IN RE SPRINT CORP. ERISA LITIGATION.

No. 03-2202-JWL.

443 F.Supp.2d 1249 (2006)

In re SPRINT CORPORATION ERISA LITIGATION. This Order Relates to All Cases.

United States District Court, D. Kansas.

August 4, 2006.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Diane A. Nygaard, Susan F. Meagher, The Nygaard Law Firm, Leawood, KS, Robert A. Izard, Jr., Wayne T. Boulton, William Bernarduci, Schatz & Nobel, PC, Hartford, CT, for Robert K. Fries, Fran Lindholm, and Anton P. Spanier.

Gary R. Long, George E. Wolf, III, Jennifer L. Brown, Shook, Hardy & Bacon L.L.P., Kansas City, MO, for Sprint Corporation, Sprint Investment Trusts Committee, Sprint Pension & Savings Trusts Committee, Sprint Savings Plan Committee, Sprint Savings and Retirement Plan Committee, Gene M. Betts, I. Benjamin Watson, Randall T. Parker, Sprint Investment Committee, Sprint Employee Benefits Committee, J. Richard Devlin, M. Jeannine Strandjord, Arthur B. Krause, John P. Meyer, Dubose Ausley, Warren L. Batts, Ruth M. Davis, Irvine O. Hockaday, Jr., Linda Koch Lorimer, Charles E. Rice, Stewart Turley, Harold S. Hook, and Louis W. Smith.

Clayton L. Barker, Spencer Fane Britt & Browne, Kansas City, MO, for Sprint Corporation, Sprint Investment Trusts Committee, Sprint Pension & Savings Trusts Committee, Sprint Savings Plan Committee, Sprint Savings and Retirement Plan Committee, Gene M. Betts, I. Benjamin Watson, Randall T. Parker, Sprint Investment Committee, Sprint Employee Benefits Committee, J. Richard Devlin, M. Jeannine Strandjord, Arthur B. Krause, John P. Meyer, Dubose Ausley, Warren L. Batts, Ruth M. Davis, Irvine O. Hockaday, Jr., Linda Koch Lorimer, Charles E. Rice, Stewart Turley, Harold S. Hook, Louis W. Smith, William T. Esrey, Ronald T. Lemay, John Does 1-30, Fidelity Management Trust Company, Sprint's Board of Directors, Michel Bon, and Ron Sommer.

Timothy M. O'Brien, Shook, Hardy & Bacon L.L.P., Overland Park, KS, for John Does 1-30, Sprint Corporation, Sprint Investment Trusts Committee, Sprint Pension & Savings Trusts Committee, Sprint Savings Plan Committee, Sprint Savings and Retirement Plan Committee, Gene M. Betts, I. Benjamin Watson, Randall T. Parker, Sprint Investment Committee, Sprint Employee Benefits Committee, J. Richard Devlin, M. Jeannine Strandjord, Arthur B. Krause, John P. Meyer, Dubose Ausley, Warren L. Batts, Ruth M. Davis, Irvine O. Hockaday, Jr., Linda Koch Lorimer, Charles E. Rice, Stewart Turley, Harold S. Hook, Louis W. Smith, William T. Esrey, Ronald T. Lemay, Sprint's Board of Directors, and Savings Trusts Committee.

Joselyn R. Treadway Verschelden, Lawrence A. Rouse, Rouse Hendricks German May PC, Kansas City, MO, James M. Webster, III, Mark C. Hansen, Kellogg, Huber, Hansen, Todd, Evans & Figel, PLLC, Washington, DC, Michael L. Banks, Morgan Lewis & Bockius LLP, Philadelphia, PA, Nicole A. Diller, Morgan, Lewis & Bockius, LLP, San Francisco, CA, for William T. Esrey and Ronald T. Lemay.

Arthur W.S. Duff, Gary S. Tell, Michael A. Maricco, Robert N. Eccles, O'Melveny & Myers, LLP, Washington, DC, Richard N. Bien, Robyn Lyn Anderson, Lathrop & Gage, LC, Kansas City, MO, for Fidelity Management Trust Company.

Toby Crouse, Shook, Hardy & Bacon L.L.P., Overland Park, KS, for Sprint Corporation, Sprint Investment Trusts Committee, Sprint Pension & Savings Trusts Committee, Sprint Savings Plan Committee, Sprint Savings and Retirement Plan Committee, Gene M. Betts, I. Benjamin Watson, Randall T. Parker, Sprint Investment Committee, Sprint Employee Benefits Committee, J. Richard Devlin, M. Jeannine Strandjord, Arthur B. Krause, John P. Meyer, Dubose Ausley, Warren L. Batts, Ruth M. Davis, Irvine O. Hockaday, Jr., Linda Koch Lorimer, Charles E. Rice, Stewart Turley, Harold S. Hook, Louis W. Smith, Sprint's Board of Directors, Antonio E. Castanon, R. Michael Franz, Keith D. Paglusch, and William C. Prout.

Matthew C. Miller, Shook, Hardy & Bacon L.L.P., Kansas City, MO, for Sprint Corporation, Sprint Investment Trusts Committee, Sprint Pension & Savings Trusts Committee, Sprint Savings Plan Committee, Sprint Savings and Retirement Plan Committee, Gene M. Betts, I. Benjamin Watson, Randall T. Parker, Sprint Investment Committee, Sprint Employee Benefits Committee, J. Richard Devlin, M. Jeannine Strandjord, Arthur B. Krause, John P. Meyer, Dubose Ausley, Warren L. Batts, Ruth M. Davis, Irvine 0. Hockaday, Jr., Linda Koch Lorimer, Charles E. Rice, Stewart Turley, Harold S. Hook, Louis W. Smith, Savings Trusts Committee, Antonio E. Castanon, R. Michael Franz, Keith D. Paglusch, and William C. Prout.


MEMORANDUM AND ORDER

LUNGSTRUM, District Judge.

This is a putative class action involving claims of alleged breach of fiduciary duties under the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974, 29 U.S.C. §§ 1000-1461 ("ERISA"). Plaintiffs assert claims as participants in and on behalf of three different retirement savings plans against defendants Sprint Corporation, committees that participated in administering the plans and individual members...

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