Motion to Dismiss ‘Deceptive Pricing’ Class Action Deserves Oral Argument: SiriusXM

SiriusXM seeks oral argument on its Aug. 18 motion to dismiss the class action fraud complaint filed June 5 by plaintiffs Christopher Carovillano and Steven Brandt (see 2306060004), SiriusXM counsel Eric Stephens of Jones Day wrote U.S. District Judge Paul Engelmayer for Southern New York in Manhattan in a letter Monday (docket 1:23-cv-04723). In one of a multitude of similar class actions filed earlier this year, Carovillano and Brandt allege that SiriusXM engages in a “false advertising and deceptive pricing scheme” when it markets and promotes its music plans “at lower prices than it actually charges.”