Details on $35 Million SiriusXM Class-Action Settlement Almost Finalized

The last details of a $35 million SiriusXM settlement of class-action lawsuits alleging violations of the Telephone Consumer Protection Act should be finalized by the month's end, said a status report (in Pacer) filed Monday in U.S. District Court in Newport News, Virginia. That settlement originally had been expected to be complete by June 10, but now a motion for preliminary approval should be ready by June 30, counsel for the plaintiffs in Hooker v. Sirius XM said. Similar federal class-action suits are filed in courts in California, Illinois and Florida. The status report said the motion for preliminary approval will include a form of proposed notice of settlement of the class plus an outline of the system architecture that the satellite radio company will require for the dialing systems of some of its call center vendors when they call mobile phones. SiriusXM in April announced it signed a memorandum of understanding to settle the suits, with the settlement having the company offering participating class members three months of its Select service for free.