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NY Times auto renewal class action
- Who: The New York Times is being sued by a subscriber
- Why: She says the Times auto-renewed her subscription without her full knowledge
- Where: New York federal court
The New York Times engages in an illegal “automatic renewal” scheme with its subscription plans, a new class action lawsuit alleges.
Plaintiff Megan Perkins filed a class action lawsuit against The New York Times Company June 21 in a New York federal court, alleging deceptive trade practices and unjust enrichment.
Perkins alleges that when consumers sign up for The New York Times at the New York Times website or app, the company actually enrolls consumers in a program that automatically renews customers’ subscriptions from month-to-month or year-to-year, and results in monthly or annual charges to the consumer’s credit or debit card.
“In doing so, however, Defendant fails to provide the requisite disclosures and authorizations required to be made to North Carolina consumers,” the lawsuit states.
11 unauthorized charges, plaintiff says
The New York Times systematically violates the Autorenewal Statute by failing to present the automatic renewal offer terms in a clear manner in the contract offer, and for failing to disclose clearly how to cancel the contract, the lawsuit alleges.
As a result of the company not making the disclosures, it automatically renewed Perkins’s NYT Subscription and charged Perkins’s payment method twenty three times after she signed up for 12 months, for a total of eleven unauthorized charges amounting to $136 to Perkins’s PayPal account without her knowing consent, the lawsuit states.
Perkins is looking to represent anyone in North Carolina who incurred renewal fees in connection with a New York Times subscription.
She is seeking certification of the class action, damages, fees, costs, and a jury trial.
In 2021, The New York Times Company agreed to a $5.563 million class action settlement benefiting certain consumers whose subscriptions to the newspaper renewed automatically.
Have you been charged for an auto subscription you weren’t fully aware of? Let us know in the comments!
The plaintiff is represented by Joseph I. Marchese, Philip L. Fraietta, and Alec M. Leslie of Bursor & Fisher, P.A.
The New York Times Auto Renewal Class Action Lawsuit is Megan Perkins v. The New York Times Company, Case No. 1:22-cv-05202 in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York.
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5 thoughts onNew York Times class action claims news organization conducts auto renewal scheme
Please include me as this happened 4 years in a row.
Hulu doesn’t allow you to cancel a free trial before the trial ends, without the trial ending as well. So this particularly harms people with disabilities like ADHD who struggle to cancel subscriptions in a timely manner.
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