A judge has ruled that a lawsuit brought by a group of Peloton members over Peloton library class purges should not be granted class-action status.
The proposed class action lawsuit was initially filed in December of 2019, and originated from the major purge of Peloton classes from the on demand library following a lawsuit from the National Music Publishers’ Association (NMPA).
The deletion of so many classes led a group of Peloton members to file a lawsuit centered around some of Peloton’s marketing at the time of an “ever growing on-demand library of fitness classes.” The group of members argued that they should not have been charged the full membership price by Peloton given the deletion of so many classes.
This week, a judge determined that the lawsuit could not be turned into a class-action trial on behalf of all Peloton members. According to Reuters:
In a 74-page decision, U.S. District Judge Lewis Liman in Manhattan said individual issues predominated over common issues affecting the many thousands of customers in the proposed class, and therefore the customers could not sue as a group.
The judge’s reasons for denying the class-action status included that not all Peloton members may have seen some of the claims about the library being “ever growing.”
Liman said the customers could not sue on a theory they were induced to pay premium prices because some might not have seen Peloton’s challenged statements. He also said the customers did not measure the damages attributable to those statements.
Although the class action status was denied, the judge did not rule on the claims made by the individual members who originally brought the suit.
This is the second win for Peloton in the courtroom in as many months. On March 30 a federal judge dismissed a class action lawsuit that had been brought about by a group of investors in 2021.
Earlier this week Peloton also announced they had settled a lawsuit brought against them by Dish Network.
You can read more about the class purge lawsuit (which is Passman et al v Peloton Interactive Inc) via Reuters.
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