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Users cannot bring claims relating to the Terms or Services in court; all such disputes are routed to binding individual arbitration with no appeal to a court on the merits.
Interpretive note: The record name references US residents, but the excerpt itself does not state a geographic limitation; the canonical claim is based solely on the excerpt language.
If you have a claim relating to the Terms or the Services, you must resolve it through final and binding individual arbitration by a single arbitrator rather than in court.
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the arbitration provider, National Arbitration and Mediation ("NAM"), shall not accept or administer any demand for arbitration and shall administratively close any arbitration unless the Party bringing such demand for arbitration can certify in writing that the terms...were fully satisfied.
Neither you nor we may elect arbitration of any claims seeking only individualized relief asserted by you or us in small claims court, so long as the action remains in that court and is not removed or appealed de novo...
either party retains the right to bring an individual action in small claims court, if the claims qualify, so long as the matter remains in such court and advances only on an individual (non-class, non-representative) basis.
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Users cannot bring claims relating to the Terms or Services in court; all such disputes are routed to binding individual arbitration with no appeal to a court on the merits.
If you have a claim relating to the Terms or the Services, you must resolve it through final and binding individual arbitration by a single arbitrator rather than in court.
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