All legal disputes about these Terms are governed by California law and must be brought in San Francisco courts, regardless of where you are located.
If you have a dispute with Groq that falls outside arbitration (such as an IP claim), you must litigate it in San Francisco, California courts, which is costly and impractical for most users located elsewhere.
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Compare across platforms →Requiring disputes to be litigated in San Francisco creates a practical barrier for users in other states or countries who cannot easily access California courts, even for the limited categories of claims excluded from arbitration.
REGULATORY FRAMEWORK: Forum selection clauses are governed by federal common law (M/S Bremen v. Zapata, 407 U.S. 1 (1972)) and state unconscionability doctrine. California courts analyze forum selection clauses under California Code of Civil Procedure §410.10 and the reasonableness standard. California choice-of-law provisions are evaluated under the Restatement (Second) Conflict of Laws §187. EU/EEA users have mandatory consumer protection rights under Brussels I Regulation (Recast) (EU 1215/2012), which generally allows consumers to sue in their home jurisdiction — a California-exclusive forum clause may be unenforceable against EU consumers.
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