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The Mass Arbitration procedures alter the process for a user's claims when that user is one of more than 50 similarly situated claimants proceeding in a coordinated fashion against Samsung.
Interpretive note: The specific content of the additional Mass Arbitration procedures in Section 5 is not visible in this excerpt and therefore cannot be characterized.
If the reader is one of more than 50 claimants asserting similar coordinated claims against Samsung, additional procedures beyond standard arbitration rules govern the reader's claims.
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The Mass Arbitration procedures alter the process for a user's claims when that user is one of more than 50 similarly situated claimants proceeding in a coordinated fashion against Samsung.
If the reader is one of more than 50 claimants asserting similar coordinated claims against Samsung, additional procedures beyond standard arbitration rules govern the reader's claims.
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