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This restriction prevents users from joining forces with others in arbitration, limiting each person to pursuing their claim individually unless Starbucks also consents to consolidation.
Interpretive note: The excerpt contains an ellipsis suggesting possible additional proceeding types not visible in the provided text.
Your arbitration claim cannot be combined with other people's claims, and no class or consolidated proceeding can occur, unless both you and Starbucks agree to it.
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The arbitrator may award declaratory or injunctive relief only in favor of the individual party seeking relief and only to the extent necessary to provide relief warranted by the party's individual claim.
you or the Company Parties may seek equitable relief in court for infringement or other misuse of intellectual property rights (such as trademarks, trade dress, domain names, trade secrets, copyrights, and patents).
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...
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"unless both you and we agree otherwise, an arbitrator may not consolidate more than one person's claims and may not otherwise preside over any form of class, collective, consolidated...proceeding.— Excerpt from Starbucks's Starbucks Terms of Use
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This restriction prevents users from joining forces with others in arbitration, limiting each person to pursuing their claim individually unless Starbucks also consents to consolidation.
Your arbitration claim cannot be combined with other people's claims, and no class or consolidated proceeding can occur, unless both you and Starbucks agree to it.
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