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If you are a Mass Filing claimant, any applicable statute of limitations (or other applicable limitations period) shall be tolled beginning when you initiate the informal dispute resolution process...
If 25 or more claimants seek to file arbitrations raising similar claims and are represented by the same counsel...all cases must be resolved in arbitration using bellwether and, if necessary, batched proceedings...
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.
"If the parties are unable to resolve the outstanding demands during the Mediation Period...either Yelp or any remaining claimant may opt out of the arbitration process and have the demand(s) proceed in a court of competent jurisdictionExcerpt from Yelp's Terms of Service
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The clause states: “If the parties are unable to resolve the outstanding demands during the Mediation Period...either Yelp or any remaining claimant may opt out of the arbitration process and have the demand(s) proceed in a court of competent jurisdiction”
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