Coinbase Inc. cannot force four consumers who alleged they were defrauded in a sweepstakes over cryptocurrency into arbitration, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled Thursday.
The case is an unusual one because it involves two different agreements between consumers and Coinbase - one over its user agreement and the second over the sweepstakes.
The user agreement, signed when consumers created their Coinbase accounts, included a provision to arbitrate "a broad set of dispute...
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