Sports Warehouse Wins Arbitration Fight Over Data Breach Suits

Feb. 12, 2024, 8:52 PM UTC

Consumers who filed separate class actions against several related online sporting-goods retailers over an October 2021 data breach will have to take their claims before an arbitrator, a federal appeals court said Monday.

John Patrick, Bethany Buffington, and five other customers of Running Warehouse LLC, Wilderness Sports Warehouse LLC, Skate Warehouse LLC, and Sports Warehouse LLC challenged a district court ruling upholding the validity of a mandatory-arbitration clause in the terms of service they agreed to when making online purchases.

The plaintiffs had sufficient notice of the arbitration provision in the websites’ terms of service, and the arbitration agreement ...

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