LendingTree LLC and its subsidiary QuoteWizard.com LLC failed to convince a federal appeals court to send consumer claims over a data breach affecting its cloud-services provider Snowflake Inc. to an arbitrator.
The plaintiffs weren’t bound by the arbitration agreement because the LendingTree and QuoteWizard websites didn’t provide reasonably conspicuous notice of the terms of use containing it, the US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit said Wednesday in an unsigned opinion.
LendingTree operates an online lending marketplace. QuoteWizard operates an online lead management system for insurance agents.
Under Ninth Circuit precedents, the district court properly denied the defendants’ motion …
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