Coinbase Suffers Supreme Court Loss in Dogecoin Sweepstakes Arbitration Dispute

Coinbase 在狗狗幣抽獎仲裁糾紛中在最高法院遭受損失

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Coinbase, the prominent US cryptocurrency exchange, has faced a setback in the Supreme Court, losing its arbitration dispute stemming from a Dogecoin sweepstakes.

美國著名的加密貨幣交易所 Coinbase 在最高法院遭遇挫折，因狗狗幣抽獎引發的仲裁糾紛敗訴。

Users had accused the platform of false advertising, alleging that they were misled into paying $100 to enter the sweepstakes.

用戶指責該平台存在虛假廣告，聲稱他們被誤導支付 100 美元才能參加抽獎活動。

"What a week. Some you win. Some you lose. We are grateful for having had the opportunity to present our case to the Court and appreciate the Court's consideration of this matter," said Paul Grewal, Coinbase's chief legal officer, in a post on social media platform X.

Coinbase 首席法律官 Paul Grewal 在一篇帖子中表示：“這真是一周。有些人贏了，有些人輸了。我們很高興有機會向法院陳述我們的案件，並感謝法院對此事的考慮。”在社群媒體平台X上。

Coinbase sought to enforce arbitration, a process typically favored by businesses to resolve disputes outside of court proceedings. While Coinbase users had agreed to arbitration for general disputes, the Dogecoin sweepstakes case presented a legal challenge due to a separate agreement that specified that disputes related to the contest would be heard in a California courtroom. This created a conflict between the user agreement's arbitration provision and the forum selection clause for the contest.

Coinbase 尋求強制執行仲裁，這是企業通常青睞的在法庭訴訟之外解決爭議的程序。雖然 Coinbase 用戶同意就一般爭議進行仲裁，但狗狗幣抽獎案提出了法律挑戰，因為一項單獨的協議規定與比賽相關的爭議將在加州法庭審理。這造成了使用者協議的仲裁條款與競賽的論壇選擇條款之間的衝突。

The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals ruled against Coinbase, upholding a decision made by a California federal judge.

第九巡迴上訴法院做出了對 Coinbase 不利的裁決，維持了加州聯邦法官的裁決。

The Supreme Court agreed to hear the dispute in November after Coinbase appealed the lower court's ruling.

在 Coinbase 對下級法院的裁決提出上訴後，最高法院於 11 月同意審理該糾紛。

While the justices did not explicitly endorse the Ninth Circuit's reasoning, they unanimously ruled against Coinbase.

雖然法官們沒有明確認可第九巡迴法院的推理，但他們一致裁定 Coinbase 敗訴。

The Court rejected Coinbase's argument that not allowing it to enforce arbitration would result in chaos.

法院駁回了 Coinbase 的論點，即不允許其執行仲裁會導致混亂。