Coinbase Suffers Supreme Court Loss in Dogecoin Sweepstakes Arbitration Dispute

Coinbase 在狗狗币抽奖仲裁纠纷中在最高法院遭受损失

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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.

美国著名的加密货币交易所 Coinbase 在最高法院遭遇挫折，因狗狗币抽奖引发的仲裁纠纷败诉。

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

用户指责该平台存在虚假广告，声称他们被误导支付 100 美元才能参加抽奖活动。

"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：“这真是一周。有些人赢了，有些人输了。我们很高兴有机会向法院陈述我们的案件，并感谢法院对此事的考虑。”在社交媒体平台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 寻求强制执行仲裁，这是企业通常青睐的在法庭诉讼之外解决争议的程序。虽然 Coinbase 用户同意就一般争议进行仲裁，但狗狗币抽奖案却提出了法律挑战，因为一项单独的协议规定与比赛相关的争议将在加州法庭审理。这造成了用户协议的仲裁条款与竞赛的论坛选择条款之间的冲突。

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

第九巡回上诉法院做出了对 Coinbase 不利的裁决，维持了加州联邦法官的裁决。

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

在 Coinbase 对下级法院的裁决提出上诉后，最高法院于 11 月同意审理该纠纷。

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

虽然法官们没有明确认可第九巡回法院的推理，但他们一致裁定 Coinbase 败诉。

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

法院驳回了 Coinbase 的论点，即不允许其执行仲裁会导致混乱。