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Tencent says California judge can't rely on employment case to decide arbitration in WeChat privacy case

( July 29, 2021, 19:04 GMT | Official Statement) -- MLex Summary: Tencent said in a supplemental brief that a California state judge can't rely on a case she had cited as a potential precedent to decide the Chinese Internet company's motion to have privacy law claims against its WeChat app decided through arbitration, rather than through court litigation. "There are a number of specified disputes that the WeChat [terms of service] explicitly states will proceed in court, and the WeChat TOS's 'If a court holds' clause addresses courts finding parts of the WeChat TOS unenforceable in those disputes," Tencent said in the brief. "But this case is not one of those disputes," it said.See attached document....

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