Federal Magistrate Recommends Arbitration Of Barnes & Noble Data Privacy Class Suit

(November 27, 2017, 11:21 AM EST) -- NEW YORK — The arbitration provision in Barnes & Noble Booksellers Inc.’s (B&N) terms of use (TOU) on its website is not unconscionable and therefore must be enforced in a class complaint filed by a customer who claims that information about her online purchase of a DVD was shared with Facebook, a New York federal magistrate judge opined in a Nov. 20 report and recommendation (Melina Bernardino v. Barnes & Noble Booksellers, Inc., No. 17-4570, S.D. N.Y., 2017 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 192814)....