7th Circuit: Minors Not Bound By Arbitration Clause In Ancestry.Com Privacy Suit

(February 16, 2024, 3:06 PM EST) -- CHICAGO — Affirming a trial court’s denial of a motion by Ancestry.com DNA LLC to compel arbitration of a putative genetic privacy class action against it, a Seventh Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals panel on Feb. 15 found that because the minor plaintiffs were not signatories to the terms and conditions on Ancestry’s website, they were not bound by the arbitration provision to which their guardians agreed....