Nearly none of those clauses are clauses I expected to write in a headline, let alone together.
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Commas are needed before coordinating conjunctions, after dependent clauses (when they precede independent clauses), and to set off appositives.
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Watch out for warrants, vesting clauses that are overly punitive, full-ratchet anti-dilution clauses and stuff like that.
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Legislators could investigate collusion and wage suppression in labor markets through noncompete clauses and unfair contractual arrangements such as arbitration clauses.
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Because there are opening clauses, flexibility clauses, in particular in the GDPR, when it comes to public health concerns, cross-border threats.
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Nike's practices included clauses in contracts prohibiting out-of-territory sales by licensees and threats to end agreements if licensees ignored the clauses.
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Nike's practices included clauses in contracts prohibiting out-of-territory sales by licensees and threats to end agreements if licensees ignored the clauses.
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Forced arbitration clauses, also known as "rip-off clauses," frequently are hidden in the fine print of "take-it-or-leave-it" agreements.
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The court found that the law allows illegal arbitration clauses to be thrown out, and that Epic Systems had precisely one of those clauses.
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A high portion of this cost is typically hedged and covered by RM clauses, but such clauses and hedges only protect for a limited period.
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But other clauses appeared to allow the material because the aluminum sheets did not catch fire immediately, and some builders heeded those less stringent clauses.
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Getting rid of these clauses has been the plaintiff-bar's top priority, and they have set about to bar these clauses through friendly federal regulations.
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When banks and credit unions include arbitration clauses in their contracts, it's because such clauses are the most pragmatic path, producing the best outcome for all.
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"We know that non-compete clauses can limit employee mobility and competition even in states where non-compete clauses are legally unenforceable," she said at the FTC workshop.
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If you're under any non-compete clauses, assignment of invention clauses, or non-disclosure agreements, then it's best to consult an attorney for personalized advice on this matter.
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Forced arbitration clauses, for instance, have become a hot-button issue at companies like Google where employees say the clauses sweep valid harassment and discrimination cases under the rug.
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Ed Taylor is the founder of Worldwide Santa Claus Network, a network for Clauses and non-Clauses committed to spreading the Christmas spirit far and wide all year long.
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A video camera caught Conyers' response: Under several clauses.
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It says that out of a combined 3,659 sentences (80,398 words) Claudette marked 401 sentences (11.0%) as containing unclear language, and 1,240 (33.9%) containing "potentially problematic" clauses or clauses providing "insufficient" information.
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The Dodd-Frank Act, which mandated the CFPB's analysis of arbitration clauses and gave the bureau the power to issue regulations on them, prohibited the use of arbitration clauses in most mortgage contracts.
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The last two cases – which were post-Concepcion cases where customers were subject to arbitration clauses even when the evidence proved that the arbitration clauses would gut consumer protection laws – were thrown out.
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This is probably a result of the forum selection clauses.
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Arbitration clauses and complex contracts are used to hobble competitors.
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As arbitration clauses have proliferated, nursing homes have embraced them.
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For less risky properties, JLL dropped clauses completely from Sept.
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Ethical committees and clauses are starting, but they don't suffice.
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In addition, there are no irrealis clauses in Mr Trump's.
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Even many Tory MPs want to limit the clauses' scope.
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How has public opinion changed in regard to conscience clauses?
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Democrats contend the contract clauses rob customers of constitutional rights.
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But such clauses increasingly show up in employment contracts, too.
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Arbitration clauses are often hidden in the contractual small print.
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The sunset clauses allow the Iranians to wait us out.
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It also included clauses allowing for delivery and potential cafes.
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There may also be similar clauses in Wanda's other loans.
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The journalists who are speaking leave long gaps between clauses.
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Two clauses of the Constitution are relevant to this question.
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The FSB said such clauses could lead to maturity mismatches.
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The bans on gag clauses passed overwhelmingly with bipartisan support.
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The rapid emergence of forced arbitration clauses is extremely dangerous.
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For example, Google changed its "exclusivity" clauses back in 2009.
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The clauses deal with the processing of public sector data.
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Araqchi said Trump's interpretation of the sunset clauses was wrong.
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Courts also seem more willing to read MAC clauses broadly.
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"That's one of the atypical clauses," the doctor says afterward.
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In the debt world, lawyers said, such clauses were unprecedented.
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"We really don't know what these clauses are," he said.
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The dispute is based on two clauses in the contract.
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Today the clauses are widespread in sports, television and advertising.
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Maybe you don't find morality clauses alarming under any circumstances.
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What reasons do companies give for using forced arbitration clauses?
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Do companies make any valid points in defending these clauses?
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Recognizing that without discussion there can be no action, the National Labor Relations Board has limited the scope of nondisparagement clauses in union shops on the theory that such restrictive clauses impede union organizing.
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Whites were given simple clauses to read (and, again, were often assisted by poll workers) while African-Americans were given serpentine, incomprehensible clauses, which had been inserted into the document for that very purpose.
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The juicier issue at play in these cases, Strauss said, is whether securities laws prohibit brokerages to abrogate customers' FINRA arbitration rights via forum selection clauses, even if those clauses contain an explicit waiver.
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These clauses, known as single limb collective action clauses, can facilitate the restructuring of debt when needed in exceptional circumstances, but Italy has raised concerns that they could increase yields on its high debt.
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The rule would ban companies from including clauses that block class action lawsuits and require companies that invoke arbitration clauses for individual disputes to submit any arbitration claims and awards to the agency for review.
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Some, including Hachette Book Group, are expanding the use of morals clauses and "author conduct" clauses in book contracts, which allow publishers to cancel book deals if the author is credibly accused of unethical behavior.
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As the clauses multiplied, so did the compliance burden on banks.
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Currently, the IBRBS has about 403,200 members, including some Mrs. Clauses.
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Ideally we can make legal clauses in contracts that offer protection.
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It was scaled back and riddled with caveats and escape clauses.
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Confidentiality clauses have been a fixture in our law for centuries.
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It is possible there are similar clauses in Wanda's other loans.
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Be careful with concessive clauses (often beginning with "though" or "while").
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It goes back to the 242s, plus some clauses added later.
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Several Santa Clauses say that they now have annual background checks.
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They can even point out contracts where key clauses are absent.
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Which is probably why they backstrap it with the arbitration clauses.
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Yet clauses seven to nine of the bill are extremely broad.
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The bar to making all non-compete clauses illegal is high.
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Ban hospitals from including anticompetitive clauses in their contracts with insurers.
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Like convoluted clauses, passive jury instructions can be hard to follow.
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Even more widespread, however, is the use of forced arbitration clauses.
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They also have reunion clauses in their contracts should they leave.
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It's rare for them to have confidentiality clauses in their bylaws.
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TM: Well there have been various clauses put in the bill.
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Pharmacy benefit managers sometimes include these clauses in contracts with pharmacies.
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The Trump administration supports banning similar clauses in Part D contracts.
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There were also many other clauses I didn't bother to read.
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Without regulatory action, binding arbitration clauses will continue to constrain consumers.
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Galilea: People would come in and see all her Santa Clauses.
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Marlena: We ended up with around 153,000 Santa Clauses in there.
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But according to the clauses of this law, we don't exist.
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Emboldened by those decisions, more and more companies adopted the clauses.
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Sixty million Americans have mandatory arbitration clauses in their employment agreements.
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The clauses cannot be included in new and renewed contracts either.
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The cases are the court's latest encounter with expansive arbitration clauses.
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Like noncompete clauses, she said the provisions led to lower wages.
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Furthermore, the terms of the clauses are often defined ridiculously widely.
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We need to make these noxious clauses optional again for everyone.
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The clauses cannot be included in new and renewed deals either.
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Impose draconian nondisclosure clauses in contracts for everyone who works there.
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Perhaps clauses on pricing or delivery conditions no longer made sense.
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Judge Preska said severability clauses don't permit courts to rewrite statutes.
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"We discussed the last of the clauses and numbers", he wrote.
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Additionally, "destination clauses" prevent buyers from selling LNG to third parties.
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Lawmakers are considering amending the law to include clauses on Iran's missile use, the sunset clauses and ballistic missile development that would trigger more sanctions to rein in malign Iranian behavior in Lebanon, Syria and elsewhere.
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Unlike noncompete clauses, which a person may sign as part of an employment contract, no-poach clauses are buried in contracts between the chains and franchisees, which are not obligated to tell workers about the provisions.
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Since the ruling, Japanese LNG importers have signed new term contracts without the clauses but it is rare that an LNG buyer has confirmed that it was able to eliminate the clauses from the existing contracts.
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Both women helped organize the 20,000-worker walkout at Google in protest of mandatory arbitration clauses in the company's contracts — the use of such clauses in settling sexual harassment claims has received widespread criticism since #MeToo.
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Usually, such clauses benefit big corporations via economies of scale — every plane ticket or hotel room booked through Expedia has one, for example — and even though "little people" can't meaningfully negotiate arbitration clauses, they can be binding.
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And it should restrict mandatory arbitration clauses in employment contracts, which require workers to give up their right to take their employers to court; such clauses were endorsed by a 5-4 Supreme Court decision in May.
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Some clauses say journalists can't be required to write native, advertiser-backed articles, and some clauses require websites to have a sharp line of demarcation between native advertising and stories and videos prepared by their news staff.
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A fifth of all American workers are covered by non-compete clauses.
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That predicament leads to perhaps the harshest aspect of today's confidentiality clauses.
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The White House version put all the effective clauses in Section 2.
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As mentioned, it attempted to force affected customers into signing arbitration clauses.
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Fake Santa Clauses being pulled by trotting robot dogs masquerading as reindeer?
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And more of its bonds than the Republic's lack "collective-action" clauses.
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Some state constitutions did mention self-defence in their gun-rights clauses.
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If that seems complicated, it is made trickier still by fiddly clauses.
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The clauses should allow workers to join together and to act collectively.
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In Fitch's opinion, these clauses provide strong incentives to prevent CIC's default.
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When morals clauses are included, they tend to be broad in scope.
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Globally, well-defined "escape clauses" are acceptable, provided they are tightly defined.
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Even clauses that are referred to as "guarantees" are not actually guaranteed.
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Nondisparagement clauses like Abbott's are "very common" in severance agreements, he said.
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Verstappen refused to be drawn on any exit clauses in his contract.
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The clauses often prohibit consumers from joining class action lawsuits as well.
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But precisely because they are contracts, arbitration clauses can be deemed unenforceable.
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The CFPB built that assumption into its rule barring mandatory arbitration clauses.
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The clauses often operate as little more than a means of intimidation.
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So it's not like Republicans are ready to rip up arbitration clauses.
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Now we're seeing them as standard clauses in so many employment contracts.
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Talks could turn to exclusivity clauses, engagement rings, and apartment-key exchanges.
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As a consequence, parties insert numerous contractual clauses to limit their liability.
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If that comes to pass, then sure: draw up non-compete clauses.
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The letter's language was brisk, addled with clauses and legalese, totally dispassionate.
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Lindsey Graham and others expressing concern about the use of arbitration clauses.
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Multiple studios are working to include morality clauses in their talent contracts.
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It's no surprise that many contracts include these clauses: They benefit employers.
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Those clauses often prohibit consumers from joining class action lawsuits as well.
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Then, in 2016, came the vote about whether to admit Mrs. Clauses.
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Few companies provide any opportunity to opt out of the arbitration clauses.
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The new rules would have blocked many schools from enforcing those clauses.
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Those clauses ban customers from seeking damages though joining class-action suits.
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We Clauses cherish planting and nurturing the seeds of goodness in youngsters.
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Those clauses ban customers from seeking damages by joining class-action suits.
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These clauses cover all sorts of legal claims — including civil rights claims.
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But they provide no protection at the federal level from noncompete clauses.
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Critics have pointed out the disadvantages of noncompete clauses to unskilled labor.
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Al Franken introduced legislation to ban noncompete clauses for low-wage workers.
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Mandatory arbitration clauses make class action suits difficult or impossible to bring.
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"We don't have any vice clauses in place," Founders Fund told Recode.
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Companies still have these clauses—and they fire people for breaking them.
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Neither of the women would agree to an interview, citing the confidentiality clauses.
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But his offence is governed by two clauses, neither of which has priority.
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Currently, the IBRBS has about 275,250 members, some of which include Mrs. Clauses.
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The clauses prohibit elected officials from accepting "emoluments" from foreign or domestic governments.
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"However" shouldn't be used after a comma to connect two clauses like this.
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The parenthetical insert, containing two independent clauses, makes this already complicated sentence impenetrable.
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In February, Google said it would end its use of forced arbitration clauses.
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The Constitution includes a few provisions that are sometimes described as "emoluments" clauses.
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Confidentiality clauses have featured in a number of high-profile sexual harassment scandals.
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For one, some victims might prefer to have confidentiality clauses in settlement agreements.
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He said that detail was cut due to clauses in the actors' contracts.
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At that rate, every U.S. citizen is bound by roughly 2.5 arbitration clauses.
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Initially, many of these companies only waived these clauses for sexual harassment claims.
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The dispute arose when some clients complained the clauses were not clearly explained.
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At large corporations, many employees have come to expect the clauses as standard.
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The Department of Education has publicly admitted that mandatory arbitration clauses harm students.
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A spokesman for the Singapore-based funder declined to comment, citing confidentiality clauses.
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If the letters "HIPAA" don't ring a bell, the clauses about privacy do.
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Warranties with arbitration clauses have become common in consumer electronics and other industries.
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The clauses also typically prohibit customers from joining together in class-action lawsuits.
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Every state should follow California's example and ban noncompete clauses from work contracts.
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The Senate bills that take privacy seriously do not contain pre-emption clauses.
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Second, Congress should bar employers from subjecting low-income workers to noncompete clauses.
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It also includes introducing "single-limb" collective action clauses for euro zone bonds.
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Auntie Anne's, Buffalo Wild Wings and Cinnabon also agreed to drop the clauses.
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Then there were the clauses that were too obscure even for Professor Wexler.
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They use machine learning to help retrieve these clauses and all their variations.
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Collins unveiled the bill going after gag clauses on Thursday along with Sens.
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"Endorsers must show their progress, prove they're working towards the clauses," Sharpe says.
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The judiciary aside, MAC clauses are most useful as leverage in renegotiating terms.
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These clauses deprive people of their day in court when they are harmed.
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The conversations largely lack dependent clauses, and have a cool rhythm of blankness.
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Argentina added so-called single-limb collective-action clauses to recently issued debt.
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The question of what violates the clauses has never been tested in court.
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She said any new EU trade deals would include clauses protecting the environment.
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The most difficult discussions will center around so-called sunset clauses, analysts say.
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But the 1973 Church Amendment, the first of these conscience clauses, is broader.
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It's estimated that more than 60 million Americans have signed such arbitration clauses.
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Beyond pure efficiency gains, the software can do some practical things like recommending missing clauses that should be in there to protect your company, or conversely find clauses in the proposed contract that might put the company at financial risk.
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The employers in those cases, supported by the Trump administration, argue that a 1925 law called the Federal Arbitration Act mandates that federal and state courts enforce arbitration clauses as written even when those arbitration clauses come with strict confidentiality requirements.
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"Most Favoured Nation" clauses in existing EU free trade agreements are a further obstacle -- if the EU offers the UK a deal on more favourable terms, other trading partners that have signed such clauses will be entitled to an equivalent upgrade.
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Licensing and noncompete clauses hamper the competitive nature of labor markets and lower economic mobility, something the right and left can agree should be rectified by relaxing licensing standards and narrowing the scope of noncompete clauses (especially for working-class employees).
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Some publishers have canceled contracts and pulped books, and many have expanded the use of morals clauses and "author conduct" clauses in book contracts, which allow publishers to cancel book deals if the author is credibly accused of unethical behavior.
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Those clauses were removed in the 1960s, leaving no mention of aboriginals at all.
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But the two clauses that caused the most hubbub are articles 113 and 13.
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"These companies have been very effective at wielding their arbitration clauses," Liss-Riordan said.
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Why Writing Well Matters and flesheaters, zombies and predatory clauses were on the agenda.
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According to the CFPB, its proposal would not stop companies from using arbitration clauses.
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The third contains at least six clauses, rendering it almost unreadable on any platform.
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Companies said its increased royalties and shortened stability clauses would make their projects unprofitable.
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And many of those anti-vice clauses persist, even with the mainstreaming of cannabis.
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Scalia said that prefatory clauses can announce a law's purpose—but cannot restrict it.
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Settlements with gag-clauses make it yet harder to give a jury more context.
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I support legislation that will remove gag clauses and urge the Senate to act.
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Second, Trump didn't like that certain restrictions on Iran's nuclear program have sunset clauses.
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It canceled existing stability clauses in contracts and raised royalty rates across the board.
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No one else responded to my queries on the Securities Act forum selection clauses.
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A decade ago, some schools were inserting coaching-change-out clauses into their letters.
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All contracts will include clauses to hold companies liable for any corruption, he added.
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Blaine clauses are named for the prominent 85033th century federal politician James G. Blaine.
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But Blaine clauses can be used as weapons to attack any unpopular religious denomination.
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First, the rulebook: an 88-page tome swollen with contradictory clauses and footnoted interpretations.
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And in some cases, they were bound by arbitration clauses not to say anything.
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The CFPB is currently finalizing rules on arbitration clauses, payday lending and debt collecting.
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Arrangements to withhold programming, known as "most favored nation" clauses, are common but secret.
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The contents of these clauses, which detail how to handle unforeseen events, can vary.
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But Darnold's representatives reportedly wanted some of the offsetting clauses and forfeiture language removed.
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Go deeper: A bipartisan pushback on noncompete agreements More doctors have non-compete clauses
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Insurers may seek to keep rates lower by adding exclusion clauses or capping payouts.
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Such clauses have thwarted dozens of class-action cases before they gained any momentum.
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While he notes that confidentiality clauses limit what can be disclosed by the regulator.
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Nationally more than nine out of 10 credit unions don't use these onerous clauses.
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So what are the real consequences of banning forced arbitration and class action clauses?
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While most small institutions do not use arbitration clauses, they do file group lawsuits.
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Forum selection clauses, as you know, are not a new phenomenon in corporate law.
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The Supreme Court settles matters related to that amendment's free speech and religion clauses.
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The Pharmaceutical Care Management Association (PCMA), which represents PBMs, doesn't condone using gag clauses.
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That means those clauses — which preclude customers from suing in court — are still permitted.
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Beijing had fired back, calling the car investigation an abuse of national security clauses .
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An estimated 60 million American workers have signed arbitration clauses — many without realizing it.
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An estimated 203 million American workers have signed arbitration clauses — many without realizing it.
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Second, Trump doesn't like that certain restrictions on Iran's nuclear program have sunset clauses.
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The main sticking points in fixed LNG supply contracts are "take or pay" clauses forcing buyers to pay for cargoes even if they don't need them, "destination clauses" preventing buyers from selling on cargoes, and an oil-link to the price of LNG.
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The firm has turned over documents to various congressional committees for the last two years, providing documents to lawmakers probing Russian election meddling and answering requests for information about possible violations of the anti-corruption clauses in the constitution, known as emoluments clauses.
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When these clauses were validated by the Delaware courts in 2012, they became virtually ubiquitous.
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The commission points out that such stopgap clauses have consistently been repealed in recent years.
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Oftentimes strict "morality clauses" forbidding pregnancy were written into their contracts, explain Bianco and Johns.
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"These clauses depress wages and deny workers opportunities to find a better job," she wrote.
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In 1992, 2% of nonunionized employers used arbitration clauses in contracts, according to Justice Ginsburg.
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The clauses are recent additions to many contracts, including those for cellphones and nursing homes.
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The buyers have insisted on sticking with the old clauses, according to five trading sources.
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Fitch does not discount the possibility of such clauses being included in its other borrowings.
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The ex post facto clauses of Article I, Sections 9 and 10, denounce retroactive legislation.
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It represents the first time federal judges have considered such clauses concerning a sitting president.
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Lawsuits like this one were what these "safe harbor" clauses were meant for, they wrote.
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This is an overly restrictive reading of the Emoluments Clauses and the words contained therein.
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Clauses and elves who visit disaster-affected areas and donate toys to children in need.
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Blaine's amendment failed to pass, but Protestant majorities wrote similar clauses into most state constitutions.
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By putting different probabilities on how stringently various clauses of the TPP would be enforced.
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But the British company has now agreed that it will no longer apply these clauses.
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The group argues Trump's executive order violates the Constitution's due process and equal protection clauses.
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It is a case built for Gorsuch who has always interpreted the religious clauses broadly.
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He also plans to review of all laws to remove clauses that discriminate against women.
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The Accommodation Association of Australia (AAA) has lobbied for those contractual clauses to be removed.
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And yet, forced arbitration clauses and class-action bans have become ubiquitous in consumer contracts.
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The buyers asserted the clauses to justify not completing their deals because of adverse events.
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Canceling future series can be costly, though, with most contracts containing seven-figure buyout clauses.
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Many states added gift clauses to their constitutions in the mid-to-late 19th century.
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Without model clauses, it is typically illegal to store EU citizen's data outside of Europe.
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Bridgewater, like many financial services firms, includes noncompete clauses in some of its employment contracts.
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Instead, ripoff clauses force consumers to seek redress in private arbitration, on an individual basis.
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Options include leaving the agreement in force provisionally, or drafting exemption clauses for the Netherlands.
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You and I both signed some very onerous moral clauses in our most recent contract.
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There are plenty of complex terms, clauses, provisions and other conditions written into investment agreements.
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Prior investors had antidilution clauses written into their investment agreements with the Internet of Wings.
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Carlson became a vocal proponent for the elimination of forced arbitration clauses in employment contracts.
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It's "the strongest evidence yet Donald Trump is violating constitutional anti-corruption clauses," she writes.
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Arbitration clauses have derailed claims of financial gouging, discrimination in car sales and unfair fees.
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"Noncompete" and "no poach" clauses, notoriously, restrict the mobility of workers and depress their wages.
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These cases have made it so the use of forced arbitration clauses can grow unhindered.
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So they would build in these things into these contracts called most favorite nation clauses.
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There must be some "play in the joints" between the two religion clauses, he concluded.
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Arbitration clauses in employment contracts are a recent innovation, but they have become quite common.
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Every Christmas hundreds more are hired to spread holiday cheer as elves and Santa Clauses.
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But nowadays, most such clauses involve an element of force, because they've become so ubiquitous.
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This balancing of rights and values was seen even more explicitly in the religion clauses.
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New clauses in debt contracts, they say, would make its bonds less attractive to investors.
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Forced arbitration clauses are a predatory consumer practice written into the fine print of contracts.
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Executive contracts with noncompete clauses typically include lucrative buyout provisions and protections from arbitrary treatment.
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If they cancel supplies, payment is still due under so-called "take-or-pay" clauses.
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Nor is it clear how vigorously it will enforce Voting Rights Act clauses that remain.
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Morality clauses may be relatively new to mainstream publishing, but they have a long history.
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Florida, where some of the wealthiest Americans claim residency, does not allow in terrorem clauses.
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Banks are adjusting contracts with "Brexit clauses" to protect themselves if the separation is chaotic.
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Agreements often reflect standard employment terms like salary, vesting, vacation policies, and non-compete clauses.
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It's why companies have arbitration clauses, so that nobody ever finds out their dirty laundry.
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These agreements typically include clauses on intellectual property, prohibited use, and termination, among many others.
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After a lengthy empirical study proved, beyond doubt, that forced arbitration clauses harmed consumers and enabled banks to break the law and get away with it, the CFPB has issued a rule banning forced arbitration clauses with class action bans in financial services contracts.
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" He added: "The no-trade clauses are worth a lot of money to players and teams.
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Several companies — including Microsoft, Uber, and Lyft — have dropped forced arbitration clauses from sexual harassment claims.
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Later, an Amazon spokesperson confirmed that at least some contractors have arbitration clauses in their contracts.
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The agency has therefore proposed prohibiting mandatory arbitration clauses for most consumer financial products and services.
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Stability clauses guarantee that the terms of an oil contract stay the same throughout its life.
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For that reason, the extension contained clauses obliging Britain to maintain "sincere cooperation" as a member.
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After months of talks, the Polish government agreed to amend the law, deleting the criminal clauses.
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Standard Contract Clauses provide important safeguards to ensure that Europeans' data are protected once transferred overseas.
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Talks to amend that deal, and in particular its clauses regarding cars, began on January 5th.
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Some states don't enforce n0n-compete clauses against doctors, and others place limits on the contracts.
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The drawbacks of non-compete clauses are all the more worrying because of today's business climate.
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ICBank did not answer written questions from Reuters, and neither did Union Bank, citing confidentiality clauses.
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Mandatory-arbitration clauses are increasingly paired with bans on class-action suits by groups of employees.
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Additionally, clauses were included to give a legal framework to a new super anti-corruption department.
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Bankers are worried about cross-default implications due to clauses in Abraaj's debt, said two sources.
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For all the other covenants, clauses and contractual agreements, find a good lawyer and get venturing.
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The city's contracts with third parties that connect its network will also include net neutrality clauses.
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It also includes clauses calling for the "convergence" of military and civilian research into nuclear energy.
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Life insurance policies generally have "suicide clauses" stipulating that insurers won't pay benefits in such cases.
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Lawmakers have found a way around this by attaching emergency clauses to all sorts of legislation.
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Google has abused its market dominance by imposing restrictive clauses in contracts with third-party websites.
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His attorneys argued the case should be dismissed, saying his prosecution violated separation-of-powers clauses.
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Notably, that system seems to violate a number of clauses in the platforms' various developer policies.
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It gives you the opportunity to renew the lease and tweak the clauses in your partnerships.
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Nor has Congress ever said that private plaintiffs can sue over alleged violations of the clauses.
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Banks — not all of which use mandatory arbitration clauses — may understand that concept better than most.
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Since then, seven of the banks involved in the class actions have adopted mandatory arbitration clauses.
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Go-it-alone clauses forbid students from joining with other people in group or class actions.
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In early 2018, Microsoft and Uber eliminated their mandatory-arbitration clauses for workers who experienced harassment.
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Prospective patients do not have the necessary information to make a decision about signing the clauses.
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Colorado, Florida, Illinois, Maine and Tennessee have similar refusal clauses that do not specifically mention pharmacists.
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But DePalma insists on contractual clauses that give him oversight of the management of his specimens.
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And of 44 large banks analyzed this year, almost three-fourths used the clauses, Pew found.
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Weah described these clauses as "unnecessary, racist and inappropriate" for a Liberia in the 21st century.
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Oil-linked contracts with restrictive destination and other clauses will do little to develop the market.
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When I was in Prague, I went to a factory there that made Russian Santa Clauses.
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Questionable contracts could include hidden out-clauses, or non-transparent language around payment deadlines, for example.
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The clauses, she and many experts say, allow for more sexual harassment to take place undetected.
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The legislation will "completely end these unjust gag clauses once and for all," Mr. Trump said.
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JPMorgan — the country's largest bank — is far from alone in increasing the use of arbitration clauses.
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Derivatives exchanges say that halting trading could trigger contractual clauses with the potential to generate defaults.
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Arbitration clauses have become extremely popular in agreements between companies and consumers — and for good reason.
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He can contradict himself within separate clauses of a single sentence, then lie about the contradiction.
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"The Emoluments Clauses of the Constitution exist to prevent exactly this kind of corruption," he continued.
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Advocates and opponents of school choice have tussled for decades over the validity of these clauses.
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These include the legal nature of collective action clauses that would simplify future sovereign debt restructurings.
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Congress followed suit, canceling all clauses in public and private contracts that allowed payment in gold.
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I still see those branching sentence diagrams in my head when I am constructing subordinate clauses.
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"I believe that the "single limb" (clauses) reduce debt costs rather than increasing them," Visco said.
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Standard Contractual Clauses provide important safeguards to ensure that Europeans data are protected once transferred overseas.
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That's why it's essential that Congress leaves in place the CFPB's rule against rip-off clauses.
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MLB Network reported that the deal is worth close to $3 million, plus undisclosed incentive clauses.
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"Most forced arbitration clauses do not go into much detail about what they cover," she said.
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Last May the Irish data protection commissioner said it was referring standard contractual clauses (SCCs) — sometimes referred to as "model contract clauses" — to Ireland's High Court to seek a referral to Europe's top court, the CJEU, for a definitive ruling on the legality of the mechanism.
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Binding arbitration clauses have been common for decades, whether buying a car or joining a membership club like Costco (COST), but the proliferation of apps and e-commerce means that such clauses now cover millions of everyday commercial transactions, from buying groceries to getting to the airport.
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The CFPB's data tell us that while 53 percent of credit card issuers use arbitration clauses today, nothing in the data demonstrates that the 47 percent that do not to use arbitration clauses have fewer compliance issues, behave better, or treat their customers better in meaningful ways.
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This is permitted under the terms of these clauses, which allow the company to waive the requirement.
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For now, the one existing loophole is Equifax's opt-out provision — another common element of arbitration clauses.
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Chevron, in which Delaware Chancery Court okayed forum selection clauses for shareholder litigation against corporate board members.
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Enria said that contractual clauses may need to be inserted into debt contracts to address this uncertainty.
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There were also other clauses in the agreement which made waiting too long to go public prohibitive.
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That year, regulators introduced new rules stipulating that European government bond contracts contain collective action clauses (CACs).
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The Foreign Emoluments and Domestic Emoluments clauses ban those in public office from receiving cash or gifts.
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That investor, however, noted that they had never seen clauses that directly address issues around human rights.
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Mandatory arbitration clauses, frequently inserted into contracts, require employees and others to waive their right to sue.
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Sky has agreed it will no longer apply clauses that required NBCUniversal, Sony Pictures and Warner Bros.
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So how can you ignore these clauses and start with political or military negotiations over a ceasefire?
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Under Monday's ruling, should contracts at such companies include mandatory arbitration clauses, such cases wouldn't be possible.
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The result of those pressures is insistence upon confidentiality clauses that are part of larger settlement agreements.
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Most people have never seen one of these confidentiality clauses, and would be stunned if they did.
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Such forced arbitration clauses are common in service agreements, and have been held up repeatedly in court.
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Many contracts, the bank went on, lack "fallback" clauses setting out which rate applies once LIBOR goes.
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Credit card terms of service generally include clauses to allow anonymized collection, but legislation could change that.
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The clauses generally prohibit US officials from accepting "emoluments," a term that generally refers to financial benefits.
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The parts of the contract the EU objected to were a number of "most-favored-nation" clauses.
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Weak inspection regime, no material handed over to the west, and sun set clauses at the end.
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It's hard to know how these cases are resolved, since they are settled under strict confidentiality clauses.
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David: I think he's saying—Keenan: Well, certain news organizations have written indemnification clauses in employee contracts.
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Some of the debt already has clauses to acknowledge that EU regulators could also write them down.
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Clauses that were dropped after political wrangling would have enshrined in law establishment of Jewish-only communities.
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One of the sources also said there were issues about Orcel's start date and non-competition clauses.
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The Consumer Finance Protection Bureau has proposed a ban on such clauses that prohibit class-action lawsuits.
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Sukuk issued by Maybank Indonesia, BRI Syariah and Bank Jambi include such clauses, according to Fitch Ratings.
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Cross-cancellation clauses, however, have made it difficult for Macri to terminate the largest projects, said Uriburu.
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It cited eight sections where it had objections, mainly clauses that were no longer relevant or necessary.
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Players are given no-trade clauses which impact the entire market, but nobody knows who has what.
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The popularity around banning gag clauses comes as anger surges about the rising cost of prescription drugs.
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Mandatory-arbitration clauses already are prohibited in mortgage contracts, by the 2010 Dodd-Frank financial reform act.
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Some clauses of the original deal have been set aside, due to opposition from Canada and others.
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With gag clauses gone, it could also compare the list prices for your prescriptions at local pharmacies.
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The CFPB earlier this month proposed a rule banning forced arbitration clauses in contracts for financial products.
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The magazine did not name the sources cited in the story but the settlements involved nondisclosure clauses.
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Trump and many Republicans want to overwrite these so-called "sunset clauses" and make the restrictions permanent.
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Such clauses require customers to settle disagreements through a private arbitration process, rather than in a court.
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But managers in Shenzhen had already signed a deal, which Anyuan claimed contained clauses promising the sale.
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"Until we resolve this ... we (ought) not to have any more agreements" including ISDS clauses, he said.
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Arbitration clauses are meant to protect the company or employer, and don't expose companies for gender discrimination.
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The Senate has already passed a bill that would ban gag clauses in Medicare Part D plans.
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In 2015, the Court again upheld the supremacy of binding arbitration clauses in DirecTV, Inc. v. Imburgia.
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But, he noted, Microsoft has contractual clauses requiring pre-dispute arbitration for a small number of employees.
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From the Chomskyan perspective, this stacking of clauses is one of the fundamental traits of universal grammar.
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Perhaps the most important of these clauses — mandatory arbitration — appears on about half of credit card agreements.
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Other examples might include the use of independent and dependent clauses, gerunds, absolute phrases and participial phrases.
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Jimmy John's discontinued this practice in response to public outcry and litigation, but noncompete clauses remain ubiquitous.
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But the Justice Department is likely to quickly appeal the ruling on the so-called emoluments clauses.
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The Supreme Court, compounding the problem, once again upheld the enforceability of mandatory arbitration clauses in May.
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The clauses prohibit a cashier at one Panera location, for example, from working at another Panera location.
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Other acquirers also will be revisiting their contracts, most significantly the "material adverse change" clauses, or MACs.
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Microsoft's policy change was largely symbolic because the company rarely used arbitration clauses in its employment agreements.
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Arbitration, a common practice among technology companies, largely happens behind closed doors and can involve confidentiality clauses.
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That's because annuities are often with mandatory arbitration clauses in their contracts, preventing wronged consumers from suing.
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In many of their contracts, digital workers have insisted on what might be called journalistic integrity clauses.
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Conor Dougherty, who covers economics for The Times, talks about how noncompete clauses keep workers locked in.
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The FTC had urged buyers to revise existing contracts to remove the clauses as quickly as possible.
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Nor should those lawyers, Chipotle said, benefit from their gamesmanship once the employees' arbitration clauses are upheld.
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Tehran is patiently waiting until the sunset clauses "set" and it can quickly produce a nuclear weapon.
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The appellate panels in those cases held that contractual forum selection clauses superseded FINRA's mandatory arbitration rule.
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The 27 would also demand similar clauses for international maritime transport and other areas, the document showed.
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Parents appealed over whether the Montana court decision violated the U.S. Constitution's religion or equal protection clauses.
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The clauses do this by denying consumers the right to take companies that harm them to court.
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The buyers pointed to their MAC clauses to justify not completing the deals because of adverse events.
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Critics claim the hotel is a hotbed for potential violations of anti-corruption clauses in the Constitution.
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The group alleged the contract's noncompete and confidentiality clauses illegally discouraged employees from exercising their labor rights.
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Opt-out clauses were added to player contracts this season, but few are likely to use them.
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Judges have consistently upheld the clauses, regardless of whether the people signing them understood what they were forfeiting.
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Subit noted in an email that there is a "significant variety" in forced-arbitration clauses in employment contracts.
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An Amazon spokesperson confirmed to Gizmodo in May that some contractors do have arbitration clauses in their contracts.
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Forced arbitration clauses would prevent women from taking their company to court over sexual harassment, assault or discrimination.
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At issue is whether Trump is violating the anti-corruption passages in the Constitution called the emoluments clauses.
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The lawsuit aims to invalidate parts of the settlement, claiming the nondisclosure and non-disparagement clauses are illegal.
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The use of pre-dispute mandatory arbitration clauses in terms of use have become standard in many industries.
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In addition, the new ownership structure will not trigger any change of control clauses over Global Switch's bonds.
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Al Baker also said he would keep exercising cancellation clauses on deliveries of A320neo jets after engine problems.
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"A bank could go back to the loan documentation to trigger prepayments based on illegality clauses," he said.
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More recently, the U.S. Department of Education finalized rules barring the clauses in contracts for for-profit colleges.
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Farrell says that historically two factors have dampened sexual harassment litigation in tech: job mobility and arbitration clauses.
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Because Venezuela's debt lacks these clauses, any workout is subject to being sideswiped by litigation in New York.
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The genius transitioned seamlessly between ideas, concepts, and sentence clauses without signalling that he was changing the subject.
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But companies also can use arbitration clauses to put up barriers that disadvantage consumers and employees, Sternlight said.
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Mr. Elliott gamely fields every one, moving around the clauses, to relay the same bland recitation of facts.
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Federal lawmakers could act, too — say, by amending the Wagner Act to prohibit confidentiality clauses in harassment settlements.
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Lawyers can then tinker with it further to recognise more obscure clauses, or even those in different languages.
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They have shaped deregulation and written clauses into the tax bill that pass costs from shareholders to society.
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By The Economist's count, 25 of the 35 countries in the Americas have constitutions with equal-treatment clauses.
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Arbitration clauses, in which customers and staff forfeit the right to pursue class actions, have become more common.
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Congress has already banned mandatory arbitration clauses for mortgages and contracts involving members of the military, he said.
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All kinds of businesses—including tech companies—have long compelled employees and customers to sign forced arbitration clauses.
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It was maintenance issues, lack of familiarity in terms of what some of the clauses were at times.
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"Perhaps even more concerning is the clause posted above the two aforementioned clauses, relating to "filming or recording.
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Others include clauses of non-discrimination to competitors in the sale of information and strict corporate governance standards.
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In practice, these clauses make it nearly impossible for customers to get justice when corporations break the law.
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Sponsorship agreements with athletes typically include clauses that reduce payments if they do not reach performance-based targets.
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That's all well and good, and a welcome development, but the meat is in the last three clauses.
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Most fertility patients sign off on standard clauses that shield clinics from liability for any reason, even negligence.
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Two clauses connected by a comma, the "comma splice", is jarring in good writing; people should avoid it.
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This kicked in "acceleration clauses"; debt that would otherwise have been due in years became payable within days.
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That is a minuscule fraction of the tens of millions of Americans whose financial contracts include arbitration clauses.
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While Verstappen has a Red Bull deal to the end of 2020, performance get-out clauses may apply.
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" He added, "What I'm able to do is thread the listener through sentences with lots of subordinate clauses.
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Some — including Fastenal — noted that the have inflation clauses in some of their contracts that will protect them.
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The White House is demanding the elimination of these clauses, while Iran and European signatories oppose their removal.
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They can contain disadvantageous indemnity or arbitration clauses, or provisions that contradict the individual's general power of attorney.
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"The President's interpretation of the limited meaning of the Emoluments Clauses cannot be the correct one," Messitte wrote.
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Federal courts have long been divided on whether U.S-based companies can claim damages under different FSIA clauses.
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The two bills passed on Tuesday ban the use of these clauses in private and public health plans.
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The bonds will benefit from negative pledge and change of control clauses but not from any financial covenants.
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Visitors to the parks are often asked to waive their right to sue by signing forced arbitration clauses.
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It's past time to prohibit the "ripoff clauses" that prevent consumers from enforcing their most basic legal rights.
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The complaint alleges USAG attempted to silence Maroney through the confidentiality and non-disparagement clauses of the agreement.
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"Standard Contractual Clauses provide important safeguards to ensure that Europeans' data are protected once transferred overseas," he added.
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The music unfolds in what seemed like clauses or thoughts, much the way Mr. Salonen had described it.
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Standard Contract Clauses remain valid, and Facebook has other legal methods in place to transfer data between countries.
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S. President Bill Clinton when it voted to amend clauses in the PLO's charter that advocated Israel's destruction.
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Lobbyists for pharmacy benefit managers did not fight the legislation and suggested that gag clauses were dying out.
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The senators also call for an end to mandatory nondisclosure agreements and non-compete clauses in employment contracts.
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Richard Blumenthal (D-CT) would ban businesses from including mandatory arbitration clauses in contracts with employees and consumers.
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The city responded that the agency was not entitled to rewrite government contracts to eliminate anti-discrimination clauses.
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CBS had no comment on the issue of indemnifying ex-employees who signed nondisclosure agreements with nondisparagement clauses.
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Many types of franchise businesses impose the clauses, but they may be most prevalent in the restaurant industry.
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We've determined it can be your dream Amendment and have as many parts and clauses as we want.
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Non-compete clauses dictate where and when a former employee can work after leaving a place of employment.
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It bars colleges from including in enrollment agreements clauses requiring disputes to go to arbitration, rather than litigation.
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It could also help fellow dog owners who had trouble finding car rentals because of no-pet clauses.
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There are various "Oath Clauses" — three in the Constitution, several statutory and one in Senate Rules of Impeachment.
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The clauses restrict the ability of federal official to accept benefits, or "emoluments," from foreign or state governments.
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California law prohibits noncompete clauses, contributing to the inveterate poaching with which the state's technology industry was founded.
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The clauses, often slipped into the fine print, waive the student's right to participate in class action lawsuits.
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Indemnity clauses in their contracts usually require investors to prove they acted with "gross negligence" — a high hurdle.
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Richard Blumenthal (D-CT), would ban businesses from including mandatory arbitration clauses in contracts with employees and consumers.
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Support from creditors holding 75 percent of the bond will be needed to activate the collective action clauses.
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A House Democrat is calling on Airbnb to stop using forced arbitration clauses in its contracts with customers.
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The potential fallout has some banks inserting clauses into new contracts to guard against a no-deal exit.
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Now workers who sign arbitration clauses with class-action waivers can only file claims individually through private arbitration.
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Such NDA clauses are quite common, Rodriguez said, even in workplaces that may not have traditionally required them.
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But a growing trend of arbitration clauses in contracts is effectively silencing many of the women she represents.
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If the BuzzwordCoin contract has non-transactional contractual clauses — that is, a functionality that should be regularly called by any party for tasking like computing and updating cached statistics in the contract — we can specify that the miner performing those clauses receives coins from an inflation or shared gas pool.
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Timex had (being watchmakers) insisted the movie must begin on-time and had included such clauses in their contract.
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An Amazon spokesperson said the company doesn't have mandatory arbitration clauses for its employees, and that it never has.
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But Finance Minister Ali Hassan Khalil, speaking to local media, said "all the clauses and articles" had been agreed.
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Their proposed solution is simple: ban these clauses, a move that will potentially cost the industry billions of dollars.
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Rates for professional Santa Clauses vary widely, depending on where you live and the type of gigs you take.
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They can also trigger co-tenancy clauses that allow smaller tenants to exit their leases, or get rent concessions.
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It's also typical to see term sheets that include full-ratchet anti-dilution protection and most-favored-nation clauses.
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He literally wrote the book on the lost clauses of our Constitution and how they protect our fundamental liberties.
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The answer to this is for contracts to have proper "fallback" clauses which specify what happens when LIBOR disappears.
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This will likely trigger the cross-default clauses of USD1.2 billion in senior notes, potentially adding to repayment pressures.
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This can trigger the cross-default clauses in the USD1.2 billion in senior notes, potentially adding to repayment pressure.
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As a 2015 investigative series in The New York Times illustrated, the use of arbitration clauses is becoming widespread.
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Here she was squeaky clean on the Disney Channel, all types of moral clauses and just intensity around behavior.
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I don't know why, other than contracts and those sunset clauses, but eventually, they have to offer a Netflix.
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"Parties (who import LNG) have intimated their frustration with such clauses," said Nandakumar Ponniya of law firm Baker & McKenzie.
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A third factor, Mr Liberman has found, is "irrealis" clauses, those that mention a hypothetical or currently untrue statement.
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However, the legal links are limited, with no sovereign-guaranteed debt and no cross-default clauses with the sovereign.
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And also by setting limits on what developers can do with the data, as the clauses detailed above show.
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Our fights in interpreting the Constitution, like the fights embodied in so many of the Constitution's clauses, were inevitable.
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These clauses are the reason the authors of the letter are opting, for the time being, to remain anonymous.
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The lawsuit wants to invalidate parts of the settlement however, claiming the nondisclosure and non-disparagement clauses are illegal.
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He has criticized the agreement's "sunset clauses," under which some restrictions on Iran's nuclear program would expire over time.
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"I'm a believer in sunset clauses when things are set up to be temporary," said Canada's Ambassador David MacNaughton.
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They are willing to tackle the sunset clauses allowing, for example, curbs on uranium enrichment to lapse over time.
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First, changes to inflation indexing and the sunsetting of some clauses would hit the poor in the long term.
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The Economic Policy Institute estimates some 60 million American workers are subject to mandatory arbitration clauses in their jobs.
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Wells Fargo is expected to be in the crosshairs when Clinton discusses how she would curb mandatory arbitration clauses.
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The Emoluments Clauses are two distinct provisions in the Constitution designed to guard against corruption of the chief executive.
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This has actually simplified the accounting, as exclusivity clauses eliminate the need to shop shows to the highest bidder.
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This could trigger the cross-default clauses for the USD1.2 billion in senior notes, and add to repayment pressure.
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The agency said the clauses prevent consumers who have been wronged from receiving justice and compensation through the courts.
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Indeed, the case against the Blaine clauses is stronger in some ways than the case against the travel orders.
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I think the cap has an impact, just like no-trade clauses and all this fake loser-point parity.
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And Republicans may wish to re-insert a couple clauses they were forced to remove due to Senate rules.
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It follows in the footsteps of Jordan and Tunisia, which annulled their "marry-the-rapist" clauses in recent weeks.
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Most Asian long-term supply contracts contain "destination clauses" which prevent buyers from on-selling LNG to third parties.
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The government is concerned that Eletrobras' debt ratings could be cut as a result, triggering early debt repayment clauses.
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CREW wants its suit to establish, for the first time, a private right of action within the Emoluments Clauses.
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Starting July 1, schools that participate in the federal Direct Loan program must remove these clauses from their contracts.
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It would not apply to arbitration clauses tucked into contracts for cellphone service, car rentals, nursing homes or employment.
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The change was sparked by research by Princeton University economists that found such clauses hinder worker mobility and compensation.
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The Department of Education, which is expected to issue rules on this matter soon, should ban the clauses outright.
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A growing number of firms, emboldened by favourable Supreme Court rulings, have adopted clauses that limit class-action suits.
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It needs to exploit flexibility clauses to avoid being censured by the commission over its growing structural budget deficit.
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The CFPB rule would have barred banks and credit card companies from writing "forced arbitration" clauses into customer contracts.
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Shopping around may enable you to dodge consumer-unfriendly "mandatory arbitration clauses," according to a new report from CreditCards.com.
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The two independent clauses "I went running" and "I saw a duck" could instead be separated by a period.
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The regulator also wants to end contractual clauses that tie clients to a bank for a range of services.
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Those clauses create an enforceable contract and require New Jersey to make certain annual contributions to public pension funds.
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Brexit minister Stephen Barclay said possible options to resolve the issue included time limits, exit clauses and technological solutions.
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In two "emoluments clauses," the Constitution forbids the president from taking money from individual states or from foreign governments.
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The case first arose after several Spaniards said that banks had hidden the floor clauses in their mortgage contracts.
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The deal's covenants were also amended, with a 10% call at 103 and portability clauses removed from the documents.
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Following are some of the key clauses from the Brexit deal's so-called "protocol" on Ireland and Northern Ireland.
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These would cover binding corporate rules within multinationals, model clauses between companies or requests to people for their consent.
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One of the clauses in the law which raised questions among U.S. officials had to do with "Jewish settlement".
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Democrats dismissed those arguments, claiming arbitration clauses were a tool for financial institutions to skip court and avoid accountability.
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Under Trump, it's moved to roll back some regulations on payday lenders and a ban on forced arbitration clauses.
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Both companies, in the face of corporate scandals, used arbitration clauses to try to quash legal challenges from customers.
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Clauses that keep customers out of the courts have caused reputational problems for Wall Street before, and will again.
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These clauses serve no lawful business purpose when workers do not receive substantial training, while they cause significant hardship.
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The Village, like many other evangelical churches, uses a written membership agreement containing legal clauses that protect the institution.
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The Kawasaki contract, he added, includes clauses that assess a penalty should the manufacturer fail to meet the schedule.
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No court has interpreted what the clauses mean, and no previous president has ever been sued for violating them.
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Almost one in four nonunionized workers are subject to clauses that bar them from pursuing class actions in arbitration.
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The emoluments clauses of the Constitution prohibit federal officials from accepting financial benefits from foreign governments without congressional approval.
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In today's show, we discuss how noncompete clauses — once limited to senior executives — are gaining power over American workers.
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He added that the company's debt covenants have no clauses requiring an early repayment in case of a delisting.
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Poll after poll shows Americans hate forced arbitration clauses that take away their rights to bring a class action.
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"There is substantial evidence of overuse and misuse of these clauses," the White House said in a fact sheet.
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The US wants an automatic resumption of sanctions if Iran starts certain nuclear activities once those sunset clauses expire.
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The case stems from a complaint against clauses in Facebook's data contracts, brought by European privacy advocate Max Schrems.
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Journalists have drawn attention to several vaguely-defined clauses within the new law that they say threaten free speech.
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Rip-off clauses in employment contracts can stop justice for systemic wrongdoing in the workplace, including for sexual harassment.
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In the aftermath of the litigation, seven of the banks involved have adopted arbitration clauses to their contracts. video
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Exclusion and cooperation clauses in many cyberinsurance policies expressly prohibit businesses from paying such digital ransoms without pre-approval.
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Thanks to that stringency, and a series of pro-business Supreme Court rulings, the clauses have spread like kudzu.
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Team sponsors could take that idea a step further, by adding ethics clauses to all of their player contracts.
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Brands argue that IP clauses are a necessary legal defenseRobinson acknowledged there are unethical people in the marketing world.
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At that meeting, the parliament voted in favor of amending clauses in the PLO's charter that advocated Israel's destruction.
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"Article 18683, Section 3, Clauses 6 and 7: "The Senate shall have the sole Power to try all Impeachments.
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Many states have begun targeting so-called gag clauses in pharmacy benefit managers' contracts, which have become highly controversial.
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Wells Fargo Chief Executive Officer John Stumpf recently said he did not expect the bank to waive the clauses.
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Senate Democrats are calling on ITT Technical Institute to stop putting mandatory arbitration clauses in their college enrollment agreements.
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That led to legal battles in the U.S. and Bermuda over noncompete clauses and misuse of Apollo insider information.
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That led to legal battles in the U.S. and Bermuda over noncompete clauses and misuse of Apollo insider information.
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Mandatory arbitration clauses mean that many — if not most — cases of sexual harassment are dealt with behind closed doors.
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Some prenups actually include "cheating clauses," which entitle the non-cheating party to more money if the spouse strayed.
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The suit claims Trump's continued stake in his business and his business's activities violate two clauses in the Constitution.
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So, sometimes laws have clear severability clauses, so it's not totally in left field to say something like that.
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Schrems argues that U.S. surveillance operations make it impossible for the model clauses But model clauses are not only used by Facebook to store personal data in the U.S. They are also used by a bevy of companies and services throughout Europe and across the world to store data outside the EU. "If model clauses are deemed inadequate, the economic damage will be enormous," said Thomas Boue, director general of policy for Europe, the Middle East and Asia for the software industry trade group BSA.
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The Stones "14 on Fire" tour contract is said to have contained exclusion clauses for a variety of dangerous pursuits.
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The prevalence of arbitration clauses was the subject of a series of articles in The New York Times last year.
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"Lavender marriages," as they were called, began as a response to big studios including "moral clauses" in their stars' contracts.
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Contracts are typically structured with 10-15 year terms, with mid-point break clauses, and allow for inflation-linked indexation.
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The usual suspects were trotted out—the salary cap, league-wide parity, no-trade clauses—but the situation seemed clear.
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And on Wednesday, the legislature passed a bill that would ban mandatory arbitration clauses and nondisclosure agreements from employment contracts.
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In other words, arbitration clauses can prevent you from taking the company to court or joining a class-action lawsuit.
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Arbitration clauses are also common in employment contracts, and for sign-ups for cellphone and cable service, among other sectors.
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The historical record indicated that the two clauses were meant to serve as "broad anti-corruption provisions," the judge wrote.
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Multiple-Notch Downgrade Risk: Negative rating actions may be taken if the cross-default clauses of Wanda's debts are triggered.
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And nondisparagement clauses, which prevent former employees from speaking against their former employers, are fairly standard in the tech industry.
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This is the space between the Scylla and Charybdis of the religion clauses where Missouri says its policy falls, too.
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But companies often include forced arbitration clauses in their user agreements, blocking that escape hatch and rendering the "bargain" moot.
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Arbitration clauses are now in everything from credit card contracts and employee hiring agreements to Uber's user terms of service.
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Where do you go for future funding, given that VCs have vice clauses that preclude them from backing the company?
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Drug companies working with the government have recently been prevented from talking about the planning needed by strict gagging clauses.
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AI might pinpoint atypical clauses in contracts, for example, but it cannot decide if the anomaly is a deal-breaker.
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It also contains several clauses that protect SoundCloud in the event of a conflict with an artist participating in Premier.
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Specifically, the roadmap calls for improving "the existing framework promoting debt sustainability" by strengthening collective action clauses (CACs) in bonds.
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Previous drafts stipulated criminal punishment for officials who violated the law and a last-minute revision has strengthened those clauses.
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But Mr Rajoy's People's Party (PP) campaigned against it, and in 2010 the constitutional court overturned these and other clauses.
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The latter pertains both to the EU-US Privacy Shield and another data transfer mechanism, called standard contractual clauses (SCCs).
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In the United States many laws contain "sunset clauses" that require them to be voted on again every few years.
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GlobalFoundries, a smaller American competitor, argues that TSMC is deliberately increasing these costs, using loyalty rebates, exclusivity clauses and penalties.
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It was barred by each of the four provisions of the Fourteenth Amendment, including the citizenship and equal-protection clauses.
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Often the proceedings have confidentiality clauses attached that prevent the employee from speaking about the case, thereby protecting repeat offenders.
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It is used in questions and relative clauses, which are rarer and more complex than "he saw him" type sentences.
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Beijing lawyer Zhao Zhanling said many clauses in the published drafts were against existing laws, on top of employment discrimination.
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Love waived his option for 2019-20 and there are no other options or trade clauses within the new deal.
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There has been some talk of inserting morals clauses into LP agreements, and that could be helpful if well written.
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Werner's Equifax appearance, an undertaking by an organization called Public Citizen, was focused on highlighting consumer-hostile forced arbitration clauses.
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Department-store chains often demand sale-or-return clauses, or retrospective discounts for stock that they were forced to reduce.
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Surely, some have argued, a team should just have to be honor those clauses, and that's the end of it.
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The senators asked the companies to commit to not using the arbitration clauses in contracts related to self-driving cars.
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These clauses are single-use only, with the leverage test becoming more stringent after a certain period, usually 18 months.
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The clauses are prevalent in the Trump family's businesses, according to a recent survey by consumer advocacy group Public Citizen.
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Let us not forget the pro-conversion therapy, anti-gay adoption, anti-gay marriage clauses in the official party platform.
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The clauses prohibit the president from profiting from foreign governments, the federal governor or state governments, other than his salary.
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It did not elaborate, but has previously said the deal depended on a number of clauses including positive investor feedback.
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Singaporean regulations lack specific UN resolution clauses that ban all financial transactions related to North Korea's conventional weapons, Berger explained.
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Soon, gone will be the days of strict morality clauses that dissuaded VC firms from supporting startups focused on weed.
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I initially opposed the nuclear agreement, principally because Iran's malign actions were left unaddressed and because of its sunset clauses.
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The practice has spread like wildfire across industries following the Supreme Court 2011's decision that the clauses are legal.
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Twenty-five states have enacted laws banning "gag clauses" that prohibit pharmacists from telling patients when this is the case.
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In its decision on Thursday, the Seventh Circuit ruled that the Federal Arbitration Act did not protect all arbitration clauses.
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The amendment to the Iran Review Act would also seek to address so-called sunset clauses in the nuclear deal.
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The fate of the sunset clauses has been a major sticking point in negotiations between the United States and Europe.
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These clauses are, in theory, meant to protect company secrets from being stolen by competitors or leaked to the press.
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It was intended only to be used in the general election, although it contains clauses related to other primary candidates.
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The sentences sometimes read like Latin: you have to untangle all those clauses to figure out what goes with what.
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Their attorney argues that clauses protecting four associates from prosecution are now invalid after Epstein's death in an apparent suicide.
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The impetus for these clauses stemmed from the states' bad experiences in using their resources to promote private economic development.
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As a result, many states adopted gift clauses to prevent the problems associated with promising state resources to private companies.
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At issue are "model" contractual clauses Facebook uses that are supposed to replicate the protection EU citizens have within Europe.
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That means to do business with major markets like Brazil, India and Japan, European Union companies must use model clauses.
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Today, most star players have no-trade clauses, and free agents can determine where they will play and with whom.
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Such clauses have long been criticized by consumer advocates who say that they unfairly force consumers into waiving their rights.
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Those decisions have made it virtually impossible to overturn clauses, even those signed by the most vulnerable nursing home residents.
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Mortgages often have clauses in them that forbid owners from having any outstanding mechanic's liens on the property, he said.
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"We don't have a problem with 'Standard Contractual Clauses,' we have a problem with enforcement," he said in a statement.
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What he is talking about here is the deal's "sunset" clauses -- expiration dates after which Iran could resume uranium enrichment.
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"We recommend travelers ask the travel insurance provider about force majeure clauses and whether or not they are covered," Mrs.
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The Senate is set to vote on a bill Monday that would ban gag clauses in private-sector drug plans.
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Why it matters: Companies rely on arbitration clauses buried in terms of service to keep legal disputes out of court.
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Facebook's current use of one alternative data transfer method — called Standard Contractual Clauses — is also already under separate legal challenge.
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The antidilution provisions worked out by each investor are as follows: There are two primary approaches to fulfilling antidilution clauses.
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Arbitration clauses require disputes to be mediated in a closed forum, rather than in open court or trial by jury.
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Vox's Alvin Chang created this interactive tool for you to see if your employer requires workers to sign arbitration clauses.
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From now on, workers who sign arbitration clauses with class-action waivers can only file claims individually through private arbitration.
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This might mean adding an impactful introductory sentence, incorporating introductory clauses, varying sentence length, diversifying verb choice or anything else.
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Monopsony power is frequently created through noncompete clauses and no-poaching agreements and is aimed at the most vulnerable workers.
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Whether noncompete clauses are binding in health care — especially when patient care is disrupted — is a point legal scholars debate.
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Holiday seasons bring out child-sized chocolate Santa Clauses and Easter bunnies — this tolerant Muslim society adores Christian holiday icons.
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The union also is negotiating with MLB over resetting the dates for players with opt-out clauses in their deals.
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By ending arbitration clauses, blacklisting and workplace cultures where abuse thrives, we can ensure that victims of harassment speak out.
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Arbitration clauses that don't allow class-action suits are used by a wide variety of companies, including Macy's and Kmart.
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The CRFA banned the use by businesses of non-disparagement clauses in any contracts that aren't reasonably open to negotiation.
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They can include nondisclosure agreements and clauses that strip the company of any wrongdoing and prohibit a worker from suing.
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Other internet companies like Airbnb, Netflix and Amazon have arbitration clauses in contracts with their employees and contractors as well.
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"No one is disputing that the emoluments clauses exist, and no one is disputing that they are important," Mooppan said.
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These clauses have grown in popularity across economic sectors because arbitration is much less expensive for both sides than litigation.
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The Constitution's emoluments clauses prohibit presidents from accepting any payment from federal, state or foreign governments beyond their official salary.
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Clauses embedded in those contracts have pushed out of view disputes about elder abuse, sexual harassment and even wrongful deaths.
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The regulator struck out four clauses that would be requirements for any new jet being designed today, the report said.
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Depending on the company, it can be possible to opt-out of arbitration clauses at the start of a contract.
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Clauses in the deals also prevent other broadcasters from making their pay-TV services available in the UK and Ireland.
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A hearing in Virginia was the first time a full appeals panel has considered the anticorruption clauses of the Constitution.
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Prior to the 85033s, American courts typically declined to enforce arbitration clauses, regarding them as unfair when imposed pre-dispute.
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Forced arbitration clauses, while increasingly common across a wide range of consumer agreements, are especially prevalent among for-profit colleges.
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Companies can use contracts pre-approved by the European Commission — known as model clauses — to give EU customers privacy guarantees.
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Payday lenders – some of the worst players in the financial sector – would also finally be prohibited from using these clauses.
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As part of a 85033 settlement, some large firms covering a significant part of the market stopped using arbitration clauses.
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Even more startling, after the scandal became public, Wells Fargo continues to invoke rip-off clauses to block class actions.
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Among them are the due process and equal protection clauses and the First Amendment's ban on government establishment of religion.
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More fundamentally, even if arbitration were fair, the gambit of these arbitration clauses is not to get disputes to arbitration.
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Importantly, many Michigan licenses contain "good moral character" clauses that bar those with a criminal record from entering the field.
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Such clauses have been linked to investor abuses because firms know they cannot be sued in any disputes that arise.
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The government should crack down on noncompete clauses, which undermine workers' ability to sell their labor to the highest bidder.
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The United States wants flaws in what it calls sunset clauses in the 2015 Iranian nuclear deal to be reworked.
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Even the Personal Data Protection Bill recently introduced into parliament has pro-privacy clauses alongside potential loopholes for government surveillance.
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The panel sent a letter in May to 10 major traders operating in the region, outlining the recommended contract clauses.
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"Ultimately, these non-disparagement clauses are going to be stricken, or considered not best practices by HR professionals," Brantner says.
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Cotton is drafting legislation that would repeal the CFPB's new ban on mandatory arbitration clauses often found in financial contracts.
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The European Commission has endorsed the so-called standard contractual clauses, but Schrems argued the Facebook clauses do not adequately protect Europeans from government surveillance in the U.S. He said he is "generally happy" with the advisory opinion, noting that he did not want to disturb the thousands of contractual agreements in place globally.
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Clauses like valuation caps and discounts allow investors to purchase shares at a price lower than the prevailing price per share.
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Starting in 2010, after a favorable opinion in a Delaware court, companies began to adopt forum selection clauses in their bylaws.
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And because of forum selection clauses, the lawyers could not go to another state to try to get a better decision.
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Judges have consistently upheld the clauses, The Times found, regardless of whether the people signing them understood what they were forfeiting.
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Several other companies told BuzzFeed that they did not have such clauses, and two others — Slack and Tesla — declined to comment.
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A place where cartoon villain presidents can be taken down by superhero House Judiciary Committees, wielding ancient emoluments clauses as weapons.
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South Africa, India, Indonesia and several Latin American nations have terminated investment treaties containing ISDS clauses with a number of countries.
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The U.S. draft extending the resolution included "unfair clauses" on gold mining in Sudan, the foreign ministry said in a statement.
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Much like a libcuck who has left their safe space (amirite, VICE Facebook commenters?) release clauses in football are often 'triggered'.
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The freedom of expression has been regulated within the clauses of the Turkish constitution ... They are pretending that I have illegitimacy.
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What's more, it's possible it might not even be worth that much if the government uses one of its out clauses.
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Multiple-Notch Downgrade Risk: Further negative rating actions may be taken if the cross-default clauses of Wanda's debts are triggered.
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A hard-to-follow 55-word sentence with two relative clauses and a grammatical lapse (make it "whom the state selected").
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The clauses, which are widely used in many industries, funnel employee complaints to a private legal system instead of the courts.
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This granted immunity from such quotas to anyone from a country with an EU association agreement that included non-discrimination clauses.
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Lawyers for the church say the state's action is an unconstitutional violation of both the free exercise and equal protection clauses.
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Or maybe all those extra clauses are just a really good way to load up a sentence with praise — or insults.
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Industry sources, however, say some of the 200 planes on order may be subject to reconfirmation or other get-out clauses.
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Instead officials are unearthing so-called passerelle clauses that allow for changes to the EU's rule book to be made quietly.
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The spread of mandatory-arbitration clauses in employment contracts and the decline of trade unions are both signs of that imbalance.
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The gold standard for cinematic Santa Clauses, Gwenn plays Kris Kringle, a department store Santa who insists he's the real thing.
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Some treaties have clauses obliging the EU to improve the terms if need be if another subsequently gets more favourable treatment.
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"We can modify that clause and also take advantage to modify other clauses that might be uncomfortable for us," said Ferreyros.
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If you suddenly died, some private lenders have clauses in their contracts that require the loan balance to be repaid immediately.
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One open question is whether firms can ban employees who are subject to mandatory-arbitration clauses from filing class-action suits.
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He said they would include clauses to allow a 30-day termination notice if the United States was not treated fairly.
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But our lawyers were able to fight these off on some obscure "animation" and parody clauses, so the videos continued unabated.
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But in February, the Supreme Court will decide if companies should be allowed to include arbitration clauses in their employee contracts.
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Risk of Multiple-Notch Downgrade: Further negative rating action may result if the cross-default clauses of Wanda's debts are triggered.
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Smith said "hundreds to a thousand" employees (mostly very senior positions out of 120,000 employees worldwide) were subject to such clauses.
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Some of the big haulers are going back into their contracts with municipalities and starting to enforce the residual content clauses.
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Japan's Fair Trade Commission is investigating whether the clauses hurt competition and is exchanging information with the government on their impact.
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Most kit suppliers, which rake in millions in sales when a team does well, now include performance clauses within sponsorship deals.
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A $40 million (£30 million) agreement is being thrashed out, the FT said, complete with non-compete and no-poaching clauses.
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The Pharmaceutical Care Management Association, the industry group for PBMs, says it doesn't endorse gag clauses and that they are rare.
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We have urged the CFPB to go farther, and ban the use of binding arbitration clauses by the companies it regulates.
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As of August 2018, at least 26 state legislatures had prohibited insurance plans and pharmacy benefit managers from instituting gag clauses.
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But it does not cover one major thorn for the Trump administration: sunset clauses that lift key nuclear restrictions by 2025.
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Destination clauses limit where cargoes can be delivered and prevent companies from selling excess coal to third parties in other places.
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Mandatory arbitration clauses are already prohibited in mortgage contracts, under the 2010 Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act.
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These are ambiguous, adjectival clauses at the beginning or end of sentences that often don't modify the right word or phrase.
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Better yet, Iran would be able to obtain a nuclear weapon in due time thanks to sunset clauses in the agreement.
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The proposals, by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, should have banned pre-dispute arbitration clauses in nursing home contracts.
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The proposed rule acknowledges "concerns" about forced arbitration and notes that regulators solicited comment on whether the clauses should be banned.
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Institutional VCs have been reticent regarding cannabis because LPs often have "vice clauses" banning investing in firearms, gambling, tobacco, and alcohol.
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The Consumer Review Fairness Act bans clauses in contracts that penalize customers for writing online reviews or ban the practice outright.
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Like most big banks and many other corporations, Wells Fargo buries ripoff clauses in the fine print of its customer contracts.
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Unknown to most Americans, clauses buried in the fine print of everyday contracts compel them to give up their legal rights.
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The suggestion that he still might leave with millions means that he found a loophole to make these misconduct clauses irrelevant.
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Putting aside Roger Goodell's Napoleon Complex and Tom Brady's balls, the core of the case involved the sanctity of arbitration clauses.
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A refinery strike unrelated to new contract negotiations would be highly unusual since all union contracts typically include no-strike clauses.
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At issue are forced arbitration clauses that are slipped into financial contracts and typically bar consumers from joining class action lawsuits.
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"The only thing that affected their belief was how many other Santa Clauses they had interacted with that year," she said.
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The bank has been criticized for its mandatory arbitration clauses from Democratic lawmakers in Congress, including Senator Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts.
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Morality clauses are often added to contracts, allowing companies to fire employees for publicly embarrassing situations that damage the company's image.
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The new language, which would ban most nondisclosure agreements and mandatory arbitration clauses, extended to both the public and private sectors.
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The clauses are used for nearly every U.S. consumer product and service since the Supreme Court ruled them legal in 2011.
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One survey of nearly 2,000 primary care physicians in five states found that roughly 45 percent were bound by such clauses.
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Ms. Warren wrote that a law guaranteeing access to abortion would be legal under the Constitution's commerce and equal protection clauses.
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In the wake of #MeToo, advisers are adding clauses to merger agreements that protect buyers if inappropriate behavior is revealed later.
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The small print in these documents requires all signatories to agree to binding arbitration and to clauses that ban class actions.
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But the text on which they rely shows the opposite: The Constitution's "faithful execution" clauses impose a duty of good faith.
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Forced arbitration clauses, often slipped into the fine print, bar consumers from joining class-action lawsuits or suing on their own.
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Trump is also reportedly unhappy with the so-called "sunset clauses," which allow Iran to resume some nuclear enrichment from 2025.
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That includes two pending rules on payday lending and mandatory arbitration clauses in contracts - both of which have raised Republican ire.
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"The Court has struggled to find a neutral course between the two Religion Clauses," it admitted nearly half a century ago.
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Wells Fargo's legal success shows the overwhelming power that arbitration clauses have in shaping disputes between everyday Americans and huge corporations.
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Such clauses often force consumers to settle complaints with financial companies through mediated arbitration, instead of filing a class-action lawsuit.
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The new CFPB rule forces companies to write arbitration clauses in ways that wouldn't prevent consumers from joining class-action lawsuits.
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Worse, the deal set expiration dates on certain clauses that eventually allow for the Islamist state to develop nuclear weapons freely.
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The court found the rule violates both clauses, both of which pertain to Congress's powers over the use of federal funds.
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"Standard contractual clauses provide important safeguards to ensure that Europeans' data are protected once transferred overseas," Gilbert said in a statement.
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The four-year contract, worth 4 million Australian dollars, or $183 million, included clauses that restricted his behavior on social media.
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Schrems and other privacy campaigners contend that alternative arrangements such as model clauses don't offer Europeans any means of redress either.
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Many leases also have clauses that require landlords to actually pay their tenants if their space hasn't been constructed in time.
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The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) is moving quickly to tackle a massive, under-the-radar consumer problem: forced arbitration clauses.
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Moreover, Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, the mortgage giants, chased forced arbitration clauses out of mortgages they purchased starting in 2004.
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Instead, it simply prevents mandatory pre-arbitration clauses from blocking consumers from banding together to pursue their legal rights in court.
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The clauses underpin important business activities such as outsourced services, cloud infrastructure, data hosting, human resources management, payroll, finance and marketing.
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The Senate is slated to vote Monday on the Patient Right to Know Drug Prices Act, which would ban gag clauses.
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The CFPB acted to adopt the rule after completing the most comprehensive review ever of the effect of rip-off clauses.
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Most had preexisting condition clauses, which excluded treatment for known medical conditions during the first six or 1503 months of membership.
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Wednesday's letter to Amazon's board of directors requests that the company use its shareholder meeting today to address and eliminate arbitration clauses.
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The Directive has undergone many revisions before arriving at its current state, but it still has several clauses which are highly controversial.
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All I had to do was write a handful of clauses about the power of handwriting to reveal subconscious truths about myself.
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Trump has argued that Democratic lawmakers are reading the Emoluments Clauses too broadly and that the nation's founders were prohibiting outright bribes.
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