And it's written in legalese that we can't decipher anyway.
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Legalese aside ... you can listen to the similarities for yourself.
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Yes, there is a lot of legalese to wade through.
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But, it's locked in a legalese—we don't own the tracks.
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Robert Sikoryak turned the iTunes boilerplate legalese into a comic book.
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Phalanxes of lengthy Legalese marched down the street, parting the crowd.
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You can read the whole passage of legalese describing this here.
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He could perfectly mimic legalese but with rhymes and clever wordplay.
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Legalese aside, there are some things at play here to consider.
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This is not a time for partisan misdirection dressed up as legalese.
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The letter's language was brisk, addled with clauses and legalese, totally dispassionate.
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We cannot permit it to be swallowed up as corporate-friendly legalese.
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It reads less like bureaucratic legalese than like a classic American short story.
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Consistent with the tradition of nebulous legalese, there are different kinds of immunity.
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Observers sought to translate Mueller's legalese into easily digestible data points on Wednesday.
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After all, a deal's a deal when it's written in legalese and signed.
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There, the conductor confirmed my destination, and I agreed to the displayed legalese.
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They're typically filled with legalese and boring chatter about data and how it's handled.
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In legalese it's called "Auer deference" referencing a 1997 case called Auer v. Robbins.
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Criminal indictments are typically written in the dry, terse active voice of American legalese.
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Facebook should use clear language, not legalese upon sign-up and in managing privacy.
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Fabric says its wills are drafted by lawyers, and they contain plenty of legalese.
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The House impeachment managers' arguments on Thursday were heavy on constitutional history and legalese.
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Mr. Gale's specific gift was wrapping nonsense in enough legalese that it sounded real.
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Trump's tweets — which were written in dense legalese — mean the president is now contradicting himself.
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Terms of service agreements are ludicrous rat's nests of legalese and business and engineering terminology.
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We can't blame you—they're long, boring polices written in legalese that's difficult to understand.
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For decades, insurance companies have been held to long, tedious legalese in their insurance contracts.
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Issuing windy statements laced with legalese to the Baylor community about how much he cared.
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But the racist history of felon disenfranchisement laws should not get lost in the legalese.
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Let me throw some legalese in here and confuse you, and then I'll do it.
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The document was written in legalese and issued as a memorandum on White House letterhead.
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I've even combed through the brain-numbing legalese of dozens of tech company privacy policies.
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It's a wonder companies don't insert "nyah nyah nyah nyah" into the tiny-print legalese.
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Research shows that trainings which focus on legalese and compliance won't inspire employees to change.
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That will seem like evasive legalese to many, an explanation few are likely to accept.
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And remarkably, a number of the promises aren't the typical wishy-washy legalese you might expect.
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But with all the legalese buried within these agreements, understanding them is easier said than done.
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Still, for many on the internet, GDPR remains a black box of legalese and obscure policy.
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The result is too much detail: new American credit cards come with 31 pages of legalese.
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Both men are climate-change deniers who speak in a disciplined legalese, thereby avoiding political gaffes.
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Next, the group parsed a bit of legalese regarding the protections afforded the hosts of gleaners.
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Most still end in an office, with the two sides signing page after page of legalese.
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The law requires that the terms and conditions be written in plain, understandable language, not legalese.
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There would be no more endless pages of legalese that nobody reads or can easily understand.
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" In non-legalese: Being butthurt over the price of a burger doesn't qualify as "suffering injury.
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He is an accomplished writer who disdains legalese, often drafting complex opinions in plainspoken, well-crafted prose.
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Surely, dealing with all this legalese, no matter how streamlined the process is, could still be confusing.
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Slater of the Clyde Group said that United would have been best served by ditching the legalese.
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Former lawyers will continue to give you legalese and bills because that is their formative professional training.
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But this calls for improved quality of disclosure — more plain English, less legalese — not weakening disclosure standards.
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In legalese, the plaintiffs lacked "standing" because they could not show that the map harmed them individually.
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While Professor Hazard wrote for professional and academic journals in lofty legalese, he could also be blunt.
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First, the policy should be plainly written and easily understandable to anyone who reads it – avoid legalese.
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I read with interest Johnson's column on the baffling legalese contained in instructions given to juries (April 14th).
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CAS's Levine dismisses such claims as "legalese," citing the many ways Tesla and Musk have promoted the system.
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The section is written in the standard legalese that ensures that no one will ever read its contents.
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Mr. Bridge, meanwhile, spends long hours at the office and obsesses over the legalese in his own will.
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More importantly, the ones who do understand the legalese of contracts are not powerful enough to effect change.
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He should publicly admit what he did and why it was wrong without excuses and legalese and deflection.
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Your words will carry more emotional weight and solace than any of the legalese in wills and medical directives.
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There have been some reports that Apple Card will charge penalty rates, largely due to some required regulatory legalese.
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Check out the videos below to learn how other entrepreneurs approach legalese, and get inspired for your own ventures.
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I've deliberately avoided using these, because they're sort of redundant legalese for the things I've already been talking about.
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Many EULAs are the size of short books (PayPal's terms of service is 20,000 words) and written in legalese.
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When best-interest rules were first proposed six years ago, industry lobbyists buried them under a pile of legalese.
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His innovation was to wrap his rants in constitutionalism and legalese, a tactic intended to make them sound legitimate.
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Translated from legalese: The president can ban whoever he wants, however long he wants, for whatever reason he wants.
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Bureau news releases, once packed with colorful details about abusive lending practices, have been toned down to dry legalese.
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In legalese, a power of attorney is simply a document that authorizes another person to act on your behalf.
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Contracts are often dozens of pages long and full of legalese that teenage gamers either aren't reading or don't understand.
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"We don't need any more legalese - we need clear precise assurances that banks can do business with Iran," he said.
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A justifiable reason is that it can be difficult to render legalese accurately into terms that sound like conversational English.
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And yet the NFL gives itself enough outs in the form of rulebook legalese to let many dangerous hits fly.
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Regulators say that web services will no longer be able to cloak the terms of their data practices in legalese.
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"Faced with impenetrable legalese and deliberate obfuscation, consumers can't compare offers or make clear-eyed choices about borrowing," Warren wrote.
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Just 4.8 percent of the sites analyzed, including Tumblr, feature more accessible versions of their contact alongside the typical legalese.
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Image: USPTOEverything in the patent is written in legalese and is a bit vague about what happens to the audio data.
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That's a lot of legalese, and could be confusing to the average consumer who maybe doesn't know what "security interest" means.
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The employment contract Mason drew up for Hurston was rigid, comprehensive, and "choked with legalese," Hurston's biographer Valerie Boyd has written.
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If you cannot find the disclosures, or you are unable to understand their legalese, consider holding off until you learn more.
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While users often must agree to this type of data-sharing, it's typically buried in legalese in apps' terms of service.
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Companies create contract terms that they understand because they wrote them, and consumers cannot be reasonably expected to understand the legalese.
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But after the criticism, the company rewrote its terms of service, to avoid legalese, and AnchorFree began to release transparency reports.
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Such procedures are often presented to patients in the form of a stack of papers, written in legalese or medical jargon.
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I have a feeling this case is going to go on for-ev-er, and I'm already tired of reading legalese.
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Barr once more deftly took advantage of the fact that Mueller, with his impenetrable legalese and double negatives, has handcuffed himself.
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I spoke to a member of Vox Media's legal team who looked over the legalese in the Fine Brothers' trademark application.
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Whenever I asked him a question about his charity, he would motion to an attorney who answered with a torrent of legalese.
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This technique (taking a "multijurisdictional survey", in legalese) has not been the Supreme Court's strategy in most similar cases, Mr Kedem argued.
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An ad for T-Mobile featured executives from a rival company badgering Drake, a rapper, to clutter up his lyrics with legalese.
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Maybe what we really need is a rethinking of how these terms of services are presented — less legalese and more plain English.
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They're written in eye-glazing legalese perfectly calibrated to make any normal human being want to stop reading as soon as possible.
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In other words, they could simply tell customers what to expect in endless contracts filled with legalese and printed in tiny type.
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Well, for one, the government withheld evidence, so I am not super familiar with the legalese, but it&aposs called a Brady violation.
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Confirm that they are more adept at translating legalese than speaking it, and know right up front how they charge for their services.
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"This isn't just legalese to preserve IAC's options with an expected outcome in mind – we sincerely haven't yet decided what's best," Levin wrote.
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"Realistically, most privacy policies will still not be human readable and will be hiding the needles in a haystack of legalese," says Welinder.
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Impressively so, given the dry CNIL decision against mobile "demand side platform" Vectaury was only published in the regulator's native dense French legalese.
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Buried in a confidential bond document, in a jumble of legalese, Lone Star explains to investors one way it profits from delinquent loans.
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But instead of looking for specific keywords or language, the AI has been trained to understand technical legal language or so-called legalese.
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While drawing, I listened to the court proceedings, but between my visual concentration and the legalese, I understood maybe a quarter of it.
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Google would rather send Walker to spew a bunch of legalese than hold its own leaders accountable, just like it did last year.
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The testy exchange marked a relatively dramatic moment in what had otherwise been a hearing heavy on legalese and the merits of impeachment.
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New laws can lay down basic guarantees of privacy that won't require you to wade through hundreds of thousands of words of legalese.
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Sorting through the legalese: The memo's issuance sparked widespread confusion, leading some to believe that many more individuals would be affected than in actuality.
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"Kantor and Twohey write, "Translated from legalese, this meant: Harvey Weinstein, if you want to drag this story into open court, go right ahead.
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Clinton, when under oath with special counsel Ken Starr, tried to slip similarly narrow questions with a round of now-infamous riffs of legalese.
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It was just a lot of information and legalese, and I couldn't get past that first episode because it required me to pay attention.
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Maybe just starting from the beginning: One, we actually have simplified our policies to make them human-readable so that they're not just in legalese.
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An explanatory document puts the legalese into plain English, but it's too early to tell if the legislation itself does what lawmakers think it does.
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But finding the balance is the trick — you shouldn't have to read through 80,000 words of legalese when you sign up for a streaming service.
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Switching from a more "legalese" document full of jargon to a more layman's version could also help it dispel myths or give people more transparency.
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We all know that kids do not read long privacy policies and terms of service written in legalese when signing up for the latest app.
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The complete abandonment of the "one person one vote" constitutional principle is obvious even within the smarmy legalese used in the ridiculous attempt at justification.
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"It's a political argument dressed up in legalese," said William Howell, an expert on the presidency and separation of powers at the University of Chicago.
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Wheeler, a well-groomed Washington insider with a firm grasp on slippery legalese, will be poised to undo key parts of the EPA's regulatory mechanism.
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With a tweet, Musk set off a chain of events for a potential transaction that would typically entail pages and pages of documentation and legalese.
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His rulings are replete with the legalese that routinely marks judicial orders — references to "all of the foregoing" and "declaratory and injunctive relief," and the like.
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More often than not, moderators are dealing with a complex interplay of guidelines, legalese, and guesswork done by users with access to flagging and reporting buttons.
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WASHINGTON — No one said it would be easy to turn a two-year investigation and 448 pages of dense legalese into riveting made-for-TV moments.
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But for Mr. Modanlo, whose soft-spoken English is laced with legalese, the idea of waiving his right to pursue vindication in court was especially difficult.
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That means that even for a new insurance company like Lemonade, the contract is just as long and filled with legalese as any other insurance company.
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It's the way it's cloaked in legalese, buried in the local newspaper, looking to anyone who happens to notice it like just another routine bureaucratic change.
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But Plex has grown its registered user base to nearly 14 million as of August, and more often than not, users ignore legalese updates like this.
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And when he was asked later whether he knew his false statements to a financial institution were untrue when he made them, he answered with legalese.
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It said Mr. Breathed would have his "(censored word) in a sling before lunch," undoubtedly not a common term of professional legalese, unless Mr. Breathed stopped.
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One thing you can do that doesn't involve as much legalese is to be proactive about monitoring and limiting the amount of personal data being collected.
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Though written in legalese, the report often appeared to formalize the President's Twitter feeds and the monologues of conservative news show hosts who support the President.
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Yet, by focusing upon the legalese and apparent inconsistencies of language between sections, lawyers often fail to see that de-identification is in fact a spectrum.
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And of course, that's because they're not actually written for you, or any of the other billions of people who click to agree to their inscrutable legalese.
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Think, for example, of "Smoking Kills" on cigarette packages versus the 13 or so pages of fine print legalese in some social media company's Terms of Use.
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Creators are often young and inexperienced and, in many cases, do not fully understand the legalese behind a contract that could dictate their earning potential for years.
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To go along with the business-related complexities of entrepreneurship, the paperwork and legalese associated with starting a company will be enough to make your head spin.
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During Wednesday's hearing, the judge reviewed the adequacy of TK Holdings' disclosures, which attempt to summarize and translate the dense legalese of the company's proposed reorganization plan.
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"Until recently, authorities denied the existence of these draconian camps, and now they have cloaked their repression in legalese," USCIRF chair Tenzin Dorjee, said in a statement.
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The first really emotional episode of Making A Murderer feels a little bit like its treading water, biding time until the real meaty legalese starts to unfurl.
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Those agreements, often couched in difficult-to-understand legalese, make it hard for people like her to get justice for workplace harassment and other issues, Fowler said.
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With the guidelines he offers, people often make the legalese more conversational, and they add language that reminds them of the free time a retirement can offer.
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"People quickly run into the challenge that there's so much legalese that it's up to you to envision how your data may be used," Ms. Sandvik said.
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But he said Facebook is committed to figuring out how to communicate the information to consumers by some means other than a long document full of legalese.
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"Big crocodiles" and "demons" might not be terms typically associated with regulatory legalese, but those phrases have begun to creep into the lexicon of China's top financial regulators.
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Bharara constantly generates headlines using a combination of charm and an ability to abandon legalese, speaking instead in quote-worthy soundbites to New York's always headline-hungry press.
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Deep in the obligatory legalese of the filing, Blue Apron also notes an litany of potential threats on the horizon that cover everything from natural disasters to taxes.
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Janet Randall, a psycholinguist at Northeastern University, has found that rendering these instructions in plain English, stripping out passives and legalese especially, makes them much easier to interpret.
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As a result, internet companies have been taking our personal property — our private information — while hiding this fact behind lengthy and coercive legalese and cumbersome "opt out" processes.
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We'll spare you the legalese, but bottom line is the feds are siding with the "Below Deck" cappy because they believe the case was filed behind Lee's back.
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Read on for the best advice we heard about term sheets:Look at the big pictureIt's easy to get bogged down in all the legalese in a term sheet.
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We've now been inundated with images of victims bravely coming forward and abusers cowering behind legalese, but the role of the bystander still lacks a clear social script.
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Arbitration clauses are usually in fine print and legalese, in contracts that people typically must sign to get a job, buy a phone, or open a bank account.
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If the underlying translation data had been legal documents, the model would have produced legalese; if it was aircraft flight instruction manuals, it would have produced aircraft flight instructions.
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Although the patent itself is full of the legalese that is typical of patent filings, it doesn't actually say how the "module" that converts audio to text actually works.
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He has no idea how a person with no legal training — and who may not speak English — would begin to understand the complicated legalese of our convoluted immigration system.
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They are not for the fainthearted: data contracts often run over dozens of pages of dense legalese, with language specifying allowed uses and how data are to be protected.
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Legal experts puzzled over Carr's terse legalese but noted that the rarity of public statements by the special counsel suggested Mueller felt an overwhelming urgency to correct the record.
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When I first engaged Autosteer in the settings menu, I was greeted by a wall of legalese explaining the responsibilities I have as a driver while operating the system.
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As Mr. Gilbert continued to shout objections and spout incomprehensible legalese on Wednesday, Mr. Levine, asked the judge to stop the trial and order a new mental health evaluation.
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This latest proposal obscures its harmful effects with legalese that draws dubious distinctions between certain streams even though pollution flows downstream regardless of the legal terminology the agency deploys.
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President Trump obstructed on nearly every page of Volume II of the Mueller report, even though Robert Mueller was too lost in legalese to throw the book at him.
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"The internet can be your friend, but it can also be the world's greatest enemy because people don't understand the consequences or the legalese of these documents," Schechter said.
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Some may try to chalk this up to an oversight, or hide in the tangled legalese of intelligence law, but it is an appalling breach of judgment and ethics.
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But visitors quickly pointed out that Equifax's terms of service include a consumer-unfriendly piece of legalese known as an arbitration clause, which bans parties from joining class action lawsuits.
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Those that confused users with gigantic terms of service written in opaque legalese now have the tables turned and must try to figure out what the law is actually saying.
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Those that do are not always able to understand what these documents are saying owing partly to the legalese used and partly to the intentionally vague wording of some passages.
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In a piece of understated legalese, the filings explain Mellet was "deeply upset" by having a stranger hand over the remains of a much-wanted pregnancy in a Ziploc bag.
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Cox's ruling, couched in dense legalese, was itself a rebuke of the deal May brokered with Brussels that had boasted of legal "instruments," reading a lot like last-minute flimflam.
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I open the 513-page document, with all its legalese and redactions, breathe in the history of the moment and … immediately open five different tabs of junk on the internet.
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"What the report portrays, in numbing legalese and revealing footnotes, is a breathtaking culture of lying and impunity, distrust and double-dealing," wrote Susan B. Glasser of The New Yorker.
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As usual, Judy cut through all the legalese and summed up the case as a lesson for society: Don't question a woman's paycheck, unless you're gonna scrutinize a man's too!
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The resulting buzz from those famous gigs and songs are represented with a sheaf of label paperwork: proposals, contracts and other assorted legalese, marked up with Buckley's astute questions and comments.
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But in this post-2016 world—in this world of a U.S. wide open to all manner of foreign money and foreign meddling—simply skirting by on legalese is not enough.
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This creates an incentive for companies to collect and store as much data as possible, and to bury the privacy ramifications, either in legalese or by playing dumb and being vague.
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The Interdisciplinary Group's final report, written in strict legalese, didn't include a detailed narrative of those images that is in Mr. Beristain's book, but noted Mr. Zerón's violations of legal procedures.
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In this regard, your husband is correct: Without mutual sacrifice, his promise is not technically a contract but instead a simple, spoken agreement — one he could weasel out of with legalese.
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Much of our consent is more about giving up than giving willingly, like clicking "I agree" to the many single-spaced pages of legalese required to watch a movie on iTunes.
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It had to make a lame video explaining for stockbrokers how its app worked and laying out the details in the boring legalese required of filing with the securities and exchange commission.
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D37 requires a curious and patient audience, one that doesn't shy away from legalese and municipal records, and is open to the proposition that research itself can be a work of art.
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The argument a tech company lawyer might offer, namely that consent has been given through a pop-up form filled with paragraph after paragraph of 6-point-size legalese is, frankly, bullshit.
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The Nintendo of America employee manual isn't quite as interesting, as it's stuffed with the same carefully typewritten legalese that you'd probably read as an employee at Liberty Mutual as at Nintendo.
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It all seems pretty convoluted, but cutting through the legalese, NDOC does not comment on discipline, nor release inaccurate information, and no one in the department released this specific Simpson masturbating information.
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Rigorous, dedicated, and unafraid to be her awkwardly dorky self from time to time, Koenig's humanizing nature makes even the stodgiest aspects of hairy court cases and legalese feel more interesting and accessible.
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But unlike AMC's grim tales of drug-running cartels and shady legalese, Mike Judge and Alex Berg are telling the same antihero narrative in a context that feels very real, immediate, and public.
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Instead, the so-called 30-day amendments — a series of fixes and tweaks issued a month after the proposal — arrive, largely unheralded, in a packet of dense legalese posted to the governor's website.
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While facing questions from the Senate Intelligence Committee during her confirmation hearing on Wednesday, Haspel piled on the legalese to talk about her relationship to the agency's interrogation program in the early aughts.
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But how consumer genetic testing companies actually use your DNA is often obscured behind many pages of vague, jargon-filled legalese—and as I recently explored, those agreements can hide some rather terrifying clauses.
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"All Proposition 63 seeks to do is pile on 34 more pages of more complex legalese on an already byzantine system of gun laws," said Sean Brady, counsel for the Coalition for Civil Liberties.
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A "Bachelor Nation" flag hanging above the proceedings places the show's fixations on true love and TV stardom in sharp relief — it's emblazoned with a diamond ring and inscribed with reality TV contract legalese.
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And yet, how can people respect a system that utilizes the sophisticated tools of legalese, the purported due diligence of formal reports, and the officialdom of drawn-out investigations to impugn common sense justice?
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But they don't like that Pruitt has reportedly pushed back on President Donald Trump's request to revisit the endangerment finding, the single piece of EPA legalese which allows the agency to regulate greenhouse gas emissions.
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" Four years later it's, "Why follow sober legalese from people who look like the deans in 1980s college comedies when you can call them nerds, sit back and wait for the next five-alarm fire?
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Applying the right vocabulary to a crime will not curtail it, but the abstractions and legalese common in the media and politics can drain the task of urgency, by making the scourge seem less acute.
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Even though Deflategate largely played out in the legalese of motion briefs and affidavits, it's helpful to remember exactly what we are talking about, which is the single dumbest sports scandal in the history of sports.
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Furthermore, Fitbit tries to employ clear, non-legalese language in our policies so our users understand what data we collect and how we use it, and we continually look for ways to improve our written policies.
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As this kind of technology develops, he said it can be used for other headache-inducing online legalese, like terms of service, which state what a user is agreeing to in order to access the site.
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Despite their widespread use, these agreements often catch departing workers off guard because they are rarely highlighted during interviews and are usually tucked inside employment contracts that are full of impenetrable legalese few people can understand.
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But that doesn't mean we can't enjoy the absurd spectacle of the legal team for the man Oliver described as a "geriatric Dr. Evil" trying to out-bombast the HBO comedian's signature hyperbolic wit in dry legalese.
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And even less fair when you consider that most of the apps being used now are mobile apps, and small screens make an even less pleasant reading environment for digesting dense, multi-thousand-word blocks of legalese.
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"In this system—our system—the slaves are unaware both of their status and of their masters, who exist in a world apart where the intangible shackles are carefully hidden amongst reams of unreachable legalese," Doe writes.
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Even for someone deeply committed to affirmative consent (like, say, me), it's hard to work up enthusiasm for the idea of reading through a bunch of legalese and signing a contract prior to hooking up with someone.
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And even so-called "codes of conduct," those legalese-adjacent blocks of text that tout a company's dedication to ethical labor practices, are rarely the talisman against supply-chain impropriety that brands make them out to be.
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Adding to the confusion, the plan was pushed through as part of the state budget — identified only as the "Central Business District Tolling Program" — and outlined in eye-glazing legalese that most people will never get through.
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The DNC's delegate selection rules say that pledged delegates "shall in all good conscience reflect the sentiments of those who elected them" — a bit of legalese saying they are not legally bound and can vote their consciences.
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If you've been reading this newsletter or keeping up with the Privacy Project, you probably know that buried inside these tomes of legalese are details about how your personal data will be collected, used and potentially shared.
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The distributor failed to add a proper copyright indication to the film, having accidentally dumped the necessary legalese printed on its Night of the Flesh Eaters title card after switching to the punchier Night of the Living Dead.
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It is standard legalese protecting Tesla from admitting any wrongdoing by way of making a repair, said David Vladeck, a law professor at Georgetown University and a former director of the Federal Trade Commission's Bureau of Consumer Protection.
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They spoke in euphemisms (Dick Cheney: "We also have to work sort of the dark side, if you will") and translated torture into official government legalese (See: John Yoo's torture memos), but the underlying sentiment was the same.
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McDonell doesn't delve into these questions as legal matters (he dismisses "legalese" at one point) but looks at how American policy defines acceptable violence—the killing of enemies and even civilians in the bargain, just not too many.
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The details are buried in a mound of legalese, but essentially the problem was that California was effectively taxing inter-state services as well as within-state ones, which is not allowed either by state or federal law.
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The difficult and daunting legalese prompted one UK investment firm to wonder what term sheets would look like if they were written in plain English, but the odds of receiving something so simple for your startup are slim.
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The issue is that for Montagna to properly prove that he is being defamed, he needs to know for certain who is making the accusations against him—which is where the case gets buried in finer points of legalese.
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But it's also true that the ways Facebook and other tech companies collect and use our data is often complex, and having dense legalese to explain it to users is more for protecting the company than actually informing users.
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The new rules treat personal data as proprietary, owned by an individual, and any use of that data must be accompanied by permission — opting in rather than opting out — after receiving a request written in clear language, not legalese.
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After weeks of being reprimanded by Justice Jackson for spouting random objections and nonsensical legalese, a gaunt and pale Mr. Gilbert, 34, has largely been absent from his own proceedings, choosing not to come to court on most days.
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There is more legalese in Toyota's T.S.S. literature than "O"s in a box of Froot Loops, but here is what to expect: Auto braking (called a precollision system by Toyota) operates at 7 to 110 miles per hour.
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As species of personality go, the writer and the bureaucrat are closely related: they're deskbound creatures who enjoy the comfortable certainties of Microsoft Office and dazzling us with wordcraft, be it small-print legalese or the impenetrable prose of literary fiction.
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Removing the legalese is the best way to help people understand the fundamentals invisibly governing their online life, but Facebook, as ever, can't be trusted to fully inform people of the extent to which it collects and manipulates user data.
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"Every country has their own legalese regarding the right to your own image, so while you may be able to take down sites in the U.S. that are using your face, the same rules might not apply in Germany," she said.
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That refusal falls in line with Trump's blanket ban on any cooperation from his administration with the impeachment inquiry, an argument legal observers have dismissed as a legally dubious Trumpian rant subsequently dressed up in legalese by top White House attorneys.
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Zuckerberg faced criticism for not answering many of the more intricate or controversial questions from members of Congress in the moment, but by playing it safe the company bought two months' worth of time to craft its answers in perfect legalese.
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It allows those advisers to satisfy what was a heightened duty simply by disclosing their conflicts of interest in a document that their customers are unlikely to understand even if they take the time to plow through the pile of legalese.
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Money is great, but if it's locked up in some inaccessible caldron of laws and legalese (ie: your 2000k or IRA), then accessing that money before you're ripe enough to retire traditionally might not be possible – at least not without penalties.
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Our board was also very specific that they didn't want an endless document full of legalese that photographers can't understand and would never have the ability or patience to read, which is why our terms are less than two pages long.
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Here's more: [E]very country has their own legalese regarding the right to your own image, so while you may be able to take down sites in the U.S. that are using your face, the same rules might not apply in Germany.
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The earnest love between Avery and his parents remains a heartbreaking refrain in this follow up Overall, there is less of a human tether for audiences to connect with, which would make it easier to care when the legalese becomes a bit much.
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This time it's the corporations imploding with fear and uncertainty because a bunch of Europeans handed them a big vague unreadable tome of legalese and told them they had to click on it before they're allowed to do business in the European Union.
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Clicking around the Dreams app and the official site for the beta gives me no information about who owns intellectual property in Dreams, and I can't help my pessimistic feeling that the layer of fun creativity covering up legalese is a tactical one.
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" The agony of ruined lives radiates from the page, as does the repetitive banality of legalese: "It is the policy / of the City to jail / people / It is the policy / of the City to hold prisoners / until / extinguished / It is the policy.
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" And the legalese suggested, as Greenwald noticed, the involvement of network higher-ups: "The most offensive passage here — 'CNN reserves the right to publish his identity should any of that change' — sounds like classic lawyer language that executives or corporate lawyers would demand be included.
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While each response will be couched in legalese, Google's main argument is that its business practices do not fall afoul of the region's tough antitrust rules and that competitors can freely offer their own rival digital services to Europe's more than 500 million consumers.
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But even though Mr. Mueller, the special counsel, cut through the legalese of his 448-page report on Wednesday to make clear that his investigation in no way exonerated President Trump, he stopped short of delivering a punchy sound bite to summarize his inquiry.
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And companies shouldn't be able to require that users consent to their faces being used in such ways as a condition of using their products without obtaining signatures, since studies suggest that most of us don't read lengthy privacy disclosures that are full of legalese.
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At this point, the producers had the women sign documents containing "dense and ambiguous legalese," which they falsely described as guarantees that their videos would be distributed only on DVD outside of the United States and would never be published online, Judge Enright wrote.
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According to the lawsuit, the men urged them to sign contracts full of legalese that they did not understand, rushing them along by saying they had only a few hours to shoot the video and the contract merely reiterated what they had already been promised.
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They were flown to San Diego from all over North America and were put up in hotel rooms with men to shoot a pornographic film, handed dense contracts of legalese to hurriedly sign, and, in some cases were given alcohol and drugs before signing.
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Any list would be incomplete without the report: the culmination of the biggest political storyline of Trump&aposs term, at least until Ukrainegate, compiled into a massive over-400-page opus that either did or didn&apost demonstrate collusion, depending on perspective (and some legalese).
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Cleverly hiding xenophobia under legalese and statutory mumbo jumbo are tools that the Trump administration have deployed to detract from the fact that the possibility of asylum, as it has existed in the United States, is being virtually eliminated for most of the world's persecuted people.
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The family's lawyer put them on alert to leave Russia at a moment's notice, since the forensic tests — no matter the result — would be taken as part of a "molestation" case — which, in Russian legalese, doesn't imply sexual violence or even physical contact with the child.
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RELATED: Florida's Senate race heads to a hand recount Sporting a bow tie over his black robes during marathon hearings on Wednesday and Thursday, Walker played devil's advocate with both sides of the courtroom, probing each argument with a mix of legalese, current events and humor.
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The amount of legalese found in these documents can be overwhelming to the average person — but just as large companies protect themselves by way of contract, it's also important for freelancers to have some basic understanding of what it is they're signing and thus legally agreeing to.
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Always affixed to the door's glass, translucent except for the image of a black gun inside a red circle slashed by a red diagonal line, the stickers state in dry legalese that concealed weapons, firearms especially, are forbidden on the grounds of the Ohio State University.
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The sentence-long clause starts out convoluted enough — "No Person held to Service or Labour in one State, under the Laws thereof" — before going on for another few dozen words of passive legalese to declare that slaves who escape even to free states will never be free.
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Using some standard legalese, the FCC responded by saying it "denies knowledge or information sufficient to form a belief as to the truth" of the Times' statement—that the record would help shed light on the extent of Russian involvement (whether that be some or not at all).
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Despite former New York city mayor Rudolph Giuliani's admission that the crafty legalese of the first order emerged only by purging previous drafts' overt anti-Islamic sentiment, the new order insists that the old order was intended to protect religious minorities seeking access to various American refugee programs.
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At oral arguments, long before the coronavirus broke out, some of the justices pressed the government on the relevant consequences -- referred to as "reliance issues" in legalese -- the Court should consider when determining whether the government did not follow proper procedures when seeking to shut down the program.
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Brimming with chill, non-Bonnie vibes and crowd-friendly, digestible legalese such as "What about the Sixth Amendment?" and "Not to mention they've got tons of conflict of interest," Frank successfully demands a subpoena for all of ADA Atwood's texts, phone calls, and emails on the day Wes' body was transferred.
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In addition to explaining some of the legalese, they can also help you decide what remedies you're looking for, such as ordering your abuser and/or stalker to stay away from you, requiring them to pay for your medical expenses, or, if you have children together, giving you temporary sole custody.
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I don't want to give away any spoilers for those who haven't watched the latest episode, but I did sit down with Gunderson partner Ivan Gavira to get his take on the Pied Piper saga, his craziest deal and why Silicon Valley continues to turn to him for tech legalese.
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WASHINGTON — The White House impeachment battle begins every day shortly after sunrise, when President Trump's press secretary, his acting chief of staff and a group of lawyers crowd into the wood-paneled second-floor office of Pat A. Cipollone, the White House counsel, to synthesize the latest Capitol Hill legalese.
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Related: The Law Firm That Works with Oligarchs, Money Launderers, and Dictators "In this system — our system — the slaves are unaware both of their status and of their masters, who exist in a world apart where the intangible shackles are carefully hidden amongst reams of unreachable legalese," John Doe wrote in their manifesto.
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By sneaking the changes through a vote via complicated legalese and the use of footnotes, the FCC has at least done us a favor in bringing it to everyone's attention that the rules are bullshit and require taxpayers to cough up more money if they want to guarantee their complaint will be taken seriously.
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Under the new rules, European users are able to request copies of the data that websites have on them or ask companies to delete that information; websites have to ask for permission to collect and share user data; and companies need to disclose their data practices in clear language, instead of obscuring them with legalese.
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Free Press policy Director Matt Wood argues that the rule changes, among other things, weaken language requiring the FCC set a hard deadline for ISPs to respond to informal consumer complaints, while also using crafty legalese to weaken the likelihood that the FCC will rush to consumers' aid during a billing or other dispute.
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That legalese about a standing national emergency adds the full force of a second sanctions law, the International Emergency Economic Powers Act, to create "an incredibly powerful global tool" to impose financial sanctions and visa bans, says Mr Berschinski, a former deputy assistant secretary of state for democracy, human rights and labour in the Obama administration.
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Global implications The Supreme Court's ruling spanned more than five hundred pages, drawing not only on Indian legalese and history, but also on Western political thought, citing the 19th century English philosopher John Stuart Mill's "On Liberty," as well as the writings of James Madison, the 4th President of the United States and co-framer of the American constitution.
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Guarav Laroia, Policy Counsel at consumer advocacy firm Free Press, told Motherboard that a major point of failure in this chain of dysfunction is the wireless industry's "notice and consent" approach to privacy, which involves throwing a page of complex legalese at users to sign, then aggressively misinterpreting that contract to mean user data can be widely shared.
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Instagram's terms of use state that the company doesn't have ownership of users' content, but when people post on Instagram they give the company "a non-exclusive, royalty-free, transferable, sub-licensable, worldwide license to host, use, distribute, modify, run, copy, publicly perform or display, translate, and create derivative works of your content"That legalese means Instagram can pretty much use your content as it wants, without seeking permission.
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More specifically, the app allows soon-to-be sex-havers to digitally sign a seven-point contract full of legalese like "from this point on, it shall be the responsibility of the parties listed in this Agreement to determine a clear way to communicate permissions and limits with each other, both before and during any sexual encounter they have, whether now or in the near future" (and if that doesn't make your panties wet, I don't know what will).
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Because humans hate being bored or confused and there are countless ways to make decisions look off-puttingly boring or complex — be it presenting reams of impenetrable legalese in tiny greyscale lettering so no-one will bother reading it combined with defaults set to opt in when people click 'ok'; deploying intentionally confusing phrasing and/or confusing button/toggle design that makes it impossible for the user to be sure what's on and what's off (and thus what's opt out and what's an opt in) or even whether opting out might actually mean opting into something you really don't want… What advertising hell on earth is this?
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Here's the legalese gobbledygook: A controller for interfacing wirelessly with a computing device is provided, including the following: a housing defined by a main body, a first extension extending from a first end of the main body, and a second extension extending from a second end of the main body, the first extension and the second extension for holding by a first hand and a second hand of a user, respectively; a touchscreen defined along the top surface of the main body between the first extension and the second extension; a first set of buttons disposed on the top surface of the main body proximate to the first extension and on a first side of the touchscreen; and a second set of buttons disposed on the top surface of the main body proximate to the second extension and on a second side of the touchscreen.
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