Countries can sign away their legal rights if they want.
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You can't sign away your right to a habitable apartment.
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There are no PRIDE or Strikeforce champions to sign away anymore.
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"The park's visitors literally sign away their DNA," Barrett reminds viewers.
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Many of the loans required borrowers to sign away their legal rights.
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Their families, meaning well and at their wit's end, sign away their freedom.
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Sasha Matthews, 13, didn't want to sign away the rights to her drawings.
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"But you had to sign away your life to him," Mr. Sztabnik said.
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In submitting their video however, users sign away a bunch of rights to their work.
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If it were, then no one would ever sign away their masters—but they do.
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Platforms are very good at encouraging users to sign away the rights to their data.
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Some brands have long demanded that agencies sign away rights to intellectual property they create.
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And Kelly is said to be reluctant to sign away her rights to speak freely.
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I had to sign away his rights and sit and wait for him during the surgery.
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Trump hotels, golf clubs and winery all require customers to sign away rights to join class actions.
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"When you join these companies, they make you sign away your constitutional right to sue," she says.
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But DoorDash required these delivery workers to sign away their right to bring a class action as well.
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She says a "Hustlers" producer, not Jennifer, contacted her to see if she would sign away her rights.
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"Wells Fargo's customers never intended to sign away their right to fight back against fraud and deceit," he said.
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Then he handed me a piece of paper and unceremoniously requested I sign away my Facebook and Twitter passwords.
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"When consumers sign up for internet service, they shouldn't have to sign away their right to privacy," the commission writes.
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In other words, they have to sign away the rights to sue the company for two weeks' worth of salary.
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A nursing home admission is stressful and confusing enough without your being asked to sign away your right to sue.
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Drivers usually sign away their rights to data in a small-print clause buried in the ownership or lease agreement.
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Don't ask your employees to sign away their rights to work in an entire industry, in any state, for 10 years.
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If The Real World compels contestants to sign away their right to sexual consent, what might Bachelor in Paradise have done?
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The process by which tribes "had been compelled to sign away most of their lands and settle on reservations" remains opaque.
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And, "The Circle" wants to be a cautionary tale of what life could be like if we voluntarily sign away our rights.
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As a Biden supporter tried to rip the sign away ("NAFTA killed our jobs"), the candidate urged everyone to keep it cool.
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It can be difficult to understand why a person would sign away the right to sue, even if doing so means freedom.
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She claimed a "Hustlers" producer, not J Lo, contacted her to see if she would sign away her rights, and she declined.
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Even worse, artists are asked to sign away all rights to sue the company, giving them no good options for contesting the deal.
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When Nichols wouldn't sign away the players' right to strike in a meeting on Wednesday, U.S. Soccer immediately moved forward with its lawsuit.
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With the Patriot Act, a lot of people were ready to sign away their rights to privacy in the name of national security.
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But Tesla wanted Balan to sign away her right to speak about her experience, and she found that troubling, so she never agreed.
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It feels very patriarchal that she must sign away her rights and her body, despite the fact that this is what her parents wanted.
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"Employees who are in a position of very little agency, power, are being forced, it would appear, to sign away their rights," he said.
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He was pushed into the gangster life and forced to run the streets for Mabel until she had him sign away his own soul.
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The first is to leave it to individual companies and allow them to choose not to force their employees to sign away their constitutional rights.
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Why it matters: The agreements force workers to sign away their right to take jobs in similar fields, often for months after leaving a job.
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It will argue that the Saudis are proud rulers and cannot be expected to sign away what they regard as their rights, and so on.
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Congratulations, you've been offered the jobs of your dreams — now just sign away any future career prospects for the next several years and it's all yours.
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The food delivery company DoorDash made its delivery workers sign away their right to sue if a legal dispute arises between a worker and the company.
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The contract also asks laid-off workers to sign away their right to sue the company over workplace issues and agree to a non-compete clause.
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Companies in California won't be able to force employees to sign away their ability to sue in exchange for a bonus or by sneaking it into other paperwork.
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Separately, the families of the Indonesia crash victims told us Lion Air pressured them to sign away their rights to sue in order to receive government-mandated compensation.
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They should hold that federal law does not authorize arbitration agreements where workers sign away basic protections, because those protections are part of the fabric of economic citizenship.
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That means the creators sign away most of their future revenue opportunities, which can mean tens of millions of dollars going to Netflix on the most successful shows.
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In a 17-minute audio message, one elderly Taliban ideologue voiced concern that negotiators were about to sign away the right to jihad, considered an important pillar in Islam.
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"A tech company that required employees to sign away that right would be in violation of federal labor law," said Daniel Hermel, a University of Chicago professor of law.
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In March, Yariv Katz, the lawyer who encouraged her to sign away her house, was among 11 people indicted for allegedly trying to defraud people out of their homes.
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I had been sober for over two years at the time I was coerced to sign away my parental rights, despite numerous accomplishments and evidence of a rehabilitated life.
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A New York Times study of the increasing use of arbitration clauses in contracts, which has effectively forced millions of people to sign away their right to go to court.
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Arbitration critics also say the system disadvantages employees and other individuals who sign away their right to the public justice system via agreements they typically have no role in drafting.
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You can also look for a bank that doesn't try to get you to sign away your right to sue, such as Bank of America, Capital One or TD Bank.
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"I would never sign away the rights to my genes," said Petter Pitts, the president of the Center for Medicine in the Public Interest and a Former FDA Associate Commissioner.
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To this, Professor Roberts and her co-authors counter that the young men who are invited to attend the combine are deeply vulnerable and likely to sign away their rights.
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And Crispin Porter Bogusky refuses to sign away IP rights — and is getting brands to change their approach 50 to 60% of the time, Chief Operating Officer Ryan Skubic said.
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The industry self-regulator warned its members that their customers can't sign away their FINRA arbitration rights in forum selection clauses – and insisted that banks and brokerages shouldn't ask them to.
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"NBC took the extraordinary step of having not only Nevils but also her lawyer and others close to her sign away their right to ever speak about the network," Farrow writes.
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To use a voucher, families are sometimes forced to sign away their child's legal rights, and the schools receiving the voucher often lack the experience or resources necessary to educate the child.
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Female student groups at prominent US law schools are cutting ties with law firms that force employees to sign away their right to sue over sexual harassment and other forms of discrimination.
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Many employees are required to sign away their right to this kind of thing and settle complaints through arbitration, a kind of accelerated legal procedure that tends to be very good for companies.
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"House Republicans Sign Away Their Seats," declared the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee which immediately launched a "digital holiday ad campaign" against 10 vulnerable Republicans in California highlighting their vote for the tax bill.
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It might be annoying that your clever story is sourced in a way you don't like, but you sign away the rights for your intellectual property the minute you tap that send button.
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At least these former students could take their complaints to court, an option that students at many other for-profit schools don't have because they have been asked to sign away their rights.
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For the (fortunately) uninitiated, forced arbitration occurs when you unwittingly sign away your constitutional right to a court trial (due to a clause that's typically hidden in the fine print of a contract).
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The U.S. Supreme Court will consider on Friday several cases asking it to decide whether companies can force employees to sign away their right to bring class actions as part of their arbitration agreements.
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President Obama's last three years in office were predicated on the principle that he could regulate, sign away and stretch the bounds of executive orders with impunity, disregarding the rightful constitutional role of Congress.
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The Obama administration had removed those agreements from its rule because they essentially forced to students to sign away their rights to sue and file federal claims, and shielded student complaints from the public.
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You can't sign away the rights of a child who hasn't been born, said Dov Fox, a law professor at the University of San Diego who specializes in bioethics and the regulation of technology.
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Mr Ortiz began by noting that countless companies already require new employees to sign away their right to file workplace grievances in court, where they might otherwise find common cause with similarly situated co-workers.
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But the programs amount to a kind of private justice: At a time when states are considering rewriting statute of limitations laws, sexual assault survivors must sign away their right to ever sue the Church.
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According to the lawsuit, prospective students for the sex scenes class had to audition on videotape — so that Franco could later review the material, they were told — and sign away their rights to these recordings.
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During the recent election campaign, opposition Labour party leader Jeremy Corbyn accused Prime Minister Boris Johnson of planning to sign away UK food and trade standards as part of a Brexit trade deal with Trump.
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"Republican Senators have created a new, partisan bill which leaves out many immigrant youth, requires us to sign away our day in court and walk on eggshells for 15 years," Ms. Martínez said in a statement.
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When you have a group of men in a room witnessing someone who inserted the word "pussy" into our common vernacular sign away access to health care for women around the world, patriarchy is the problem.
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Drivers say Liss-Riordan "struck a bad deal in their name" and that they stand to lose a "significant number" of protections and benefits if they are forced to sign away their rights under the current arrangement.
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The deals themselves also required unions to sign away their right to strike providing agreed milestones were met - another feat unlikely to be reproduced in France, where legal constraints on industrial action are fewer and hotly contested.
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For caring about popular votes and crowd sizes more than the American people #ThankYouTrump #ThankYouTrump for gathering together a bunch of old, white, GOP men to sign away women's rights in order to soothe your impotency issues.
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Why not act now and make it easy for us to freeze all three of our major credit files at once, for free, without having to sign away our legal rights or subject ourselves to the companies' ceaseless spam?
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It also provides an opportunity for survivors to seek justice without having to sign away their rights to discuss their cases, their settlements or their pain, like Lisa and other workers have done in the past just to resolve their cases.
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At some drive-throughs, McDonald's has tested technology that can recognize license-plate numbers, allowing the company to tailor a list of suggested purchases to a customer's previous orders, as long as the person agrees to sign away the data.
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As King, John would go on to surrender his royal lands in France, lose his priceless crown jewels in a Norfolk bog (never found) and sign away a vast chunk of his royal powers to rebel barons in the Magna Carta.
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For the next hour they tried to convince her that farmers from her village in eastern Myanmar should sign away ownership claims to land the farmers say they were granted the right to cultivate in perpetuity but was later seized by the military.
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Supreme Court delivered a blow to the rights of workers on Monday by allowing companies to require them to sign away their ability to bring class-action claims against management, agreements already in place for about 25 million employees.
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A federal appeals court on Thursday ruled that companies cannot force their employees to sign away their right to band together in legal actions, delivering a major victory for American workers and opening an opportunity for the Supreme Court to weigh in.
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Once you try solo living, you'll find it even harder to go back to living with roommates, even if you find yourself horrified by the amount of money you have to sign away each month and what that does to your budget.
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From sunset clauses to contracts giving managers a slice of gross income that didn't always have that much to do with their work, there were plenty of opportunities for young and naive musicians to sign away chunks of their advances and profits.
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"Wells Fargo's customers never intended to sign away their right to fight back against fraud and deceit," said Senator Sherrod Brown, an Ohio Democrat, who introduced a bill last week that would prevent Wells from forcing arbitration in the sham account cases.
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For decades, the Supreme Court has ignored economic power, protecting unlimited campaign spending as a form of speech, undercutting public-sector unions as burdens on the conscience of anti-union employees and upholding "voluntary" arbitration agreements that sign away workers' protections against abuse and exploitation.
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WASHINGTON, May 21 (Reuters) - The U.S. Supreme Court delivered a blow to the rights of workers on Monday by allowing companies to require them to sign away their ability to bring class-action claims against management, agreements already in place for about 25 million employees.
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With the new documents in place, IBM was no longer asking laid-off workers to sign away their right to complain about age bias so, the company's lawyers told the EEOC, the disclosure requirement in the 1990 amendments to the age act no longer applied.
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Her project, "Chief Joseph Series," composed of 36 small rectangular abstract paintings, refers to the Nez Percé leader who, in 1877, after refusing to sign away Indian land to the United States government, led his people on an arduous and ultimately thwarted exodus toward Canada.
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" Author Jacob Silverman writes: The big lesson learned for passengers: "We live, work, shop, and travel under a system of grossly asymmetric power relationships, in which consumers sign away most of their rights just by purchasing a ticket and companies deputize themselves to enforce contracts with hired goons.
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But everywhere strange stories are emerging: travelers turned away simply for getting a connecting flight through a Muslim country, one that isn't even on the list; legal US residents being forced to sign away their green cards; lawyers being denied access to those detained, even with a court order.
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Advertise on Hyperallergic with Nectar Ads Every year, thousands of teenagers submit their work to the annual Scholastic Art & Writing Awards — and, in doing so, they sign away the copyright of their submissions to the Alliance for Young Artists & Writers, which administers the contest, as the rules require.
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Curiously, Davidson was also the attorney used by former Playboy playmate Karen McDougal, who was given roughly the same amount of $150,85033 to sign away her rights to her story in what appears a "catch and kill" agreement with the National Enquirer and its owner (and Trump friend) David Pecker.
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On the night of her dark baptism, with the lunar eclipse taking place high in the sky, she kneels before a dark high priest in the middle of the forest and promises to "forsake the Path of Light for the Path of Night," and to sign away her life to the Dark Lord.
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Other members of Congress are promoting other bills that would force immigrant youth to sign away their right to a court hearing and to walk on eggshells for 15 years with the threat of deportation hanging over their heads, and yet others are talking about bills with all sorts of anti-immigrant provisions.
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Unlike influencers who built their followings online with heavily curated images, reality stars have no control over how they're portrayed on TV — they sign away all of those rights before filming, and have no idea whether they'll get the "villain edit" or the "goofy edit," reality-fan slang for the producers' influence on the stars' reputations.
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Ideally, they could sign a bunch of the 30-year-old Cy Young types on the free agent market, but in the 1980s the good pitchers mostly weren't there to be signed, either due to when they came up, personal choice, or this stupid (and illegal) thing called collusion, in which the owners agreed not to sign away each other's players.
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Facebook pays teens to install VPN that spies on them As well as offering up to $20 a month in incentivize teens to sign away their privacy, Facebook's program also included a referral scheme — which meant users could increase their 'earnings' by recommending a friend — aping the 'growth hacking' tactics deployed by app developers everywhere hoping to spark a viral run for their latest release.
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Just to give a few examples I can think of: an elderly consumer might sign away his or her right to a jury trial in obtaining a reverse mortgage; in entering into a viatical settlement for a fraction of the value of his or her life insurance; undergoing a hospital surgical procedure; or in purchasing pricey health insurance through one of the "consumer" groups fighting against the change to the nursing home arbitration rule.
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