These includes a proposal for legislation preventing the use of public money in settling sexual harassment claims, removal of forced
arbitration provisions from employee contracts and a requirement that companies doing business with the state disclose the number of sexual harassment adjudications and nondisclosure agreements they've carried out.
Not exact matches
Subject to the
arbitration provisions above, and other than small claims actions as permitted therein, any action or proceeding arising
from, relating to or in connection with these Terms of Service will be brought exclusively in the federal or state courts located in New York, New York, and you irrevocably consent to the personal jurisdiction of such courts and agree that it is a convenient forum and that you will not seek to transfer such action or proceeding to any other forum or jurisdiction, under the doctrine of forum non conveniens or otherwise.
Clayton said he requested the review «in response to the recent heightened interest
from Congress and others relating to the inclusion of mandatory
arbitration provisions in the charters or bylaws of U.S. companies contemplating an IPO.»
This
provision shall not prevent either party
from filing a petition in court to confirm an
arbitration award.
If either you or we choose or elect
arbitration of any claim, dispute, or controversy, (which may be without the other's consent), any claim, dispute or controversy by either you or us against the other (or against the employees, parents, subsidiaries, affiliates, beneficiaries, agents or assigns of the other) arising
from or relating in any way to your Account, transactions on your Account, our relationship, this Agreement or any
provisions of this Agreement, any prior Agreement, any disclosures, advertising, or application (hereafter «Claim» or «Claims»), including Claims regarding the applicability or validity of this
arbitration clause, shall be resolved exclusively and finally by binding
arbitration.
Except as expressly provided herein, any claim, dispute or controversy (whether based upon contract; tort, intentional or otherwise; constitution; statute; common law; or equity and whether pre-existing, present or future), including initial claims, counter-claims, cross-claims and thirdparty claims, arising
from or relating to (i) the Card; (ii) any service relating to the Card; (iii) the marketing of the Card; (iv) this Cardholder Agreement, including the validity, enforceability, interpretation, scope, or application of the Agreement and this
arbitration provision (except for the prohibition on class or other non-individual claims, which shall be for a court to decide); and (v) any other agreement or instrument relating to the Card or any such service («Claim») shall be decided, upon the election of you or the Bank (or Green Dot Corporation or the Bank's agents, employees, successors, representatives, affiliated companies, or assigns), by binding
arbitration pursuant to this
arbitration provision and the applicable rules and procedures of the
arbitration administrator in effect at the time the Claim is filed.
d. Exceptions to Negotiations and
Arbitration - You and Digital Extremes agree that the following Disputes are not subject to the above
provisions concerning informal negotiations and binding
arbitration: (1) any Disputes seeking to enforce or protect, or concerning the validity of, any of your or DE's intellectual property rights; (2) any Dispute related to, or arising
from, allegations of theft, piracy, invasion of privacy or unauthorized use; and (3) any claim for injunctive relief.
Some employers force employees to sign mandatory
arbitration agreements as a term of employment (or continued employment) and then use those
provisions to force employees» discrimination or sexual harassment cases into
arbitration hearings and away
from court trials.
49 (1) Despite the
arbitration provision in a collective agreement or deemed to be included in a collective agreement under section 48, a party to a collective agreement may request the Minister to refer to a single arbitrator, to be appointed by the Minister, any difference between the parties to the collective agreement arising
from the interpretation, application, administration or alleged violation of the agreement, including any question as to whether a matter is arbitrable.
The shipowners contended that the insurers» claim — arising as a result of rights of subrogation
from the charterers of the vessel, who also owned the jetty — fell within the
arbitration provision contained in the charterparty.
Provisions that allows for more efficient case management, including consolidation of related
arbitrations and joinder of additional parties, as well as an increase in the claim amount for the expedited
arbitration from KRW 200,000,000 to KRW 500,000,000.
Moreover, the waiver of immunity contended for was an implied waiver, said to arise
from the
arbitration agreement itself where it was agreed that the Award was to be «binding on the parties» and included a
provision that the parties undertook «to carry out any Award without delay and should be deemed to have waived their right to any form or recourse insofar as such waiver can validly be made».
Plaintiffs» lawyers
from Lieff Cabraser Heimann & Bernstein and Robert Klonoff confront the fitness device company's mandatory
arbitration clause head on, claiming not only that the
provision does not bind class members but that it is itself an illegal trade practice.
These Rules shall govern the
arbitration except that where any of these Rules is in conflict with a
provision of the law applicable to the
arbitration from which the parties can not derogate, that
provision shall prevail.
Therefore, the working group has proposed removing those
provisions from the new Uniform Act, leaving the obligation to stay and refer to
arbitration all matters that are subject to
arbitration.
As detailed above, late in the Court of Appeal proceedings, McGill asserted that the
arbitration provision purports to preclude her
from seeking public injunctive relief in any forum.
Some encouragement can be derived
from provisions such as s 42 of the English
Arbitration Act 1996, which explicitly allows courts to mandate compliance with tribunals» orders (albeit only as long as there is no agreement by the parties to the contrary and the seat of the
arbitration is in England or Wales), and recent US case law under the Federal
Arbitration Act in support of enforcement of tribunals» determinations relating to disclosure.
National
arbitration statutes generally contain only limited
provisions on disclosure and recognise parties» autonomy to determine procedural issues, while institutional rules usually give tribunals a wide discretion in relation to disclosure, ranging
from ordering parties to produce any documents they consider relevant (Art 22 (1)(e), LCIA Rules), to granting them a general mandate to establish facts through appropriate means (Art 25, ICC Rules).
Assignments will arise
from a hypothetical
arbitration over the proper interpretation of a
provision in a collective bargaining agreement between a sports organization and its players» union..
15 In summary, the Employer said that, absent a collective agreement or statutory
provision, an Employer can engage in surveillance of an employee and use the video
from that surveillance in
arbitration.
Although, it was pointed out on behalf of the Appellant that in Rule 1.1 it had been stated that if any of the SIAC Rules was in conflict with the mandatory
provision of the applicable law of the
arbitration,
from which the parties could not derogate, the said mandatory
provision would prevail, such is not the case as far as the present proceedings are concerned.
If they fail to do so and the Acts
arbitration provisions are applied by the National Native Title Tribunal, the native title parties lose an opportunity to obtain compensation related to the profits or income derived
from a mining operation.
Instead of insulating the collaborative process
from court and the adversarial process, an
arbitration provision brought a form of court directly into the process.
The responsibility of the Association and of Association Members relating to the enforcement of the Code of Ethics, the disciplining of Member, and the
arbitration of disputes, and the organization and procedures incident thereto, shall be governed by the Code of Ethics and
Arbitration Manual of the NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF REALTORS ®, as amended
from time to time, which by this reference incorporated into these Bylaws, provided, however, that any
provision deemed inconsistent with Pennsylvania law shall be deleted or amended to comply with Pennsylvania law.