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  • Moreover, rights as "low" as the right to divorce or file bankruptcy or to be free from reckless gross negligence have routinely been held to be inalienable or unwaivable by any contract or act of any person.

    Germany bans computerized voting; will hand count in 2009 2009

  • Bill of Rights, Magna Carta, Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citzen, what have you, the underlying idea is the same: some unwaivable amount of sovereignty remains to the individual.

    The Volokh Conspiracy » Islamofascism: 2007

  • It can accept as rights both unwaivable rights (the possession of which may be good for their holders) and the rights of incompetents (who have interests that rights can protect).

    Rights Wenar, Leif 2007

  • Within the will theory there can be no such thing as an unwaivable right: a right over which its holder has no power.

    Rights Wenar, Leif 2007

  • Also, if the termination provision is unwaivable, that might imply that abandonment is no longer possible.

    IP Scholars conference, first parallel session Rebecca Tushnet 2006

  • a Philadelphia lawyer who assists companies in drafting arbitration clauses, says that in many state courts, "unfortunately, there is an orientation towards doing things to protect the plaintiffs 'trial bar, including ruling that consumers, in effect, have an unwaivable right to bring a class action."

    Recent Rulings 2008

  • You either have waivable free speech rights, such that you can contract with an employer to not say certain things as a condition of employment, or you have unwaivable free speech rights and your employer can’t contractually oblige you to not say certain things.

    The Volokh Conspiracy » Orwellian? 2009

  • If these rights were made unwaivable by statute, such a persisting link between author and work might improve the author's bargaining power, "it said.

    The Register 2010

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