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From: j@utah-cs.UUCP (J Lepreau)
Newsgroups: net.jobs,net.legal
Subject: Re: Is this company breaking the law, Part II
Message-ID: <3696@utah-cs.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 26-Feb-86 02:23:11 EST
Article-I.D.: utah-cs.3696
Posted: Wed Feb 26 02:23:11 1986
Date-Received: Sat, 1-Mar-86 18:23:03 EST
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Reply-To: j@utah-cs.UUCP (Jay J)
Organization: University of Utah, Salt Lake City
Lines: 19
Keywords: contracts,indentured servitude,EDS
Xref: watmath net.jobs:1904 net.legal:3001
Summary: SEE A LAWYER!

This is ridiculous!!!  What EDS is doing certainly sounds illegal.  For
one thing, there are all sorts of reasons that signed contracts can be
held invalid, such as that they have provisions which violate state or
federal law, that they were made by parties too "unequal," or that fraud
was involved.  All of these seem like possibilities here.  So why are
you and your friend and his classmates wasting time asking the net, getting
just about zero information, then deciding to sit it out and suffer two
years of misery?  GO TALK TO A LAWYER OR THE LOCAL ACLU CHAPTER (if Utah has
one even Texas must), don't just sit around and complain-- that's the way
they get away with it!  Good grief.

(You mentioned that a concern was that not all the members of the class
would go to court.  So what?  In any case, no one has to, unless EDS takes
him there when he leaves and doesn't pay the $9000.  And EDS won't if the
employee is on solid legal grounds.  And no matter who sues whom, sounds
like there's a possibility of another kind of "class"-- a class-action suit.)

Jay Lepreau
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