the City of Webster v. Mary Jennette Jackson Hunnicutt

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• holding release signed by applicant in exchange for obtaining security guard job valid and barred suit against employer’s client, owner of nuclear power plant, for injuries from fall during patrol
• stating that continued employment constitutes sufficient consideration for a release of claims
• upholding employee’s agreement to waive third-party claim based on Massachusetts' workers’ compensation law, Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 152, § 15, which contains no provision similar to section 39
• employees represented by a union “surrender the ability to bargain directly with their employer on those matters governed by a collective bargaining agreement”
• published decisions express the opinion of the entire court and are binding upon subsequent panels
• continued employment constitutes sufficient consideration for a release of claims

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