'Dawn of the Planets of the Apes' Trailer: It's Not Looking Good for Humans

BY LANCE ULANOFF

Dawn of the Planets of the Apes will clearly be darkest for the humans.

In the second installment of this re-imagining of the 46-year-old Planet of the Apes movie franchise, humans and apes finally go to war. In 20th Century Fox's new trailer, half the planet has been wiped out since scientists accidentally unleashed the Simian Flu on unsuspecting humans. Now, human survivors live in their burnt-out relics of homes, and the highly evolved apes live deep in the forest.

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Illinois Domestic Workers Deserve Protection From Sexual Harassment

Sheerine Alemzadeh Become a fan 

Attorney at the Chicago Alliance Against Sexual Exploitation; Co-founder of the Chicago-based Coalition Against Workplace Sexual Violence

Sheerine Alemzadeh

This legislative session, Illinois lawmakers have the opportunity to pass the Illinois Domestic Worker Bill of Rights, which acknowledges that domestic workers are "employees" under the Illinois Human Rights Act, the state law prohibiting workplace sexual harassment. Illinois' domestic workers currently have no legal ground to stand on when they are sexually harassed on the job. This bill would finally give one of Illinois' most vulnerable and most vital workforces the same protections against harassment as other employees.

Sexual harassment is endemic in low-paid industries, but domestic workers face specific risks. They work in private homes, often in complete isolation. Many perform the grueling emotional labor of caregiving, which like other service industries can lead to abusive demands and expectations from clients. They work in underpaid and unregulated conditions. The National Domestic Workers Survey, which interviewed over 2,000 domestic workers from 14 metropolitan areas across the U.S., showed that 67 percent of live-in domestic workers are paid under the state minimum wage and 35 percent of domestic workers reported working long hours with no breaks.

Inequality begets exploitation, as poor conditions chill domestic workers from asserting their rights and losing the little pay they do receive. Ninety-one percent of domestic workers surveyed did not complain about their working conditions in the 12 months prior to being interviewed because they were scared of losing their jobs. Eighty-five percent of undocumented domestic workers specifically reported fear of immigration retaliation.

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U.S. 7th Circuit Court of Appeals Summary

Hanover Ins. Co. v. Northern Bldg. Co.

Docket: 13-2675	Opinion Date: May 8, 2014
Judge: Kanne
Areas of Law: Construction Law, Contracts, Government Contracts, Insurance Law

Northern, operated by VanDuinen, was a general contractor on public construction projects, legally required to obtain surety bonds. Hanover was Northern’s bonding agent and required Northern to enter into an Indemnity Agreement, which VanDuinen signed in his individual capacity and as Northern’s President. The Midway Airport Project was financed by the FAA and managed by Parsons. In 2008 Northern won the bid and began subcontracting. in 2009 subcontractors complained that Northern failed to pay them in accordance with the bonds and contracts. Work was halted, resulting in a separate complaint, by Parsons, for failure to complete the Project as required. The FAA opted to retain possession of remaining contract funds, $127,086.00, pending resolution of the disputes and completion of the work. Hanover received claims from subcontractors McDaniel ($127,452.78) and Rex Electric ($78,495.00) and a claim for performance from Parsons. Hanover demanded collateral under the Agreement. Northern refused to post collateral or to indemnify Hanover. In 2009 McDaniel filed for bankruptcy; the bankruptcy trustee sued Hanover seeking payment for work performed. In 2012, Hanover paid the trustee $127,452.78 to resolve both McDaniels’s and Rex Electric’s claims. Hanover resolved Parson’s claim by stepping in as general contractor and arranging for completion of the Project. Parsons paid Hanover the $127,086.00 of contract funds the FAA had withheld. Hanover sued Northern and VanDuinen. The district court granted summary judgment in Hanover’s favor. The Seventh Circuit affirmed. The Agreement is unambiguous. Northern breached it, and Hanover is entitled to contractual damages.

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Internet Law Summary

In re: Zynga Privacy Litigation

Court: U.S. 9th Circuit Court of Appeals

Docket: 11-18044, 12-15619

Opinion Date: May 8, 2014

Judge: Ikuta

Areas of Law: Internet Law

Plaintiffs filed suit against Zynga and Facebook under the Wiretap Act, 18 U.S.C. 2511(3)(a), and the Stored Communications Act, 18 U.S.C. 2702(a)(2), two chapters within the Electronic Communications Privacy Act of 1986 (ECPA). Plaintiffs alleged violations of the ECPA based on Facebook and Zynga's disclosure of the information contained in referer headers to third parties. On appeal, plaintiffs argued that the district court erred in holding that Facebook, Zynga, and the third parties were the intended recipients of the referer headers containing the user's Facebook IDs and the URLs. The court held that under the ECPA, the term "contents" refers to the intended message conveyed by the communication, and does not include record information regarding the characteristics of the message that is generated in the course of the communication. The referer header information that Facebook and Zynga transmitted to third parties included the user's Facebook ID and the address of the webpage from which the user's HTTP request to view another webpage was sent. This information does not meet the definition of "contents," because these pieces of information are not the "substance, purport, or meaning" of a communication. Therefore, the court concluded that plaintiffs have failed to state a claim because they did not allege that either Facebook or Zynga disclosed the "contents" of a communication, a necessary element of their ECPA claims. Accordingly, the court affirmed the district court's dismissal with prejudice.

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Earthquake today - 3.2 quake strikes near Cabazon, Calif.

A shallow magnitude 3.2 earthquake was reported Thursday evening three miles from Cabazon, Calif., according to the U.S. Geological Survey. The temblor occurred at 9:49 p.m. Pacific time at a depth of 11.2 miles.

According to the USGS, the epicenter was eight miles from Banning, 11 miles from Palm Springs, 13 miles from Desert Hot Springs, and 269 miles from Phoenix.

In the past 10 days, there have been no earthquakes magnitude 3.0 and greater centered nearby.

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