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Everyone in this case needs to calm down.

If these are accurate, there are some key changes at the top of the rankings -- including a new T14.

Elon Musk wants to keep laws short on Mars.

* Winston & Strawn revenue up 19 percent last year after securing a hefty contingency fee in the pink slime matter. Despite their victory, we suspect these lawyers are using their windfall on grass-fed free-range beef. [American Lawyer]

* In the continuing war on class actions as a lingering nuisance to our corporate overlords, the Supreme Court may be taking aim at cy pres settlements to "protect the class" by making class actions harder to pull together. [National Law Journal]

* The photographer from the horrendous decision ruling that embedded Tweets are copyright violations is fighting an effort by defendants to get an interlocutory appeal to clear up this travesty as quickly as possible. You know, to save the Internet. [Law360]

* In an article that manages to avoid any reference to Ready Player One, Rhys Dipshan considers the IP challenges facing widespread adoption of VR and AR products. As an example, the article considers what would happen if someone put that famous picture of Albert Einstein into the game. Perhaps the better question is why isn't that in the public domain and can VR be the technology that finally reverses the broken IP regime Sonny Bono dropped on us? [Legaltech News]

* Can California's sanctuary laws survive federal assault? Professor Noah Feldman says they should. [Bloomberg]

* Professor Tobias Barrington Wolff considers the sideshow of a career his Penn Law colleague Amy Wax has decided to pursue. [Faculty Lounge]

FULL DISCLOSURE, I LIKE KATY PERRY: I like her music, I like her politics, I like her sharks, I like how she handles nuns. THIS LAW SCHOOL WANTS TO BUY OUT FACULTY AND USE THE SAVINGS TO RECRUIT BETTER STUDENTS: Which is pretty much saying that they think students are marks and the school just […]

As hard as it may be to believe, there was a time when societies didn't like lawyers.

Having now decided to weigh in on this untimely topic, what does the ABA tell us?

He's got 99 problems and this IP case is definitely one of them.