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* 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]
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* What rights do you have to strike on International Women’s Day? [NY Mag]
* Amazon drops its objections to the Echo warrant, meaning if you own an Echo (or any of its ilk), you now have a wiretap in your house. Congratulations. [Corporate Counsel]
* Blank Rome boosts profit 22 percent. Associates looking at their below market paychecks must feel super psyched about that. [Legal Intelligencer]
* Judge Posner is just comparing everything to cats now and that’s perfectly fine. [Law.com]
* Looks like the NCAA and power conferences are going to shell out millions in settlement cash to former athletes in financial aid collusion case, which they’ll make back several times over by the end of the month. [Courthouse News Service]
* Penn accepts big gift from Charles Koch to work on criminal justice research, presumably an extension of his support for indigent legal services, but we can’t rule out a plan to make convicts fight to the death for sport. [Law.com]
* Just your standard slave labor case in 2017. [Law360]
* Lynne Stewart has passed away at 77. [New York Times]