{"id":2716,"date":"2018-03-13T09:00:48","date_gmt":"2018-03-13T13:00:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abovethelaw.com\/?p=494338"},"modified":"2018-11-23T18:48:05","modified_gmt":"2018-11-23T23:48:05","slug":"morning-docket-03-13-18","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abovethelaw.com\/legal-innovation-center\/2018\/03\/13\/morning-docket-03-13-18\/","title":{"rendered":"Morning Docket: 03.13.18"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/abovethelaw.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2012\/12\/Winston-Strawn-LLP-logo-Above-the-Law-blog.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"180\" height=\"100\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-212981\" \/>* Winston &amp; 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. [<a href=\"https:\/\/www.law.com\/2018\/03\/12\/winston-strawns-record-year-sees-revenue-rise-19-percent\/\">American Lawyer<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p>* 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 &#8220;protect the class&#8221; by making class actions harder to pull together. [<a href=\"https:\/\/www.law.com\/2018\/03\/12\/google-at-the-supreme-court-defends-settlement-that-would-leave-class-with-pennies\/\">National Law Journal<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p>* The photographer from the <a href=\"https:\/\/abovethelaw.com\/2018\/02\/federal-judge-ruined-the-internet-yesterday\/\">horrendous decision<\/a> 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. [<a href=\"https:\/\/www.law360.com\/newyork\/articles\/1021123\/photog-fights-quick-appeal-after-embedded-tweet-ruling?nl_pk=7a04086c-1ac7-401c-a921-6c3cacd41725&amp;utm_source=newsletter&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_campaign=newyork&amp;read_more=1\">Law360<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>* In an article that manages to avoid any reference to <em>Ready Player One<\/em>, 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&#8217;t that in the public domain and can VR be the technology that finally reverses the broken IP regime Sonny Bono dropped on us? [<a href=\"https:\/\/www.law.com\/2018\/03\/12\/virtual-and-augmented-realitys-legal-landmine-user-generated-data\/\">Legaltech News<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p>* Can California&#8217;s sanctuary laws survive federal assault? Professor Noah Feldman says they should. [<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/view\/articles\/2018-03-12\/california-s-pro-immigrant-sb-54-law-should-survive-trump-attack\">Bloomberg<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p>* Professor Tobias Barrington Wolff considers the sideshow of a career his Penn Law colleague Amy Wax has decided to pursue. [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.thefacultylounge.org\/2018\/03\/guest-post-by-tobias-barrington-wolff-the-provocateurs-toolbox.html\">Faculty Lounge<\/a>]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p class=\"summary\">* Winston &amp; 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. [<a href=\"https:\/\/www.law.com\/2018\/03\/12\/winston-strawns-record-year-sees-revenue-rise-19-percent\/\">American Lawyer<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p class=\"summary\">* 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 &#8220;protect the class&#8221; by making class actions harder to pull together. [<a href=\"https:\/\/www.law.com\/2018\/03\/12\/google-at-the-supreme-court-defends-settlement-that-would-leave-class-with-pennies\/\">National Law Journal<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p class=\"summary\">* The photographer from the <a href=\"https:\/\/abovethelaw.com\/2018\/02\/federal-judge-ruined-the-internet-yesterday\/\">horrendous decision<\/a> 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. [<a href=\"https:\/\/www.law360.com\/newyork\/articles\/1021123\/photog-fights-quick-appeal-after-embedded-tweet-ruling?nl_pk=7a04086c-1ac7-401c-a921-6c3cacd41725&amp;utm_source=newsletter&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_campaign=newyork&amp;read_more=1\">Law360<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p class=\"summary\">* In an article that manages to avoid any reference to <em>Ready Player One<\/em>, 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&#8217;t that in the public domain and can VR be the technology that finally reverses the broken IP regime Sonny Bono dropped on us? [<a href=\"https:\/\/www.law.com\/2018\/03\/12\/virtual-and-augmented-realitys-legal-landmine-user-generated-data\/\">Legaltech News<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p class=\"summary\">* Can California&#8217;s sanctuary laws survive federal assault? Professor Noah Feldman says they should. [<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/view\/articles\/2018-03-12\/california-s-pro-immigrant-sb-54-law-should-survive-trump-attack\">Bloomberg<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p class=\"summary\">* Professor Tobias Barrington Wolff considers the sideshow of a career his Penn Law colleague Amy Wax has decided to pursue. [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.thefacultylounge.org\/2018\/03\/guest-post-by-tobias-barrington-wolff-the-provocateurs-toolbox.html\">Faculty Lounge<\/a>]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":147,"featured_media":348161,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[272],"tags":[2940,102,2289,84,763,85,268,1034,490,448,7,2941,1602,2349],"class_list":["post-2716","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-morning-docket","tag-amy-wax","tag-biglaw","tag-class-actions","tag-copyright","tag-immigration","tag-intellectual-property","tag-morning-docket","tag-noah-feldman","tag-racism","tag-supreme-court","tag-technology","tag-tobias-barrington-wolff","tag-university-of-pennsylvania-law-school","tag-winston-strawn"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Morning Docket: 03.13.18 - Above The Law&#039;s Legal Tech Non-Event<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/abovethelaw.com\/legal-innovation-center\/2018\/03\/13\/morning-docket-03-13-18\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Morning Docket: 03.13.18 - Above The Law&#039;s Legal Tech Non-Event\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"* Winston &amp; Strawn revenue up 19 percent last year after securing a hefty contingency fee in the pink slime matter. 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