Div. Two of the First District Court of Appeal has held that a prevailing defendant in a representative action filed under the Private Attorneys General Act of 2004 for alleged violations of the Labor Code may not recover its costs against the state agency on behalf of which the plaintiff filed the claims where the organization did not participate in the litigation.

Justices Goodwin Liu and Kelli Evans recorded dissenting votes from the denial of review in four cases where the Courts of Appeal affirmed denials of resentencing petitions filed by defendants serving 40-years-to-life prison terms for crimes committed when they were under 18 years old.

(Subscription required) Claude is at the center of a putative class action by some of the largest music labels and publishers, which say Anthropic committed copyright infringement to train the AI tool.

More than half of the term’s cases (30 of the 53) will be argued during the last four of the term’s 11 oral argument sessions.