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.

(Subscription required) In Orange County, defendants can reserve earlier summary judgment hearing dates, an established policy aimed at reducing trial delays in line with longstanding appellate precedent.