Sarah Seulki Oh

Defendants have long argued that Private Attorneys General Act (PAGA) claims can be unwieldy and that courts should strike such claims where individual issues make them unmanageable. In Estrada v. Royalty Carpet Mills, Inc., the California Supreme Court unanimously held that trial courts lack the inherent authority to dismiss PAGA claims — which seek civil penalties for violations of the California Labor Code on behalf of “aggrieved employees” — based on manageability.

The accessibility of generative AI tools is a broad and clear differentiating feature of the AI zeitgeist. Direct access gives people the opportunity to experiment and learn in real time what tools like ChatGPT and GPT are capable of—and, also importantly, what they are not yet good at.