San Francisco Federal Court District Judge Rita Lin sided with Anthropic in its request for a preliminary injunction in its legal battle against the Trump administration, calling it “illegal First Amendment retaliation.”
This decision temporarily halts the government’s actions to blacklist the AI company and prevents the enforcement of a directive from President Donald Trump that bans federal agencies from using Anthropic’s Claude models.
“These broad measures do not appear to be directed at the government’s stated national security interests. If the concern is the integrity of the operational chain of command, the Department of War [Defense] could just stop using Claude. Instead, these measures appear designed to punish Anthropic,” the judge cited in a 42-page report.
The Judge noted that the defendant’s designation of Anthropic as a “supply chain risk” is both contrary to the law and arbitrary and capricious.
“Nothing in the governing statute supports the Orwellian notion that …Full story available on Benzinga.com
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