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Anthropic battle against Defense Department designation moves to DC Circuit

By Mike Swift ( March 30, 2026, 15:52 GMT | Comment) -- Anthropic is pivoting its legal battle against the Trump Administration toward a federal appeals court in Washington DC. in the wake of a federal court case in which the judge used strikingly blunt language and evoked the dystopian 20th Century writer George Orwell in granting Anthropic's motion to block the Department of Defense's designation of the AI company as a supply chain risk. With a federal judge in San Francisco granting Anthropic’s motion to block the Trump Administration’s “Orwellian” bid to classify the AI company as a supply chain risk, attention is turning to the other prong of the case before a federal appeals court in Washington....

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