Summary
Anthropic PBC sued the U.S. Department of War in the Northern District of California, claiming the Department's designation of Anthropic as a supply-chain risk to national security was unlawful retaliation for refusing to remove safety limits on its AI model Claude that prohibit lethal autonomous warfare and mass surveillance of Americans.[1][3][6] The suit invokes the Federal Acquisition Supply Chain Security Act of 2018, Administrative Procedure Act, First Amendment, Fifth Amendment due process, and Bill of Attainder Clause, seeking declaratory and injunctive relief; a parallel petition was filed the same day in the D.C. Circuit, and the district court granted a preliminary injunction.[1][4][6] The case stems from the Department's contract cancellations, Claude removal from systems, and
Case details
- Court
- NDCA
- Docket number
- 3:26-cv-01996
- Filed
- Mar 9, 2026
- Status
- Active
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