ai-procurement
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A federal appeals court ruled 2-1 on September 25 that the Department of War lawfully cut Anthropic's Claude out of its supply chain for refusing an 'all lawful uses' term, four weeks after a federal judge vacated its designation of Anthropic under a narrower statute and permanently blocked the government-wide ban, and the appeals court said it had 'no quarrel' with her conclusion that Anthropic acted without bad motive.
On September 25, 2026 the D.C. Circuit, 2-1, denied Anthropic's petitions for review (Nos. 26-1049 and 26-1162) of the Department of War's exclusion of Claude from its supply chain under 41 U.S.C. § 4713. The Department acted after Anthropic refused to drop contract bans on using Claude for lethal autonomous warfare and mass domestic surveillance. Judge Katsas, joined by Judge Rao, held that, at least as applied here, the statute's definition of supply-chain risk turns on what a supplier does to its product, not why, and that the exclusion was neither retaliation nor a due-process violation. Judge Henderson dissented. On August 27 Judge Rita F. Lin of the Northern District of California (No. 26-cv-01996-RFL) had ruled the other way on the separate 10 U.S.C. § 3252 designation and the President's government-wide directive. She vacated the designation and the implementing actions of nine agencies, GSA among them, and permanently enjoined the directives. Rehearing petitions may be filed until November 9, 2026; the default window to appeal the district judgment closes October 26.
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