Court Halts Trump Administration’s Ban on Anthropic’s Claude AI for Federal Agencies U.S. District Judge Rita F. Lin issued the preliminary injunction on March 26, finding that the government’s actions against Anthropic likely violated the First Amendment, denied the company due process, and exceeded statutory authority under the Administrative Procedure Act. The ruling is stayed for seven days, giving the administration until approximately April 2 to file an emergency appeal with the Ninth Circuit. The dispute began when the Department of Defense (DoD) sought unrestricted access to Claude for federal use. Anthropic had long maintained two exceptions in its acceptable …