A federal appellate court based in Washington, D.C., with jurisdiction over appeals from the D.C. district court and many federal agency rulings.
The D.C. Circuit on September 25 upheld Reactor-based tracing testimony and affirmed Roman Sterlingov's 150-month Bitcoin Fog sentence. Vendors with closed code now have a ruling to cite, though the review was deferential and the case had other evidence.
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Anthropic petitioned the full D.C. Circuit on Oct. 13 to rehear a Sept. 25 panel ruling, decided 2-1, that upheld the Pentagon's supply-chain-risk label on the company. The court has not yet said whether it will hear the case.
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Anthropic lost a 2-1 appeals ruling on the Pentagon's supply-chain-risk label, so the department's contractors still cannot use Claude. Civilian agencies can still buy from Anthropic after a California ruling the government did not appeal, so contractors serving both have to follow the stricter Pentagon rule.
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Prosecutors say the ruling upholding Bitcoin Fog's founder makes one Tornado Cash user's Manhattan transactions enough to try Roman Storm in New York. If Judge Katherine Polk Failla agrees, a mixer developer could be tried wherever one user deposits into the pool.
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Pentagon says it has stopped using Anthropic's Claude after a phaseout that, per the BBC, overran Pete Hegseth's six-month deadline. Because Claude was built into Palantir's Maven, taking it out was harder than cutting off access to a chatbot.
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Anthropic says canceled contracts and halted partnerships could cost it billions as its supply-chain-risk label and federal ban reach past defense work. Even at $2 billion, the loss would be ten times the Pentagon deal it refused, carried through vendors that sell to both markets.
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D.C. Circuit judges voted 2-1 to uphold the Pentagon's blacklisting of Anthropic over limits the company set on how Claude can be used. Investors weighing a listing discussed near $2 trillion now have to price a defense lockout that an appeals court has found lawful.
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Anthropic failed on September 25 to get the D.C. Circuit to block the Pentagon's supply-chain-risk label, in a ruling CNBC reported as 2-1. Under the court's April order the bar covers only contractors' work for the department, so a Claude exit plan can be scoped to those contracts.
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Federal appeals judges voted 2-1 to uphold the Pentagon's blacklisting of Anthropic over the limits it puts on how Claude can be used. Teams with Claude inside military deliverables should budget for a replacement while Anthropic weighs further review.
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DC Circuit judges ruled 2-1 that Claude's built-in restrictions justified the Pentagon's supply-chain risk label on Anthropic. For contractors running Claude on Defense Department work, a model's refusals are now a procurement question as well as a policy one.
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A federal judge blocked both the renaming and the renovation closure, holding that only Congress can rename what Congress created. The Trump-appointed trustees voted Tuesday to close anyway, and the appeal is pending.
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The rule the US Copyright Office set out in January 2025 survived the D.C. Circuit and then a 2026 cert denial, which leaves your defensible ownership in the editing, selection and arrangement you can actually point to.
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The Supreme Court's June 30 refusal to stay the order keeping her in office leaves Part 3 publishable, a document that binds no court but that plaintiffs appealing the 9th Circuit's fair-use holdings would cite in every brief.
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The Defense Department wanted Anthropic's terms rewritten to permit all lawful uses. Anthropic said no, lost federal agencies and contractors for months, and now has a district court calling that ban illegal.
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The administration wants the Supreme Court to let a $400 million project Congress never funded proceed while it appeals. Chief Justice Roberts gave the plaintiffs until Tuesday to respond.
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