# Appeals Court Upholds the Pentagon's Supply-Chain Risk Label on Anthropic

A 2-1 panel of the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit found the Department of Defense had ample support for treating Claude's built-in refusals as a national-security risk covered under the relevant statute.

- Published: 2026-09-27T06:30:19.445Z
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The United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit ruled 2-1 on Friday that the Department of Defense may keep its supply-chain risk designation on Anthropic, a designation that bars the military and its contractors fro…

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