Rita Lin, a US district judge in the Northern District of California, granted a preliminary injunction blocking the "supply chain risk" designation against Anthropic and the ban on federal agencies using its products. The record, she wrote, "strongly suggests that the reasons given for designating Anthropic a supply chain risk were pretextual and that their real motive was unlawful retaliation." What Anthropic had refused to give up were two conditions: that Claude not be used for mass surveillance of US citizens, and not for killing by autonomous weapons. The Pentagon did not comply. Emil Michael, under secretary of defense and chief technology officer, posted on X that the order contained "dozens of factual errors" and that the designation remained "in full force and effect" under the relevant statute and outside the court's jurisdiction. A Pentagon spokesperson declined to say more and pointed reporters to Michael's posts.