About this site

What this site is

An explainer and litigation tracker for Anthropic PBC v. U.S. Department of War, a single underlying dispute litigated in three federal forums:

• The merits action in the Northern District of California (3:26-cv-01996-RFL).
• A parallel petition for review in the D.C. Circuit (26-1049), targeting the FASCSA letter.
• The government's interlocutory appeal of the preliminary injunction in the Ninth Circuit (26-2011), currently stayed.

The site is intended for readers who know law but not this case. It does not take a litigation position. Where the editor's view is necessary — for example, in weighting which docket entries are "high importance" — that judgment is flagged and traceable to the underlying data files in this repository.

Methodology

Every fact on the site lives in a YAML or MDX file under data/ or content/. The build process reads those files; there is no database. The long-form explainer on the overview page traces directly to a memo synthesized from the complaint and Judge Lin's PI opinion. The doctrinal substance lives at /law; press coverage and commentary at /press.

Docket entries are mirrored from CourtListener's RECAP archive. The importance flag on each entry is heuristic and is reviewed and adjusted manually. No filing is auto-summarized by AI — humans write every annotation that appears on the site.

Updates and corrections

The site updates as the litigation moves. A change log is at /updates. CourtListener docket alerts are active on all three dockets, and a daily monitor surfaces new filings for editorial review.

To suggest a correction, open an issue on the project's GitHub repository or email mark.j.williams@vanderbilt.edu.

Use and license

Prose on this site is licensed CC BY 4.0. Code is MIT-licensed. Government filings reproduced here are public-domain works of the federal government; third-party amicus briefs and commentary excerpts are reproduced under fair use.