BCLP Files Amicus Brief In Support Of Anthropic's First Amendment Rights

Amicus Brief for Taxpayers Protection Alliance Foundation (TPAF) supports Anthropic’s challenge to administration's supply chain risk designation.

Partner David B. Schwartz, Appellate Practice Group Co-Leader Barbara Smith-Tyson, and Associate Jessica Limbaugh drafted and filed an amicus brief on behalf of the Taxpayers Protection Alliance Foundation (TPAF) in support of protecting Anthropic’s core First Amendment-protected expression.

In its amicus brief, TPAF argues that the D.C. Circuit should grant Anthropic’s petition for review because the government’s actions violate the First Amendment, threaten the free market, ignore the plain meaning of the relevant statute, and lack an intelligible principle, all of which will harm American taxpayers. In particular, the TPAF amicus brief points out that the government’s actions deny Anthropic the necessary scale to grow and compete with other global competitors, despite the import of AI to the U.S. economy and U.S. taxpayers.