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Law360 Reports on Norton Law Firm’s Representation of The Freedom Economy Business Association in Anthropic PBC v. U.S. Department of War Cases in DC Circuit and in N.D. California
As noted in the Law360 article “Amici Chide Trump Admin For Calling Anthropic A Security Risk,” the Norton Law Firm filed amicus briefs on March 15, 2026 on behalf of the Freedom Economy Business Association and a group of values-led investors in support of Anthropic PBC.
The association is part of a broad coalition including civil liberties groups, tech industry associations, former national security officials, investors, and ethicists, that have filed amicus briefs backing Anthropic in its challenge to the Trump administration’s designation of the company as a national security “supply chain risk,” widely criticizing the move as unlawful, retaliatory, and destabilizing for the tech sector.
In its review of the amicus briefs filed by Norton Law, Law360 reported that the association and the investors emphasized the consequences of the government’s actions: “Reasonable investors cannot operate in this environment. All investments, especially with government contractors, are now clouded by the threat that the administration can, at any time and for any reason, designate an American company as an adversary and seek to destroy it.”
The cases are Anthropic PBC v. U.S. Department of War, et al., case number 26-1049 (D.C. Cir.) and Anthropic PBC v. U.S. Department of War, et al., case number 3:26-cv-01996-RFL (N.D. Cal.). The co-authors of the briefs include Fred Norton, Josephine Petrick, Celine Purcell, Hayley Landman, Heather Bates, and Saja Spearman-Weaver, with support from paralegal Celeste Peifer. The briefs are available here and here.
Read “Amici Chide Trump Admin For Calling Anthropic A Security Risk” here. (Subscription may be required.)