Like so many of this administration's actions, unfortunately...

The opinion is quite straightforward, and the evidence on the government's side was entirely nonsense, essentially.

https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.cand.46...

Presumably this is going to lead to anthropic getting a big payday from the US gov for all the time their flagship product was banned and all the users they lost due to it

The case is not about that though

Unlawful means absolutely nothing these days.

It's the Gish gallop applied to a legal/legislative system - it just can't keep up with the sheer volume of cases that would need to be brought to curtail even the worst of it and that's assuming that if/when it eventually gets in front of the supreme court that that "august" body actually does curtail it.

Yes - because the system is trying to prevent the flood by piling up sticks instead of removing the source of water.

It's in failure mode (intentionally, is my read) because while it might eventually declare "x is not legal" at no point is it discouraging the people who did X (and have now also done y, z, 1, 2, and 3 - all also likely illegal) because there is zero actual accountability at the personal level.

If your house is flooding from a broken pipe... you don't bail. You turn the water off.

Right, like the student debt forgiveness. We hate the ones we disagree with and we love the ones we agree with.

I don’t know, the $166B in refunds returned to importers after the IEEPA tariffs were ruled unlawful by the Supreme Court seem pretty meaningful

"When the president does it, that means that it is not illegal."

"It depends on what the meaning of the word 'is' is"