Legion LegalTech, a San Jose AI litigation startup founded in 2024, filed suit in Washington D.C. on June 24 against the Commerce Department over the export control order that pulled Anthropic’s Fable 5 from foreign nationals. The complaint cites existential harm after Canadian developers on Legion’s team lost access overnight, and it’s the first commercial lawsuit targeting the Fable 5 blackout. The case puts a spotlight on how little protection AI startup contracts actually provide when a regu