Judge grants Alibaba a reprieve from the lobbying ban tied to the Pentagon’s blacklist
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A federal judge ordered the Pentagon to give Alibaba temporary relief from the law that caused all its Washington lobbyists to drop it, while the court weighs the measure’s constitutionality. The case stems from Alibaba’s June addition to the Pentagon’s 1260H Chinese military companies list, which it is suing to escape. TNW has covered every prior beat of this saga, all interlinked.
A federal judge has ordered the Pentagon to give Alibaba temporary relief from a law that stripped it of every lobbyist it had in Washington, Bloomberg reports. The reprieve stands while the court considers whether the measure is constitutional.
The case is shaping up as a test of how far the US can go in curbing Chinese companies’ activities on American soil. Alibaba sued the Defense Department in San Jose last month after being added to the Pentagon’s Section 1260H list of alleged Chinese military companies.
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