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On July 30, three other states, including New York and

Oct. 2, 2018 by Carolyn Mueller

On July 30, three other states, including New York and Nevada, joined the lawsuit. (In its defense, Defense Distributed said it was responding to the TrO because of "a few specific concerns"), but the government has so far refused to budge on the issue.

On July 31, the federal court in Washington issued a final TRO that the government must keep under wraps until it does its version of the case.

Defense Distributed's lawyers have a few months to respond to all of the TRO requests before they can get to the court. For now, only a handful of lawsuits are on the books. But when the Justice Department takes the TRO to court, it'll have to make the case to the court's highest court.

On Wednesday, the DOJ announced that it could no longer provide a "temporary restraining order" to Defense Distributed, citing a federal court ruling that the company's files could be available to print. The DOJ also announced that it would no longer be able to provide a "temporary restraining order" to the company's lawyers after the company's lawyers requested a restraining order in September 2018.

In a statement, the Justice Department said that it was aware of the TRO but was only seeking to preserve the legal rights of the plaintiffs. "We have been aware of the TRO and that we have agreed to provide the court with a brief and final answer on whether or not we have fulfilled our legal obligation to comply with the temporary restraining order," the statement read.

The filing comes just days after an Arizona court ruled that Defense Distributed's files were protected under the First Amendment. And on Monday, a federal judge in Seattle ordered that the company stop publishing their files and other files about the lawsuit.