Participants hold signs in support of TikTok during a press conference outside the U.S. Capitol on March 12, 2024 in Washington, DC.
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A U.S. appeals court on Tuesday set a fast-track timetable to consider legal challenges to a new law that requires China’s ByteDance to divest TikTok’s U.S. assets by January 19 or face a ban.
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia ordered oral arguments in the case in September after TikTok, ByteDance and a group of TikTok content creators joined the Justice Department in asking the court for a quick schedule earlier this month.
On May 14, a group of TikTok creators filed a lawsuit to block a law that would ban 170 million Americans from using the app, saying the law would “have an impact on American lives” after TikTok and parent company ByteDance filed similar lawsuits. had a profound impact.”
According to the appeals court’s timeline, the creators, TikTok and ByteDance must file legal briefs by June 20, file legal briefs with the Justice Department by July 26, and file reply briefs by August 15 .
TikTok said that with the expedited timeline, it believed it could resolve the legal challenge without requesting emergency preliminary injunctive relief.
TikTok and the Justice Department have sought a ruling by Dec. 6 to seek Supreme Court review if needed.
The law, signed by President Joe Biden on April 24, gives ByteDance until January 19 to sell TikTok or face a ban. The White House stated that it would like to see China end its ownership of TikTok due to national security concerns, but does not want to ban TikTok.
App stores like this are prohibited by law apple and alphabet Google Ban the provision of TikTok and prohibit web hosting services from supporting TikTok unless ByteDance spins off TikTok.
The measure overwhelmingly passed Congress just weeks after it was proposed, amid concerns among U.S. lawmakers that China could access Americans’ data or spy on them through the app.
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