TikTok Asks Court to Pause Ban as App Seeks Supreme Court Appeal

TikTok Asks Court to Pause Ban as App Seeks Supreme Court Appeal
A man holds a phone displaying the TikTok app on Aug. 11, 2024. Oleksii Pydsosonnii/The Epoch Times
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TikTok and parent company ByteDance asked a court on Dec. 9 for an emergency injunction of the law that would require TikTok to sell to a non-foreign adversary-owned company by Jan. 19, 2025, or cease operating in the United States.

A three-judge panel for the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia had last week upheld the Protecting Americans from Foreign Adversary Controlled Applications Act that petitioners challenged as unconstitutional, continuing the 270-day sale-or-ban countdown.