A US appeals court has denied TikTok's emergency request to block a law requiring its Chinese parent company, ByteDance, to divest the app by 19 January 2025 or face a nationwide ban. ByteDance filed the motion earlier in the week, seeking more time to argue their case in the US Supreme Court. Without judicial action, the company warned that the law could lead to the shutdown of TikTok, which has over 170 million monthly US users. The court noted that the petitioners did not provide any previous cases where a court halted an Act of Congress after rejecting a constitutional challenge.
In an update, Reuters reports that TikTok has launched a last-resort effort on Monday, 16 December, to ask the US Supreme Court for a temporary block a law intended to force ByteDance a law requiring its Chinese parent company, ByteDance, to divest the app by 19 January 2025 or face a nationwide ban. Then on Wednesday, The Guardian revealed that the court would hear TikTok’s challenge. The court would set aside two hours for oral arguments on 10 January to consider TikTok’s lawsuit against the justice department and the attorney general, Merrick Garland.
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