US court denies TikTok’s plea to stop likely ban until Supreme Court review
Al Jazeera
TikTok spokesperson says the company’s Chinese owners plan to take its case to the Supreme Court.
A United States federal appeals court has rejected a request by the social media platform TikTok to halt enforcement of a law requiring the company’s Chinese owners to divest or face a ban in the country until the Supreme Court reviews its challenge of the statute.
In a decision issued on Friday, the court rejected TikTok’s request, calling it “unwarranted”.
The court’s – unsigned – order said TikTok had not identified precedents where a court, “after rejecting a constitutional challenge to an Act of Congress”, stopped the Act from being implemented until a Supreme Court review is sought.
Lawyers for TikTok and its owner ByteDance had requested the injunction after a panel of three judges on the US Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit sided with the US government and rejected their challenge to the law.
In the request, the lawyers had asked for a “modest delay” in enforcing the law so the Supreme Court could review the case and the incoming Trump administration could “determine its position” on the matter.
