Here is what Justices Brett Kavanaugh, Amy Coney Barrett, Kentanji Brown Jackson and Chief Justice John Roberts said about TikTok's Chinese parent company.
Users in the U.S. who opened the app were greeted with a message that read, "Sorry, TikTok isn't available right now."
The first, Noel J. Francisco, who represents ByteDance, is a prominent conservative litigator who is now a partner at the Jones Day law firm. A graduate of the University of Chicago Law School, Mr. Francisco clerked for Justice Antonin Scalia and served in the White House and the Justice Department in the George W. Bush administration.
TikTok's attorney's on Friday reiterated the popular app will shut down, rather than make a last-minute deal to keep it active in the U.S.
Harvard University has hired another law firm to help it navigate a U.S. House investigation into its response to claims of pervasive antisemitism on campus, weeks after mounting criticism helped spur the resignation of Harvard president Claudine Gay.
The Supreme Court is hearing an appeal against a law that bans the video-sharing app in the country unless it is sold.
Congress labeled the app’s Chinese ownership a national security risk and passed a law that would ban the social media platform unless it was sold. TikTok and creators say that violates their free speech rights.
The Supreme Court seemed likely to uphold a new law that could force TikTok to shut down in the U.S., with conservative and liberal justices alike expressing skepticism about the legal challenge.
ByteDance has said it won’t sell the short-form video platform, and TikTok’s attorney Noel Francisco stated a sale might never be possible under the conditions set in the law. Francisco urged the justices to enter a temporary pause that would allow ...
After nearly three hours of Supreme Court arguments Friday morning, Americans are one step closer to learning whether a TikTok ban will take effect in nine days.
Noel Francisco, representing TikTok and ByteDance, argued that Supreme Court endorsement of this law could enable statutes targeting other companies on similar grounds. "AMC movie theaters used ...
In an unanimous ruling handed down on Friday morning, January 17 in TikTok v. Merrick B. Garland, the U.S. Supreme Court upheld a TikTok ban that is scheduled to go into effect on Sunday, January 19 unless ByteDance — the video sharing platform's owner in Mainland China — divests itself.