Here is what Justices Brett Kavanaugh, Amy Coney Barrett, Kentanji Brown Jackson and Chief Justice John Roberts said about TikTok's Chinese parent company.
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.
The Supreme Court seems skeptical of the Chinese-owned platform’s First Amendment claim.
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 lawyer danced around the question but said there is no precedent for a foreign government being subject to U.S. free speech laws. He then used a series of analogies, and it didn't seem like the Supreme Court judges were impressed by his answer.
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 to ...
Log-in to bookmark & organize content - it's free! Attorney for TikTok and parent company ByteDance Noel Francisco provides the petitioner's argument for TikTok v. Garland (2025). Moot courts ...
Noel Francisco, who represents TikTok and its Chinese parent company, ByteDance, and served as Trump's solicitor general during his first term, began the arguments by stating that the ban singles ...
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.
Washington — The Supreme Court on Friday upheld a new law that would lead to a ban of the social media platform TikTok, clearing the way for the widely popular app to shutter in the U.S. as soon as Sunday.
The Supreme Court upheld a law that would effectively ban TikTok in the United States. Here's what to know about the potential ban.
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