D.C. Circuit Merges TikTok’s, Creators’ 1st Amendment Suits Over Nationwide Ban

(May 16, 2024, 8:14 AM EDT) -- WASHINGTON, D.C. — One day after a group of TikTok creators filed a petition for review of the newly passed federal law that promises to ban the popular social network absent a corporate ownership change, the District of Columbia Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals on May 15 consolidated the suit with a similar suit filed a week earlier by TikTok Inc., which also challenges the statute’s validity under the First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution....