DOJ Urges Panel To Reject Bid To Stop Enforcement Of Act Banning TikTok In U.S.

( December 12, 2024, 2:22 PM EST) -- WASHINGTON, D.C. — The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) on Dec. 11 urged the District of Columbia Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals to reject motions for a temporary injunction filed by petitioners TikTok Inc., Tik Tok creators and a nonprofit seeking to stop the enforcement a federal law that promises to ban the popular social network on Jan. 19, 2025, absent a corporate ownership change, arguing that while the petitioners are entitled to seek the law’s enjoinment in the U.S. Supreme Court, they are not entitled to an injunction against a federal law when the Circuit Court rejected their challenge to that law....