Procedural Motions Due June 6 in Petition for Review to Vacate U.S. TikTok Ban

Procedural motions, if any, are due June 6 in the TikTok/ByteDance petition for review challenging the constitutionality of the Protecting Americans From Foreign Adversary Controlled Applications Act and its impending U.S. TikTok ban (see 2405070045), said a clerk’s order Tuesday (docket 24-1113) in U.S. Appeals Court for the D.C. Circuit. Dispositive motions, if any, are due June 21, said the order. TikTok and ByteDance are challenging the ban on four constitutional grounds. The statute requires ByteDance to sell TikTok by mid-January for the platform to continue operating in the U.S., but the petition contends that such a divestiture is commercially, technologically and legally impossible.