Montana’s statewide ban of TikTok should be blocked because it violates the First Amendment and the commerce clause and it’s preempted by federal law, the company argued Monday in a lawsuit filed with the U.S. District Court for Montana in Missoula in docket 9:23-cv-00061-DLC.
TikTok and ByteDance removed to U.S. District Court for Western Arkansas in El Dorado Tuesday a complaint filed March 28 in Union County Circuit Court in which Arkansas Attorney General Tim Griffin (R) alleges Tik Tok and its parent company are duping Arkansas consumers about the risks that the Chinese government may gain access to their personal data.