D.C. Circuit Denies TikTok Petitions Over 1st Amendment Challenge To Federal Law

( December 6, 2024, 3:25 PM EST) -- WASHINGTON, D.C. — The District of Columbia Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals on Dec. 6 denied petitions filed by TikTok Inc., Tik Tok creators and a nonprofit promoting TikTok content seeking review of a federal law that promises to ban the popular social network absent a corporate ownership change, finding that provisions of the act related to the TikTok platform “are narrowly tailored to further” national security interests....