The confrontation between TikTok and the u.s. government would begin in September. The court of Appeals of the District of Columbia has ordered the proceedings before that court shall hear the parties. At the beginning of this month, the chinese made an appeal requesting the cancellation of the law, which requires that a sale within a maximum of twelve (12) months.
The process is fast
With a speed quite unusual, and the two branches of the Congress of the United States passed the Act for the Protection of Americans from the Application of the Controlled Opposition of the International c.m.th. The law, which requires ByteDance to sell the TikTok companies or the companies of the usa, within a period of 270 days, and extended by the President of the united states. for 90 days only if the negotiations have already started (billionaire Frank McCourt is one of the potential buyers of the potential).
Therefore, the company is chinese should be the end of the sale until the 19th of January, 2025. The leaders of the TikTok stating that the operation could not be completed within the 12 month period for reasons of technical, commercial and legal. In any case, the law should be deemed unconstitutional because it conflicts with the First Amendment of the Constitution. For this reason, it is made of a complaint, with the purpose of blocking the implementation of its own.
Taking into account the short term, the court of appeals has adopted a procedure for the rapid, setting hearings, the first of September. In addition to the representatives of TikTok, and the u.s. Department of Justice, and the will to be heard, even in the eighth, the creator of the material that is reported to the government of the united states.
According to the programme, TikTok, and the Department of Justice are required to submit reports on their respective, up to the 20th and the 26th of June, and the answers following should be taken up on August 15. TikTok he believes that the issue can be resolved without requiring a preliminary injunction to suspend temporarily the application of the law. The two sides expressed the hope that the decision will be up on the 6th of December, so that they can be referred to the supreme Court.
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