TikTok CEO Shou Zi Chew thanked Donald Trump for his commitment to "finding a solution" that keeps TikTok available in the U.S. after the ruling.

In an unanimous ruling handed down on Friday morning, January 17 in TikTok v. Merrick B. Garland, the U.S. Supreme Court upheld a TikTok ban that is scheduled to go into effect on Sunday, January 19 unless ByteDance — the video sharing platform's owner in Mainland China — divests itself.

Noel Francisco, representing TikTok and ByteDance, argued that Supreme Court endorsement of this law could enable statutes targeting other companies on similar grounds. "AMC movie theaters used ...

The Supreme Court seems skeptical of the Chinese-owned platform’s First Amendment claim.

Trump filed a surprise brief urging the Supreme Court to delay enforcement until he could broker a deal — though it’s unclear if the Chinese government would approve one. Tiffany Cianci was finishing a TikTok live stream to 70,

The Supreme Court is hearing an appeal against a law that bans the video-sharing app in the country unless it is sold.

TikTok's lawyer danced around the question but said there is no precedent for a foreign government being subject to U.S. free speech laws. He then used a series of analogies, and it didn't seem like the Supreme Court judges were impressed by his answer.

The first, Noel J. Francisco, who represents ByteDance, is a prominent conservative litigator who is now a partner at the Jones Day law firm. A graduate of the University of Chicago Law School, Mr. Francisco clerked for Justice Antonin Scalia and served in the White House and the Justice Department in the George W. Bush administration.

"We go dark. Essentially, the platform shuts down," TikTok lawyer Noel Francisco told the Supreme Court last week. The company also plans to give users an option to download all their data so that ...

an attorney for TikTok, Noel Francisco, told the Supreme Court on Friday that he expects that if the law is upheld, the app would "go dark - essentially, the platform shuts down," when the ...

The Chinese-owned social media company could shut down its U.S. subsidiary Jan. 19 if the high court upholds the law.

Chief Justice John Roberts convened the court for arguments in TikTok's challenge. Noel Francisco, who is arguing on behalf of the platform, will present TikTok's case first. He has two minutes to ...