In TikTok, Inc. v. Garland, the Court was asked to consider whether the Protecting Americans from Foreign Adversary Controlled Applications Act, as applied to petitioners, violates the First Amendment. The PAFACA requires that TikTok either cease operations in the United States or have its parent company ByteDance sell off the American segment of the company by January 19, 2025. Petitioners challenged the law as unconstitutionally abridging their freedom of speech, and after a lower court decision upholding the law, the Supreme Court granted cert on December 18, 2024.
Oral Argument was heard on January 10, 2025, and a decision came out on January 17, 2025.
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Darpana Sheth Nunziata, Public Interest Litigator