A U.S. appeals court on Tuesday set a fast-track schedule to consider the legal challenges to a new law requiring China-based ByteDance to divest TikTok’s U.S. assets by Jan. 19 or face a ban.
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia ordered the case for oral arguments in September after TikTok, ByteDance and a group of tiktok content creators with the Justice Department earlier this month in asking the court for a quick schedule.
On May 14, a group of TikTok creators filed a suit to block the law that could ban the app used by 170 million Americans, saying it has had “a profound effect on American life” after TikTok and parent company ByteDance filed a similar lawsuit.
Under the appeals court schedule, the creators, TikTok and ByteDance must file legal briefs by June 20 and the Justice Department by July 26, with reply briefs due by Aug. 15.