TikTok raises concerns about NC lawsuit’s impact on state businesses
TikTok’s latest filing at the North Carolina Supreme Court raises concerns about the business impact of a lawsuit pursued by state Attorney General Jeff Jackson.
North Carolina Attorney General Jeff Jackson’s office is defending the state’s lawsuit against TikTok in a state Supreme Court filing.
TikTok and parent company ByteDance are urging North Carolina’s highest court to throw out a lawsuit pursued by state Attorney General Jeff Jackson.
TikTok is asking the North Carolina Supreme Court to reverse a lower court's recent decision allowing a state lawsuit to proceed against the social media giant. TikTok and corporate parent ByteDance filed a notice of appeal Friday with North Carolina’s highest court.
A North Carolina Business Court judge will allow the state to continue pursuing its lawsuit against TikTok and corporate parent ByteDance. A court order Tuesday denied TikTok’s motions to dismiss the case on various grounds.
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North Carolina Attorney General Jeff Jackson’s office is defending the state’s lawsuit against social media platform TikTok. The company filed a motion in January to dismiss the state’s suit.
North Carolina had already joined a growing wave of states taking action against TikTok amid broad concerns over national security and data privacy.
The US Supreme Court has upheld a federal law set to take effect Sunday that bans American companies from working with TikTok unless operation of the social media platform is severed from Chinese control.
TikTok is seeking to dismiss a lawsuit Gov. Josh Stein filed against the social media company when Stein served as North Carolina’s attorney general. The motion to dismiss arrived in North Carolina Business Court Friday. On the same day the US Supreme Court heard oral arguments in a federal case challenging a congressional ban against TikTok if it refuses to divest from its Chinese parent company.
NC is one of 13 states suing TikTok over children's mental health concerns.
Ever since Rep. Mike Gallagher (WI-8) introduced House Resolution 7521 — formally known as the Protecting Americans from Foreign Adversary Controlled Applications Act — early last month, there has been a whirlwind of responses: United States Sen. Thom Tillis, Republican of North Carolina, received a voicemail threatening his life if he voted in favor of...