After former President Donald Trump’s Executive Order banning TikTok nationwide failed to hold up in court, states have been mounting their own legal challenges to the video-sharing platform.
This past week the company and its users scored wins on back-to-back days in two such cases in Indiana and Montana. Late Wednesday, TikTok’s lawyers, led by Megan Crowley and Emily Ullman of Covington & Burling, got rulings from a court in Indiana knocking out lawsuits brought by the state’s attorney general claiming the company misled users about the amount of content that’s inappropriate for children on the platform and the security of users’ personal information. A day later, with Covington’s Alex Berengaut representing Tiktok and Ambika Kumar of Davis Wright Tremaine representing users, a federal judge in Montana issued an injunction finding the state’s TikTok ban likely violates the First Amendment.
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