Tiktok, Inc. v. Garland
U.S. Supreme Court · decided January 17, 2025 · Supreme Court Database (Spaeth)
- Decided
- January 17, 2025
- Term
- October Term 2024
- Vote
- 9–0
- Issue area
- First Amendment
- Disposition
- Affirmed
- Outcome
- Petitioning party lost
- Ideological direction
- Conservative
Opinion excerpt
(Slip Opinion) Cite as: 604 U. S. ____ (2025) 1 Per Curiam NOTICE: This opinion is subject to formal revision before publication in the United States Reports. Readers are requested to notify the Reporter of Decisions, Supreme Court of the United States, Washington, D. C. 20543, pio@supremecourt.gov, of any typographical or other formal errors. SUPREME COURT OF THE UNITED STATES _________________ Nos. 24–656 and 24–657 _________________ TIKTOK INC., ET AL., PETITIONERS 24–656 v. MERRICK B. GARLAND, ATTORNEY GENERAL BRIAN FIREBAUGH, ET AL., PETITIONERS 24–657 v. MERRICK B. GARLAND, ATTORNEY GENERAL ON APPLICATIONS FOR INJUNCTION PENDING REVIEW TO THE UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA CIRCUIT [January 17, 2025] PER CURIAM. As of January 19, the Protecting Americans from Foreign Adversary Controlled Applications Act will make it unlaw- ful for companies in the United States to provide services to distribute, maintain, or update the social media platform TikTok, unless U. S. operation of the platform is severed from Chinese control. Petitioners are two TikTok operating entities and a group of U. S. TikTok users. We consider whether the Act, as applied to petitioners, violates the First Amendment. In doing so, we are conscious that the cases before us in- volve new technologies with transformative capabilities. This challenging new context counsels caution…
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