The Biden administration emphasized that the law serves critical national security objectives, both by safeguarding American user data and by preventing potential manipulation of the content seen by TikTok’s users in the U.S.
TikTok and ByteDance were represented by Noel J. Francisco and Hashim M. Mooppan of Jones Day, Andrew J. Pincus and Avi M. Kupfer of Mayer Brown LLP, and Alexander A. Berengaut, David M. Zionts, Megan A. Crowley, John E. Hall, and Anders Linderot of Covington & Burling LLP.
The TikTok users challenging the law were represented by Jeffrey L. Fisher and Joshua Revesz of O’Melveny & Myers LLP, as well as Ambika Kumar, Tim Cunningham, Xiang Li, Elizabeth A. McNamara, Chelsea T. Kelly, James R. Sigel, and Adam S. Sieff of Davis Wright Tremaine LLP.
The federal government was represented by Solicitor General Elizabeth B. Prelogar and attorneys from the U.S. Department of Justice, including Edwin S. Kneedler, Sopan Joshi, Mark R. Freeman, Sharon Swingle, Daniel Tenny, Casen B. Ross, Sean R. Janda, and Brian J. Springer.
