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L. No. 118-50","paragraph_id":"para_5"},{"text":"Filed On: December 13, 2024","paragraph_id":"para_6"},{"text":"TikTok Inc. and ByteDance Ltd.,","paragraph_id":"para_7"},{"text":"Petitioners","paragraph_id":"para_8"},{"text":"v.","paragraph_id":"para_9"},{"text":"Merrick B. Garland, in his official capacity as","paragraph_id":"para_10"},{"text":"Attorney General of the United States,","paragraph_id":"para_11"},{"text":"Respondent","paragraph_id":"para_12"},{"text":"------------------------------","paragraph_id":"para_13"},{"text":"Consolidated with 24-1130, 24-1183","paragraph_id":"para_14"},{"text":"BEFORE: Srinivasan, Chief Judge; Rao, Circuit Judge; and Ginsburg, Senior","paragraph_id":"para_15"},{"text":"Circuit Judge","paragraph_id":"para_16"},{"text":"O R D E R","paragraph_id":"para_17"},{"text":"Upon considering the motions for a preliminary injunction of the Protecting","paragraph_id":"para_18"},{"text":"Americans from Foreign Adversary Controlled Applications Act, Pub. L. No. 118-50, div.","paragraph_id":"para_19"},{"text":"H, the response from the Government, and the replies from the petitioners, it is","paragraph_id":"para_20"},{"text":"ORDERED that the motions be denied. At the request of the parties, this court","paragraph_id":"para_21"},{"text":"expedited its consideration of the case “to ensure that there is adequate time before the","paragraph_id":"para_22"},{"text":"Act’s prohibitions take effect to request emergency relief from the Supreme Court.” Joint","paragraph_id":"para_23"},{"text":"Mot. to Set Briefing and Oral Argument Schedule 8 (May 17, 2024). Consistent with the","paragraph_id":"para_24"},{"text":"schedule proposed by the parties, on December 6, 2024 this court unanimously upheld","paragraph_id":"para_25"},{"text":"the constitutionality of the Act with respect to each claim presented by the petitioners","paragraph_id":"para_26"},{"text":"and denied as moot the petitioners’ alternative requests for a temporary injunction and","paragraph_id":"para_27"},{"text":"to appoint a special master.","paragraph_id":"para_28"},{"text":"The petitioners now seek a “temporary pause” in order “to create time for further","paragraph_id":"para_29"},{"text":"deliberation.” They argue the injunction will “permit the Supreme Court to consider this","paragraph_id":"para_30"},{"text":"case in a more orderly fashion” and “give the incoming Administration time to determine","paragraph_id":"para_31"},{"text":"its position on this exceptionally important matter.” The petitioners are not, however,","paragraph_id":"para_32"},{"text":"“merely seeking a stay of [this] court’s order, but an injunction against the enforcement","paragraph_id":"para_33"},{"text":"of a presumptively valid Act of Congress.” Turner Broad. Sys., Inc. v. FCC, 507 U.S.","paragraph_id":"para_34"},{"text":"1301, 1302 (1993) (Rehnquist, C.J., in chambers). Such a “temporary injunction against","paragraph_id":"para_35"},{"text":"United States Court of Appeals","paragraph_id":"para_36"},{"text":"FOR THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA CIRCUIT","paragraph_id":"para_37"},{"text":"____________","paragraph_id":"para_38"},{"text":"No. 24-1113 September Term, 2024","paragraph_id":"para_39"},{"text":"enforcement is in reality a suspension of an act, delaying the date selected by Congress","paragraph_id":"para_40"},{"text":"to put its chosen policies into effect.” Heart of Atlanta Motel, Inc. v. United States, 85","paragraph_id":"para_41"},{"text":"S. Ct. 1, 2 (1964) (Black, J., in chambers). 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