U.S. District Court Judge Carl Nichols announced Tuesday that he plans to hold a hearing on Nov. 4 on the U.S. government’s executive order banning Chinese short-form video software TikTok. This is a follow-up to the judge’s Sept. 27 decision to halt the U.S. Commerce Department’s order requiring Apple and Google to remove Chinese applications such as WeChat and TikTok from their online stores.
Reuters reports that President Trump’s executive order banning any business dealings with TikTok and its Chinese parent company, Byte Jumping, has a deadline of Nov. 12, and that Judge Niklas will decide whether to also block the ban.
Notably, the judge set a hearing date for TikTok’s injunction to be heard on November 3, one day after the U.S. general election.
As of now, ByteDance’s acquisition negotiations with Walmart and Oracle are still in the initial stages, and are pending approval by the US and Chinese governments. However, details of the process, particularly whether it will address U.S. concerns that Chinese software information processing threatens national security, remain unclear.
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