US Court of Appeals hearing on TikTok ban The US Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia will hold oral arguments on TikTok's legal challenge of a US law requiring China-based ByteDance to sell TikTok's US assets by Jan.

Lawyers for TikTok and parent company ByteDance will square off with the Justice Department in a Washington courtroom on Monday over the fate of a law that could ban the short video app used by 170 million Americans as soon as Jan.

Judges are considering the validity of legislation that could shut down the Chinese-backed app used by half of Americans.

Video-sharing app TikTok and a group of its users faced a skeptical federal appeals court during oral arguments Monday in a bid to overturn a law that would mandate the company’s U.S. subsidiary be sold or face a ban,

TikTok will be in federal court on Monday, aiming to block a new law that will ban the popular video app in the United States early next year.

TikTok’s survival in the U.S. is riding on the outcome of the hearing. Federal judges peppered both the Justice Department and TikTok with skeptical questions about the ban, which takes effect in January.

TikTok faced pushback in a federal court on Monday in its efforts to stop a law that requires the app to divest from its Chinese ownership or face a ban in the United States.

A court is hearing oral arguments Monday in TikTok's challenge to a law that could lead to the app being banned in the U.S. The legislation passed by Congress requires TikTok to divest from its Chinese-owned parent company,