A US appeals court on Monday rejected a Justice Department request that it allow the government to immediately ban Apple and Alphabet’s Google from offering Tencent’s WeChat for download in US app stores.
A US appeals court on Monday rejected a Justice Department request that it allow the government to immediately ban Apple and Alphabet’s Google from offering Tencent’s WeChat for download in US app stores. The three-judge panel for the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals said in a brief order the government had not demonstrated it would “suffer an imminent, irreparable injury during the pendency of this appeal, which is being expedited.” On Friday, a US judge in San Francisco rejected a Justice Department request to reverse her decision preventing the WeChat ban sought by the US Commerce Department in response to a lawsuit filed by WeChat users.
