Trump’s 9th Circuit Appeal Of WeChat Ban Ruling Voluntarily Dismissed

Mealey's (August 17, 2021, 12:37 PM EDT) -- SAN FRANCISCO — In the wake of the revocation of a Trump era ban of certain uses of the WeChat social media app in the United States, a Ninth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals panel on Aug. 9 granted a motion by the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) to voluntarily dismiss the government’s appeal of a ruling that had preliminarily enjoined enactment of the now-defunct executive order establishing the ban....