Gus Hurwitz on the TikTok Case Before the Supreme Court

Gus Hurwitz December 20, 2024

ICLE Director of Law & Economics Programs Gus Hurwitz was quoted by the USA Today in a story about the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision to hear TikTok’s appeal of its challenge to a law that would force divestment by the company’s Chinese ownership. You can read the full piece here.

“This is the sort of government regulation of speech that the First Amendment is intended to prevent,” said Gus Hurwitz, a senior fellow at the University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School. “But this is the set of facts and circumstances where the court is most likely to nonetheless allow that regulation.”