Asia Tech Wire (Aug 7) -- TikTok and its Chinese parent ByteDance Ltd. on Monday asked a U.S. appeals court to reject a request by the U.S. Department of Justice to secretly file some court documents.

The DOJ filed a court paper on July 26 asking the court to dismiss TikTok's application for judicial review of the "sell-or-ban" law, which the company initiated in May.

In the document, the DOJ said it would provide the court with a confidential intelligence before oral arguments on Sept. 16, which TikTok would not have access to.

ByteDance and TikTok objected to this and said that unless they could review the U.S. government's evidence, they would not be able to rebut factually incorrect arguments, much less demonstrate to the court why the U.S. government's arguments and evidence were legally insufficient.

U.S. President Joe Biden signed a decree on April 24 requiring ByteDance to sell TikTok by Jan. 19, 2025, or else bar the short-video platform from continuing to operate in the U.S. market.