Montanas

A Los Angeles landscaper who said he was viciously mauled by French Montana’s Tibetan Mountain Dog four years ago is demanding a $2.3 million default judgment against the rapper and record producer. Plaintiff Jason Leyva says the 2019 attack left him with lasting injuries affecting his professional prospects and ability to care for his young daughter. He says French Montana, whose legal name is Karim Kharbouch, hasn’t responded to his multiple attempts to serve him with the complaint, so the court should intervene…

The defeat of Montana’s TikTok ban in federal court could deter other lawmakers from moving ahead with efforts to block the popular video-sharing app facing bipartisan backlash. There was mounting scrutiny over TikTok before Montana Gov. Greg Gianforte (R) signed a law in May banning the app. House lawmakers grilled TikTok’s CEO in March as momentum and pressure built to ban the app. Dozens of states and the federal government followed up with narrower bans, restricting the TikTok from government-owned devices.…

A US Federal Judge blocked a Montana law Thursday that would have banned TikTok in the state starting on January 1st, arguing the bill is unconstitutional on the basis that it violates users’ right to free speech.“Even AI Rappers are Harassed by Police” | AI UnlockedU.S. District Judge Donald Molloy issued a temporary injunction to halt the law, saying it “violates the Constitution in more ways than one.” Molloy said the ban on the Chinese-owned app is permeated with a “pervasive undertone of anti-Chinese sentiment.”…

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TikTok on Monday filed a lawsuit challenging the state of Montana's new ban on the use of the Chinese-owned app, the first state to bar the popular short-video sharing service.TikTok argues the ban, which would take effect on January 1, violates the First Amendment rights of the company and users. The lawsuit, filed in US District Court in Montana, also argues the ban is pre-empted by federal law because it intrudes upon matters of exclusive federal concern and violates the Commerce Clause of the US Constitution, which…

Gianforte demanded that no electronic device issued by the state of Montana download any aforementioned apps by June 1. In December, Congress passed the No TikTok on Government Devices act, forcing the removal of TikTok on all federal-issued government devices.Also: Can Montana really ban TikTok?Many American lawmakers have been wary of TikTok for years, worrying that the app collects too much American user data and shares the data with the Chinese government. But according to U.S. House Representative Alexandria…

A group of TikTok users has sued the state of Montana in a bid to overturn its plan to ban the app from January 1, 2024. The complaint was filed on Wednesday evening in the U.S. District Court for the District of Montana just hours after Montana Governor Greg Gianforte (R) signed into law a bill banning the Chinese-owned app over concerns it could impact U.S. national security. In documents filed with the court, the group of five TikTok users said: “Montana has no authority to enact laws advancing what it believes…

Montana’s TikTok ban is now . Governor Greg Gianforte signed a bill banning the app in the state, one month after it was by the state’s legislature. The law is scheduled to take effect in 2024, though legal challenges could potentially delay that timeline. The law prohibits the company from operating in the state and requires app stores to block users in Montana from downloading TikTok. The app’s users won’t face repercussions for using the service, but app stores and TikTok face daily fines of $10,000 for violating the…

When Spencre McGowan, an herbalist and a cookbook writer in Butte, Montana, started posting on TikTok to help pull herself out of a “depressive funk” in 2021, she could have never imagined her quick, rustic videos of comforting food recipes and outdoor wanderings would net her an audience of 110,000 committed followers in less than two years. TikTok, seemingly overnight, became her primary platform for promoting her books and connecting with people that came to her for a sense of friendly familiarity—short, stress-free…

Montana lawmakers voted 54-43 today to ban TikTok from operating in the state and forbid app stores from offering it for download. The legislation is likely to become law, which would make Montana the first state in the US to ban the popular social media platform—a move that could spark a constitutional battle and endanger digital rights.People who already have TikTok on their devices would not be in violation of the law, which will now go to Greg Gianforte, Montana's Republican governor. The move comes after years of…