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Civil Litigation

Jul. 17, 2023

Lawsuit filed by former TikTok officer is moved to federal court

Yintao Yu’s claims of potential copyright infringement raised a federal question under the Copyright Act and thus the suit is “within the [federal] court’s original and exclusive jurisdiction,” counsel for ByteDance wrote.

A former TikTok Inc. executive who accused the company of being a propaganda tool for the Chinese Communist Party had his wrongful termination lawsuit removed from state to federal court by attorneys for TikTok’s parent company, ByteDance Inc.

Yintao Yu, the plaintiff and former head of engineering for ByteDance’s U.S. Offices, sued the company in San Francisco, claiming he was fired for raising concerns about the company’s potential infri...

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