President Biden signed legislation that could ban TikTok into law in April, teeing up a countdown for the video-sharing app's sale.

A three-judge federal appeals court panel will hear ByteDance's fight to continue operating the video social media app TikTok in the United States without selling its assets.

Lawyers for the social media app TikTok were in federal court Monday to argue against a potential ban in the United States. The Biden administration signed a law in April that gave TikTok until mid-January to either decouple from its Chinese owner,

Lawyers for TikTok and parent company ByteDance will square off with the Justice Department in a Washington courtroom on Monday over the fate of a law that could ban the short video app used by 170 million Americans as soon as January 19.

A three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia will hold oral arguments on a legal challenge filed by TikTok and Chinese-parent company ByteDance that seeks an injunction barring the law from taking effect.