Trump

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA San Francisco Division U.S. WECHAT USERS ALLIANCE, et al., Case No. 20-cv-05910-LB

Plaintiffs,

ORDER DENYING MOTION TO STAY

v. Re: ECF No. 68 DONALD J. TRUMP, et al., Defendants. 16 INTRODUCTION The government moves to stay the court’s preliminary injunction enjoining the government from (allegedly) effectively banning WeChat, a messaging, social-media, and mobile-payment app owned by the Chinese company Tencent Holdings Ltd.1 The government’s ban — implemented in the Secretary’s “Identification of Prohibited Transactions to Implement Executive Order 13943” — prohibited internet-services transactions (such as hosting services or distribution-and-maintenance services for downloads or updates) that enable WeChat’s functioning.2 The court preliminarily enjoined the Secretary’s ban because the plaintiffs (U.S.-based users of WeChat) met the standards for a preliminary injunction: they raised “serious…