US Supreme Court to hear claims Cisco aided Chinese human rights abuses
Published on: April 28, 2026, 3:32 p.m. | Source: Devdiscourse
The court in a series of decisions since 2013 has limited the reach of this law, making it more difficult to hold American corporations legally liable for human rights abuses. The justices will hear arguments in Cisco's appeal of a 2023 ruling that breathed new life into the 2011 lawsuit, brought under the Alien Tort Statute, that accused the company of knowingly developing technology that allowed China's government to surveil and persecute Falun Gong members.
