UPDATE 2-US Supreme Court weighs claims Cisco aided Chinese human rights abuses
Published on: April 28, 2026, 10:42 p.m. | Source: Devdiscourse
The justices heard arguments in Cisco's appeal of a lower court's 2023 ruling that breathed new life into the 2011 lawsuit, brought under the Alien Tort Statute of 1789, that accused the company of knowingly developing technology that allowed China's government to surveil and persecute Falun Gong members. The court has a 6-3 conservative majority, and some of its conservative justices signaled agreement with the stance taken by Kannon Shanmugam, the lawyer for Cisco, during the arguments.
