Combating violations of religious freedom around the world has been a policy of the United States for the past several decades.
Now, victims of a state-sponsored religious persecution—allegedly facilitated by a U.S. tech giant—are hoping to use legal tools to deter such conduct and to advance the goal of combating violations of religious freedom.
The lawsuit, first filed in 2011 seeking damages from California’s Cisco and two top executives, alleged that the company helped the Chinese Communist Party build an Orwellian surveillance network called Golden Shield that advanced the violent suppression of Falun Gong practitioners in China.
The fate of the case, revived by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit in 2023, now rests with the Supreme Court, which in late April will hear Cisco’s bid to stave off the legal liability….