{"id":984623,"date":"2026-01-12T07:25:13","date_gmt":"2026-01-12T01:55:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=984623"},"modified":"2026-01-12T07:30:37","modified_gmt":"2026-01-12T02:00:37","slug":"us-supreme-court-to-hear-suit-claiming-cisco-helped-china-pursue-falun-gong","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/01\/12\/us-supreme-court-to-hear-suit-claiming-cisco-helped-china-pursue-falun-gong\/","title":{"rendered":"US Supreme Court to hear suit claiming Cisco helped China pursue Falun Gong"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>WASHINGTON: The U.S. Supreme Court on Friday agreed to hear an appeal by Cisco Systems in \u200dwhich the tech company and President Donald Trump&#8217;s administration are asking the justices to limit the reach of a federal law \u2060that has been used to hold corporations liable for human rights abuses committed abroad. <\/p>\n<p>Cisco has appealed a 2023 ruling that breathed new life into a 2011 lawsuit that accused the California-based company of knowingly developing technology that allowed China&#8217;s government to surveil and persecute members \u200cof the Falun \u200cGong spiritual movement.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WASHINGTON: The U.S. Supreme Court on Friday agreed to hear an appeal by Cisco Systems in \u200dwhich the tech company and President Donald Trump&#8217;s administration are asking the justices to limit the reach of a federal law \u2060that has been used to hold corporations liable for human rights abuses committed abroad. Cisco has appealed a 2023 ruling that breathed new life into a 2011 lawsuit that accused the California-based company of knowingly developing technology that allowed China&#8217;s government to surveil and persecute members \u200cof the Falun \u200cGong spiritual movement.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[59,4,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-984623","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-economic-times","category-newspapers","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/984623","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=984623"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/984623\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=984623"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=984623"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=984623"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}