The Supreme Court has agreed to take up an appeal from tech giant Cisco seeking to shut down a lawsuit claiming that the company’s technology was used to persecute members of the Falun Gong spiritual movement in China. The justices said Friday they will review an appellate ruling that would allow the lawsuit against Cisco to go forward in U.S. courts. Arguments will take place in the spring. The court acted after the Trump administration weighed in on Cisco’s behalf to urge the justices to hear the case. An Associated Press investigation last year showed that Cisco and other American tech companies to a large degree designed and built China’s surveillance state, despite warnings the tools were being used to persecute religious groups.
