US Supreme Court rules 8-1 that federal courts cannot create new human rights lawsuits against tech firms aiding foreign abuses.
“Today, we close the door that Sosa cracked and hold that courts may not create new causes of action for violations of international norms,” Barrett wrote, referring to the court’s 2004 precedent in Sosa v. Alvarez-Machain. ” The litigation originated from a lawsuit brought by unnamed practitioners of Falun Gong, a religious movement banned by the Chinese government.
detention, and torture, aided in part by surveillance and networking infrastructure-specifically the “Golden Shield” project-engineered and sold by San Jose-based Cisco Systems and its top executives. While a federal district court initially dismissed the complaint, the U. S.