Supreme Court will hear Cisco’s appeal in Falun Gong lawsuit

The Supreme Court agreed to hear Cisco’s bid to stave off a long-running lawsuit alleging the tech giant aided the Chinese government’s persecution of the Falun Gong spiritual movement. The 2011 lawsuit is brought by a group of Chinese nationals and a U.S. citizen who say they or their family members are Falun Gong practitioners who suffered torture, forced labor or other abuses while detained in China. They claim Cisco and two of its…