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By MARK SHERMAN<\/strong><\/p>\n

WASHINGTON (AP) \u2014 The Supreme Court on Tuesday granted tech giant Cisco\u2019s bid to shut down a lawsuit claiming that the company\u2019s technology was used to persecute members of the Falun Gong spiritual movement in China.<\/p>\n

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The justices ruled that American courts are the wrong forum for the suits, rejecting arguments made by the plaintiffs that the suits should go forward under the 18th-century Alien Tort Statute (ATS) and the Torture Victim Protection Act (TVPA), first enacted in 1991.<\/p>\n

The decision was the latest to rule against plaintiffs seeking to use U.S. courts as a venue to seek justice over the acts of foreign governments, especially those that took place abroad. To try to overcome that skepticism, Falun Gong members argued that a substantial portion of Cisco\u2019s activities involving China took place in the United States.<\/p>\n

An Associated Press investigation last year showed that American tech companies, to a large degree, designed and built China\u2019s surveillance state, encouraged by both Republican and Democratic administrations, even as activists warned such tools were being used to quash dissent, persecute religious groups and target minorities. Last month, AP won the Pulitzer Prize in international reporting for its stories.<\/p>\n

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In 2008, documents leaked to the press showed Cisco saw the \u201cGolden Shield,\u201d China\u2019s internet censorship effort, as a sales opportunity. The company quoted a Chinese official calling the Falun Gong an \u201cevil cult.\u201d A Cisco presentation reviewed by the AP from the same year said its products could identify over 90% of Falun Gong material on the web.<\/p>\n

Other presentations reviewed by the AP show that Cisco represented Falun Gong material as a \u201cthreat\u201d and built out a national information system to track Falun Gong believers. In 2011, Falun Gong members sued Cisco, alleging the company tailored technology for Beijing that it knew would be used to track, detain and torture believers.<\/p>\n

At arguments in April, Justice Sonia Sotomayor said Cisco \u201cknew that those people will be tortured.\u201d A lawyer for the company said, \u201cCisco vigorously disputes those allegations.\u201d<\/p>\n

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