The Supreme Court has urged the court to allow a Human Rights Case against Cisco Systems (D Doe I et al) to proceed, arguing that it could encourage more corporations to sell out business ethics for money. The case accuses the California tech giant of knowingly developing a surveillance network for Beijing to target practitioners of Falun Gong, a spiritual movement the regime has persecuted heavily since 1999. The Supreme Court will decide if the 1789 Alien Tort Statute and the 1991 Torture Victim Protection Act allow for liability for international human rights violations. Lawyers for the plaintiffs argue that Cisco's approach would free corporations' liability regardless of their substantial contributions. However, Harold Hongju Koh, an international law professor at Yale Law School, who filed an amicus brief with the Supreme Court, said the allegations were "vastly overblown".