“The plaintiffs filed their lawsuit in 2011. The following year, in 2012, Cisco first published its Global Human Rights Policy.”
In Cisco v. Doe, the Supreme Court ruled that tech companies can’t be held liable under the Alien Tort Statute for aiding abuses unless Congress says so. Fifteen years of litigation ends with nothing. Cisco got a human rights policy a year after it was sued. The victims got a dismissal.