Cisco Systems, Inc. v. Doe · ¶78

This case succeeds at each of Sosa’s steps. At step one, there is no dispute. Respondents allege that Cisco aided and abetted the violation of seven international-law norms: torture; cruel, inhuman, or degrading treatment; forced labor; prolonged and arbitrary detention; crimes against humanity; extrajudicial killing; and forced disappearance. See 73 F. 4th, at 713. Before this Court, Cisco does not make any arguments at all at step one. See Brief for Petitioners 17. It does not dispute that all seven norms are specific, universal, and obligatory, as required by Sosa. Nor does it dispute that international law recognizes aidingand-abetting liability, either in general or as a substantive part of each of these seven norms.

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