Jury Trial Win Against Cognizant: In a class action discrimination case challenging Cognizant's preference for staffing Indian nationals in U.S. jobs (including H-1B visa employees), we won a two-week jury trial. The jury found that Cognizant intentionally discriminated against non-Indians who it benched and fired and that its discriminatory practices meet the standard for punitive damages. The case is now proceeding to "Phase 2," in which damages are awarded to class members victimized by Cognizant and Cognizant can raise individualized defenses. A Bloomberg News investigative article that profiles the case against Cognizant is available here.
What This Means For You: You received a Court-ordered notice of this case in 2023, and did not opt out of the class. The Court appointed our law firm, Kotchen & Low LLP, to represent you and over 2,000 other class members. Like you, all class members are non-Indians who Cognizant benched and fired (during the years 2013 to 2022). Having won the jury trial on your behalf, Kotchen & Low now needs to work individually with you to ensure that you are compensated for damages Cognizant caused you. Damages we will seek to recover include: punitive damages as well as compensation for unemployment after you were fired, lower salary/benefits earned from employers following Cognizant, any emotional distress, and other compensatory damages. While we'll need to work with you to calculate the precise damage amount we'll seek to recover for you, we anticipate seeking to recover significant damages for class members, including punitive damages. Next Steps: Kotchen & Low needs to work with you on your individual damage recovery. To that end, please send an email to [email protected] with the following information, all of which is confidential and protected by the attorney client privilege: -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Steve Beaver Sent: Wednesday, February 26, 2025 1:57 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Cognizant Cognizant just lost a massive class action lawsuit for discrimination. The non-Indians vs the Indians and Now Cognizant has to pay all the non-Indians. Should be interesting ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
