Infosys wins US visa lawsuit
22 Aug 2012 7:57 AM IST
The Infosys victory in federal court in Alabama may deter potential copycat lawsuits against Indian companies and the mere possibility of litigation should not scare away businesses from investing in the US, an eminent Indian American lawyer has said.
‘Infosys's victory in federal court may very well have a chilling effect on potential copycat lawsuits against Indian companies,’ a Birmingham-Alabama-based attorney with Haskell Slaughter Young & Rediker, Jagdesh Kirpalani, said after a federal court dismissed harassment charges against the IT major by one of its American employee Jack Jay Palmer.
Noting that some blogs and news outlets misapprehended the litigation as a whistleblower case, he said the plaintiff's case against Infosys was not a whistleblower, or qui tam, action.
‘Simply put the plaintiff's case was an employment case alleging claims founded in contract and tort. The plaintiff failed to establish that Infosys breached a contract with him.’ US District Judge Myron H Thompson said, 'Judgement is entered in favour of defendants Infosys Technologies Limited Incorporated and Infosys Limited and against plaintiff Jack 'Jay' Palmer, Jr., with plaintiff Palmer taking nothing by his complaint.
‘Infosys's victory in federal court may very well have a chilling effect on potential copycat lawsuits against Indian companies,’ a Birmingham-Alabama-based attorney with Haskell Slaughter Young & Rediker, Jagdesh Kirpalani, said after a federal court dismissed harassment charges against the IT major by one of its American employee Jack Jay Palmer.
Noting that some blogs and news outlets misapprehended the litigation as a whistleblower case, he said the plaintiff's case against Infosys was not a whistleblower, or qui tam, action.
‘Simply put the plaintiff's case was an employment case alleging claims founded in contract and tort. The plaintiff failed to establish that Infosys breached a contract with him.’ US District Judge Myron H Thompson said, 'Judgement is entered in favour of defendants Infosys Technologies Limited Incorporated and Infosys Limited and against plaintiff Jack 'Jay' Palmer, Jr., with plaintiff Palmer taking nothing by his complaint.
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