San Francisco, CA, May 23, 2023 – Plaintiff-Appellant Purushothaman Rajaram completed briefing today in a Ninth Circuit appeal on the issue of whether 42 U.S.C. § 1981 covers citizenship discrimination claims against U.S. citizens. Rajaram sued Meta (Facebook) for citizenship discrimination, alleging that Meta prefers to hire foreign visa workers rather than U.S. citizens for…
New Haven, CT, March 21, 2023 – Kotchen & Low LLP has been retained by the Law Offices of Nitor Egbarin and Plaintiffs Donrudy Loiseau, Quinton Hebron, and Dwayne Small to represent Plaintiffs in a pending class action lawsuit filed against Bozzuto’s Inc. and three of its employees: James Jones, Chuck Cerreta, and Joel Santiago….
Trenton, NJ, December 7, 2022 – Plaintiff Shawn Katz filed a class action discrimination lawsuit against Tata Consultancy Services, Ltd. (“TCS”), an Indian information technology consulting and outsourcing company. Katz alleges that TCS prefers individuals of South Asian race and Indian national origin in its employment practices in violation of 42 U.S.C. § 1981 and…
New York, NY, November 29, 2022 – Plaintiffs/Relators-Appellants have appealed the U.S. District Court for the District of Connecticut’s Order granting HCL Technologies Ltd. and HCL America, Inc.’s (“HCL’s”) Motion to Dismiss Relators’ reverse-False Claims Act (“FCA”) claims. Relators allege that HCL engages in pervasive and widespread visa fraud in applying for and securing visas…
Trenton, NJ, August 17, 2021 – United States District Judge Peter G. Sheridan granted in part, and denied in part, a Motion to Dismiss filed by Defendants Cognizant Technology Solutions Corporation and Cognizant Technologies U.S. Corporation (“Cognizant”) in a False Claims Act lawsuit for visa fraud. Relator Jean-Claude Franchitti filed his lawsuit under seal on…
Dec. 23, 2020, Washington, DC – The President signed into law today the Criminal Antitrust Anti-Retaliation Act, which protects whistleblowers from retaliation for reporting criminal antitrust violations. Kotchen & Low LLP proposed the law in 2008, inspired by one of our clients, Martin McNulty, who was fired for reporting a market allocation scheme. When we…
Sept. 26, 2019, Washington, DC – Kotchen & Low LLP is investigating potential overcharges of Air Passenger Duty on flights from the U.K. for children under 16. Although the duty expired March 1, 2016, some people have been charged since then. If you live in the United States, purchased a flight from the U.K. after…
Oakland, CA, Aug. 15, 2019 — Judge Freeman approved today the settlement of a collective action age discrimination lawsuit brought by Kotchen & Low LLP on behalf of 227 plaintiffs who asserted that Google discriminated against them when it rejected their applications for Site Reliability Engineer, Software Engineer, or Systems Engineer positions at Google in…
San Jose, CA, August 15, 2018 – Kotchen & Low LLP filed a complaint today on behalf of a proposed class of employees and applicants alleging that HCL discriminates against non-South Asians in hiring, promotions, and terminations. Plaintiffs allege that HCL discriminates against non-South Asians in four ways. First, HCL uses fraudulent H-1B visa applications…
Oakland, CA, August 1, 2018 — Judge Freeman issued an order today denying Google’s motion for decertification of the conditionally certified collective action in Heath & Fillekes v. Google LLC, No. 15-cv-01824 (N.D. Cal.). Plaintiffs, represented by Kotchen & Low LLP, allege age discrimination by Google in hiring in violation of the ADEA. Update: The…
