Civil Rights
Dec. 3, 2024
Cognizant says jury didn't have enough data to find biased hiring
The company's attorneys, who asked the judge to reverse the jury's October verdict, filed a brief Friday replying to the plaintiffs' opposition to a motion for judgement according to law.
Jurors were not given enough evidence to reasonably find that Cognizant - an information technology company founded in India - deliberately discriminated against non-Indian job applicants in the U.S., the company's counsel argued in post-trial court filings.
The company's attorneys, who asked the judge to reverse the jury's October verdict, filed a brief Friday replying to the plaintiffs' opposition.
Following a mistrial in the federal case last year, a j...
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