Tata Consultancy Services Ltd. scored dismissal of a whistleblower’s suit alleging that the India-based IT services company fraudulently obtained visas for foreign workers, a Texas federal district court said.
Whistleblower Jack “Jay” Palmer failed to show that Tata violated the False Claims Act because he didn’t sufficiently allege that the company submitted a claim for payment to the government, Judge Amos L. Mazzant III of the US District Court for the Eastern District of Texas said in a Tuesday opinion.
A visa application doesn’t constitute a claim for money or property, the court said.
Palmer alleged that Tata violated the ...
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