US Supreme Court this week reject A petition from medical software maker Epic Systems challenges an appeals court’s decision to reduce the amount awarded to Epic in a lawsuit with Tata Consultancy Services.
The lawsuit dates back to 2014, when Verona, Wisconsin-based Epic initially sued IT firm Tata Consultancy Services, alleging that Mumbai-based Tata stole trade secrets from Epic and produced a competing software, Med Mantra. In 2016, Epic was $940 million initially Compensation, including $240 million in compensatory damages and $700 million in punitive damages.
However, the total amount for 2017 was reduced to $420 millionof which $280 million was in punitive damages and $140 million in compensatory damages, which a Wisconsin judge ruled under a law that punitive damages cannot exceed twice the compensatory damages.
Then the penalty amount is reduce again The appellate court won just $140 million in 2020, bringing the total award to $280 million.
In its 2020 ruling, the three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit said, “[Tata’s] The conduct, while reprehensible, was not shocking, and multiplied by a considerable amount of damages – the basis of the calculation was [Tata’s] Gains rather than Epic’s losses – unnecessary to reflect Epic’s uncertain economic damage. “
Epic fought back in 2021 with a writ of trial, asking the Supreme Court to review its case.
On Monday, the Supreme Court upheld the appeal of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit Decide: Epic will receive a total of $280 million from Tata, a far cry from the $940 million originally awarded in 2016. Tata will pay Epic $140 million in punitive damages and another $140 million in compensatory damages.
Epic Systems Corp v. Tata Consultancy Services Ltd, U.S. Supreme Court, Case No. 20-1426. An Epic spokesman declined to comment on the lawsuit.
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