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Blackwater: "We're not suing families"
Contrary to a recent press release by California plaintiff lawyers Dan Callahan and Marc Miles, Blackwater USA is not "suing the families" of four Blackwater USA contractors murdered by insurgents in Fallujah, Iraq, on March 31, 2004.
Thursday, June 21, 2007
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Suit against Blackwater over contractor deaths moves to arbitration
This week, on orders of a federal judge, the dispute is scheduled to be taken up out of court by a three-man panel of arbitrators. By steering the case into arbitration, Blackwater has shifted a legal showdown over issues of battlefield accountability and presidential authority into a non judicial arena where the proceedings occur behind closed doors and the outcome is confidential.
Monday, May 21, 2007
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Security company sued over deaths of contractors in Iraq
Don Feeney is a legendary special forces operative known for putting together crack teams of security contractors for difficult and dangerous assignments. But the families of two men who were killed when their security detail was struck by a massive car bomb in Baghdad believe Feeney also took unnecessary risks in order to hold on to multimillion dollar security contracts in Iraq.
Sunday, May 6, 2007
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War contractors settle in Manatee
When they bought homes in quiet Lakewood Ranch, Scott Custer and Mike Battles were becoming the poster children for wasted government money in war-torn Iraq.
Sunday, April 1, 2007
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Judge Throws out False Claims Act Lawsuit Against Custer Battles
A federal judge in Virginia has dismissed a False Claims Act lawsuit against Iraq contractor Custer Battles. Federal court judge T.S. Ellis ruled in favor of Scott Custer, Mike Battles and their company – Custer Battles – and dismissed allegations that the company committed fraud in connection with its contract with the Coalition Provisional Authority (CPA) to provide security support services at the Baghdad International Airport.
Thursday, February 8, 2007
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Employee sues Halliburton over rape in Iraq
A Florida woman who says she was raped by a colleague while working for Halliburton Co. in Iraq has sued the mega-government contractor claiming the firm did not do enough to protect female employees from such attacks.
Sunday, January 28, 2007
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Blackwater seeks $10M from plaintiffs in wrongful-death suit
Private security contractor Blackwater USA is seeking $10 million from the attorney representing the estates of four employees killed and mutilated in Iraq, arguing their families breached the security guards' contracts by suing the company for wrongful death.
Saturday, January 20, 2007
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From Whitewater to Blackwater
Blackwater USA has a new lawyer working to defend it against a wrongful death lawsuit brought by the families of four of its contractors killed in Iraq. The new "counsel of record" is Kenneth Starr--the independent counsel in the 1999 impeachment of President Bill Clinton over the Monica Lewinsky sex scandal.
Friday, October 27, 2006
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Judge dismisses lawsuit against Halliburton
A federal judge in Houston on Friday threw out a lawsuit filed by former Halliburton Co. truck drivers and family members in the wake of a bloody ambush by Iraqi insurgents known as the Good Friday Massacre.
Saturday, September 23, 2006
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Suit says Halliburton defrauded taxpayers
Halliburton executives ordered a big-screen television and 10 large tubs of tacos, chicken wings and cheese sticks delivered to Iraq for last year's Super Bowl, then billed U.S. taxpayers for their party, according to a lawsuit unsealed Friday.
Saturday, September 9, 2006
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Updated: Blackwater loses bid to move suit to federal court
Blackwater Security Consulting took a hit in court Thursday, losing its bid to have a landmark lawsuit moved from a North Carolina state court to federal court. If Blackwater loses the lawsuit, other companies like it could find themselves the target of similar legal action for their own casualties.
Saturday, August 26, 2006
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Slain Contractors' Families Sue Syria
Survivors of two civilian contractors taken hostage and beheaded in Iraq filed a federal lawsuit Friday against Syria, which they claim supported the group who murdered him.
Saturday, August 26, 2006
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$10M Verdict Overturned in Contractor Fraud Case
A federal judge has overturned on a technicality a $10 million jury verdict against a military contractor accused of defrauding the U.S. government in the first months of the Iraq war. The award, levied in March against Fairfax-based Custer Battles LLC, had been the first civil fraud verdict arising from the Iraq war.
Saturday, August 19, 2006
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Private Security Guard Sues after Reporting Claims of 'Unprofessional Conduct'
A Westminster man ousted from his $300,000-a-year job as a bodyguard in Baghdad has brought a wrongful termination suit against a U.S. contractor providing top-tier security services for Iraq's reconstruction. The lawsuit alleges a bungled cover-up, in which MVM guards fabricated a horrific shootout with roadside snipers and later bragged about killing three enemy soldiers.
Friday, December 16, 2005
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