Oregon Judge Opinion Rejects KBR Immunity Motions
Oregon Judge Opinion Rejects KBR Immunity Motions
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Oregon Live – KBR files pre-emptory appeal in Guards’ lawsuit
Julie Sullivan, The Oregonian KBR wants to jump hexavalent chromium case to the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals War contractor Kellogg, Brown and Root is taking the unusual step of appealing an Oregon Army National Guard veterans’ lawsuit –before the case has gone to trial. On Friday, KBR attorneys asked the U.S. District Court in […]
A second setback for KBR: Motion to Dismiss Burn Pit cases rejected
By Amanda Halter / Doyle Raizner LLP Military personnel injured by the poisonous fumes emanating from burn pits in Iraq and Afghanistan had a victory yesterday when United States District Judge Roger Titus rejected KBR’s Motion to Dismiss their lawsuits. As they have repeatedly in other lawsuits, sometimes successfully and sometimes not, KBR argued that […]
Fighting alongside American soldiers for the truth about KBR’s Qarmat Ali project
Halliburton’s KBR subsidiary, and it’s role in the exposure of hundreds of American and British soldiers protecting KBR’s Qarmat Ali project in southern Iraq in 2003 to sodium dichromate (better known as hexavalent chromium in the “Erin Brockavich” movie), has been the subject of Senate DPC hearings and coverage on ABC, CBS, NBC, Democracy Now, and in The Houston Chronicle, The Oregonian, and other newspapers across the country.
West Virginia Suit Against KBR for Hexovalent Chromiunm and Sodium Dichromate Exposure in Iraq
KBR, a private company, and its operating subsidiaries (including Cayman Island subsidiaries set up by KBR for various purposes described further below) received billions of dollars of no-bid contracts for work in Iraq in 2003. This suit arises from one of the projects KBR was charged with safely completing, a project involving the restoration of the Qarmat Ali water plant in southern Iraq so the facility could resume pumping water down into the Iraqi oil wells for more consistent oil flow.
