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Published: June 18, 2012 at 5:13 PM PORTLAND, Ore., June 18 (UPI) — Defense contractor KBR is being sued by Oregon National Guard members who say they were exposed to a carcinogenic chemical in Iraq, attorneys said. The most contentious motion to be argued at hearings this week in U.S. District Court in Portland, Ore., concerns […]
Defense contractor KBR tries to toss expert witness from Oregon Guard trial Published: Wednesday, June 20, 2012, 1:24 PM Updated: Wednesday, June 20, 2012, 1:41 PM By Mike Francis, The Oregonian Follow 0 ShareEmailPrint View full sizeSome soldiers in Oregon Army National Guard are in a lawsuit against defense contractor KBR for their exposure to the […]
New documents recently uncovered show that military contractor KBR was aware of contamination at its Qarmat Ali water treatment plan in Iraq at least as early as January 2003. KBR had previously claimed that it was only aware of chemical contamination at the site from sodium dichromate after U.S. National Guardsmen began showing symptoms of […]
Today the ICANN Uniform Domain Name Dispute Resolution panel rejected KBR’s attempt to silence www.kbrlitigation.com, the public information site maintained for the Qarmat Ali vets and public to stay informed about the KBR Qarmat Ali litigation. Although literally dozens of sites used “KBR” and various combinations, KBR chose to pursue a claim to shut down […]
The United States Department of Defense released a report on September 28, 2011, confirming that KBR failed to act to protect servicemen from exposure to sodium dichromate (hexavalent chromium) while they were guarding KBR’s Qarmat Ali water treatment plant in Iraq. The report faulted the U.S. military as well for a failure to closely monitor […]
An Inspector General report has found that the Defense Department and contractor KBR failed to act quickly to protect servicemembers and civilians after discovering that they had been exposed to a hazardous chemical at a water-treatment plant in Iraq, according to a story in The Oregonian newspaper. Dozens of National Guardsmen from Oregon and Indiana […]
Julie Sullivan, The Oregonian A federal judge who ruled an Oregon lawsuit against the largest war contractor in Iraq should proceed in Portland, agreed that the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit should review his decision. U.S. District Magistrate Paul Papak stood by his earlier rulings, but cleared the way for an unusual […]
Original Article at Huffington Post I have written before on the lawsuit by National Guardsman against KBR regarding the alleged their poisoning by exposure to sodium dichromate at Qarmat Ali project. So here is an update taken from the most recent filings submitted by the plaintiffs’ lawyers in Texas and Oregon. Evidently KBR is being […]
ERIN GOLDEN • The Associated Press Aaron St. Clair was nearly home from Iraq when he got the bad news. The Redmond soldier was at Fort Lewis, Wash., with other Oregon National Guard troops, filling out paperwork and marking the last few days of a long deployment when a lieutenant pulled him aside. Months earlier, he […]
