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"Appeals court revives lawsuit against Halliburton"

"Appeals court revives lawsuit against Halliburton": The Associated Press provides a report that begins, "A federal appeals court on Wednesday revived lawsuits against military contractors over a deadly ambush that killed civilian truck drivers in Iraq. The suits filed by truckers and their families accuse Halliburton and a former subsidiary, KBR Inc., of knowingly sending a convoy into a dangerous area where six KBR drivers were killed and several others wounded on April 9, 2004. A federal judge in Houston threw out the lawsuits in September 2006, saying the judiciary can't second-guess the military's battlefield decisions. But the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in New Orleans reversed that judge's ruling on Wednesday and sent the three cases back to the lower court for further proceedings."

You can access today's ruling of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit at this link.

Full post as published by How Appealing on May 28, 2008 (boomark / email).