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In desperation KBR attorneys attempted to “encourage” Army to reconsider

By Ms Sparky | Filed in CONTRACTOR DEATHS, Fisher vs KBR, GOV. CONTRACTORS, LAWSUITS, LOGCAP III - KBR, Rants, RIO-KBR

So...just what kind a person does it take to be a KBR attorney?

On February 23, 2010 the law firm of McKenna Long & Aldridge sent a letter to the Army on behalf of their client KBR. The letter was entitled:

Re: Request for Reconsideration of Denial of Use of LGEN (Ret.) Ricardo S. Sanchez as Expert Witness

Apparently the Army’s recent decision to not allow LGEN (Ret.) Ricardo S. Sanchez to supply expert testimony on KBR’s behalf didn’t sit well.

I first blogged about LGEN Sanchez testimony in March but didn’t have the letter at that time. I have it now and am disturbed at the sheer level of arrogance of KBR’s attorneys.

I am not going reprint the entire three page letter in this post. If you want to read it in it’s entirety click HERE. I am going to highlight what I consider to be the most disturbing and desperate statements in the letter followed by my Ms Sparky (snarky) interpretation. Read the remainder of this entry »

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Tags: Gen. Crear, Judge Gray Miller, Lt. Col. James Gentry, Lt. Gen. Ricardo Sanchez, McKenna Long & Aldridge, Secretary Pete Geren

Wheels of justice turning slowly in deadly KBR convoy case

By Forseti | Filed in Donald Tolfree-KBR, Fisher vs KBR, Good Friday Massacre, KBR, Lawsuits Against KBR, LOGCAP III - KBR

Oops he lost his cap and lanyard

Judge permits convoy ambush trial, but delays it

By TOM FOWLER HOUSTON CHRONICLE – March 25, 2010
A federal judge ruled today that most of the lawsuits claiming Houston-based KBR should have stopped a deadly 2004 truck convoy in Iraq can move toward trial, but a May 24 trial date is off to allow KBR time to file an appeal.

The case centers on April 2004 attacks on a convoy of supply trucks KBR ran in Iraq, during which six civilian truck drivers were killed and 14 wounded.

The drivers caught in the ambush were delivering fuel under KBR’s multibillion-dollar contract to transport supplies, build bases, serve meals and provide other support services for American troops in the Middle East.

Plaintiffs in the Houston lawsuits — two injured workers and the family of one who was killed in the attack — allege that the company knew of the likelihood of the attacks in advance and had the authority to cancel the convoys.

U.S. District Judge Gray Miller previously dismissed the collection of lawsuits, saying the U.S. Army had control over KBR and thus KBR wasn’t responsible.

Read the remainder of this entry »

Tags: Good Friday Massacre, Judge Gray Miller, Kevin Smith-Idol, Kristen Martin, Toby Cole, Tommy Fibich

Judge rules against Army in favor of KBR and the retired General who has sold his soul for $650.00hr

By Ms Sparky | Filed in CONTRACTOR DEATHS, Fisher vs KBR, Good Friday Massacre, KBR, Lawsuits Against KBR, LOGCAP III - KBR, Reports & Investigations

Ex-commander in Iraq to give deposition in KBR case

By MARY FLOOD – March 3, 2010, 11:03PM

Despite the Army’s efforts to block it, retired Army Lt. Gen. Ricardo Sanchez, who once led U.S. forces in Iraq, is scheduled to be deposed today as an expert for KBR in a lawsuit over a deadly civilian truck convoy attack in Iraq.

U.S. Magistrate Judge Nancy Johnson refused Wednesday to grant the Army’s request to prevent Sanchez from giving his expert opinions in the case.

Drivers and family members suing KBR contend the company should have stopped the convoys when it was warned that attacks would increase on April 9, 2004, the first anniversary of the day allies in the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq reached Baghdad.

Sanchez, who at $650 an hour is already owed about $91,000 in expert fees, says KBR is not at fault for the six deaths and other injuries.

Sanchez wrote a report saying it was an Army communication error that led the attacked convoys to go down a road some in the military knew was supposed to be closed to civilian traffic. Read the remainder of this entry »

Tags: Daniel Hu, Fisher vs KBR, Good Friday Massacre, Judge Gray Miller, Judge Nancy Johnson, Lawsuits Against KBR, Lt. Gen. Ricardo Sanchez, Mark Lowes, Retired General's Club, Tommy Fibich

Judge allows trial of suits over KBR convoy deaths

By Forseti | Filed in Bodie Babble, CONTRACTOR DEATHS, Fisher vs KBR, Good Friday Massacre, KBR, LAWSUITS, Lawsuits Against KBR, LOGCAP III - KBR

By Tom Fowler – Houston Chronicle
Feb. 8, 2010

Lawsuits claiming Houston-based KBR should have stopped a 2004 truck convoy in Iraq before six civilian drivers were killed and others injured in an ambush can go to trial, a federal judge ruled today.

U.S. District Judge Gray Miller had previously dismissed the case, agreeing with KBR’s argument that it didn’t have the authority to keep the fuel convoys off the road and that a trial would be an improper challenge to military decision-making. KBR contracts with the military to provide logistical support.

But after an appeals court overturned his decision, Miller allowed the parties to gather more evidence, which turned up e-mails of KBR managers saying they thought they could stop the conveys and had done so in the past. Read the remainder of this entry »

Tags: Bodie Babble, Fisher vs KBR, Good Friday Massacre, Judge Gray Miller, Tommy Hamill, William "Bill" Bodie

Judge considers new emails in Good Friday Massacre case against KBR

By Forseti | Filed in CONTRACTOR DEATHS, DBA-AIG, Fisher vs KBR, Good Friday Massacre, GOV. CONTRACTORS, LAWSUITS, LOGCAP III - KBR

By MARY FLOOD
Dec. 17, 2009, 7:16PM

US supply convoy in Iraq

A Houston judge is in the spotlight as he has to decide who could have stopped a military contractor truck convoy in Iraq before six civilian truck drivers were killed and others injured in a 2004 ambush.

U.S. District Judge Gray Miller has made this call once before. He decided that the U.S. Army had control over KBR. But an appellate court bounced the issue back to him, and the legal landscape may look different after months of pretrial information gathering.

KBR’s lawyers say nothing’s changed and that company employees could not have stopped a convoy when the Army wanted them to go. They say the cases should be tossed out of court again and not go to trial.

But e-mails, including some only recently unsealed, show KBR employees discussed mounting danger for the convoys in the week before a driver was killed April 8, 2004. Their concern rose that night and the next day as convoys were deployed, then attacked, leaving six drivers dead, 14 injured and one still missing.

And the KBR employees talked about stopping the convoys whether the Army did or not. Read the remainder of this entry »

Tags: Fisher vs KBR, Good Friday Massacre, Judge Gray Miller, LAWSUITS, Lawsuits Against KBR

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Archive for the Fisher vs KBR Category

In desperation KBR attorneys attempted to “encourage” Army to reconsider

Wheels of justice turning slowly in deadly KBR convoy case

Judge permits convoy ambush trial, but delays it

Judge rules against Army in favor of KBR and the retired General who has sold his soul for $650.00hr

Ex-commander in Iraq to give deposition in KBR case

Judge allows trial of suits over KBR convoy deaths

Judge considers new emails in Good Friday Massacre case against KBR

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