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Defense contractor tries again to get Abu Ghraib lawsuit tossed out

2015-02-07 20:39:50| IT Services - Topix.net

A defense contractor that supplied interrogators to the notorious Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq argued Friday that it can't be sued for abuses that occurred there because its employees were working in tandem with military personnel whose judgment about conducting wartime operations shouldn't be questioned by a federal judge. Four former inmates at Abu Ghraib sued a subsidiary of Arlington-based CACI International Inc. back in 2008, saying CACI employees conspired to torture them to soften them up for interrogations.

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Lafayette's fracking ban tossed by judge

2014-08-27 21:05:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Associated Press: Colorado's oil and gas industry has again won another court battle against a town that banned or limited fracking. A Boulder District Court judge on Wednesday tossed out a voter-approved fracking ban in Lafayette voters. The ban was adopted last year. The Colorado Oil & Gas Association challenged the fracking ban. Judge D. D. Mallard also struck down a voter-approved fracking ban on Longmont. She said in both decisions that local governments cannot regulate drilling. Earlier this month,...

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Ecuador: Patton Boggs' latest case vs Chevron over pollution tossed

2014-05-01 11:16:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Reuters: A New York federal judge has dismissed a lawsuit brought by Patton Boggs accusing Chevron Corp of "bad faith" litigation tactics while the Washington law firm tried to enforce a multibillion-dollar pollution judgment. In granting Chevron's motion to dismiss the case, U.S. District Judge Lewis Kaplan on Tuesday agreed with a 2013 recommendation by U.S. Magistrate Judge James Francis that Patton Boggs did not have legal standing to sue. The lawsuit was the most recent of three that Patton Boggs...

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