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28 Sep 2011, 1:05 pm by Mike Scarcella
” The three new lawyers on the Blackwater case each work in the National Security Section of the U.S. [read post]
31 Dec 2009, 1:45 pm by Solomon Wisenberg
Judge Ricardo Urbina today dismissed all charges against the five Blackwater defendants with prejudice. [read post]
28 Jun 2011, 8:26 am by Zach Zagger
[JURIST] A former contractor for Blackwater [JURIST news archive], now known as Xe Services [corporate website], was sentenced [press release] Monday to two-and-a-half years in prison for the 2009 shooting of an unarmed Afghan civilian in Kabul. [read post]
27 Sep 2010, 5:45 am
[JURIST] A judge for the US District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia [official website] declared a mistrial Monday in a murder case against two Blackwater [JURIST news archive] defense contractors after the jury failed to reach a verdict. [read post]
9 Jan 2012, 10:04 am by Jamie Reese
[JURIST] Blackwater [JURIST news archive], now known as Academi [corporate website], reached a confidential settlement agreement Saturday with survivors and families of victims in a 2007 shooting incident [JURIST report] in the Nisour Square area of Baghdad that left 17 Iraqi civilians dead. [read post]
11 Oct 2007, 7:59 am
[JURIST] The New York-based Center for Constitutional Rights [official website] filed a lawsuit against private security contractor Blackwater USA [corporate website] Thursday on behalf of an injured survivor and the families of 3 men killed during a September 16 shooting incident in Baghdad [JURIST report] that took the lives of 17 Iraqi civilians. [read post]
23 Oct 2014, 2:17 pm by Bradley McAllister
[JURIST] A federal jury in the US District Court for the District of Columbia [official website] returned a guilty verdict on Wednesday for four ex-Blackwater security guards, now Academi [official website], who shot and killed 14 Iraqis and wounded 17 in a 2007 shooting in Baghdad. [read post]
6 Jun 2011, 1:10 pm by Mike Scarcella
Lawyers for four former Blackwater security guards are challenging an appeals court ruling that revived the government's manslaughter prosecution in Washington federal district court. [read post]
6 Oct 2007, 3:08 am
[JURIST] US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice [official profile] Friday responded to growing concerns over the conduct of Blackwater security escorts working for the State Department in Iraq by directing [press release] that all Blackwater USA [corporate website; JURIST news archive] vehicles be fitted with security cameras and that all convoys have at least one federal agent present while [read post]
30 Oct 2007, 3:51 pm
Blackwater is, in fact, responsible for guarding American diplomats. [read post]
29 Oct 2007, 10:15 pm
David Johnston of the New York Times is reporting here that immunity deals were offered to certain Blackwater employees. [read post]
4 Oct 2007, 10:10 am
Recent revelations that private military contractors employed by Blackwater may have committed atrocities and other abuses in Iraq have led many to call for an end to the use of private... [read post]
12 Oct 2007, 5:39 am
Search (over on the right-hand column) for "Blackwater" for more about past suits against the company. [read post]
9 Oct 2007, 11:58 am
Cynthia Tucker penetratingly nails the Blackwater catastrophe. [read post]
15 Jul 2011, 6:11 am by Ed Wallis
As a Memphis, Tennessee qui tam and whistleblower attorney, I wanted to make you aware of a qui tam and whistleblower suit involving the former Blackwater security contracting firm. [read post]
8 Dec 2008, 9:41 pm
A sixth Blackwater security guard pleaded guilty last week to charges of voluntary manslaughter and attempt to commit manslaughter. [read post]
27 Jan 2008, 11:54 pm
Late last week, Blackwater Security filed a legal malpractice (http://www.law.com/jsp/article.jsp? [read post]
3 Dec 2007, 12:16 pm
Interesting article in today's Wall Street Journal: Blackwater Assailed on Tax Policy; Firm Calls Iraq Guards Independent Contractors; Waxman Seeks Review, by August Cole: Blackwater Worldwide is fending off a new line of attack from critics in Congress -- this... [read post]