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9 Jul 2011, 4:30 am by Nick Farr
The jury also rejected Jamie Leigh Jones’ claims that the former Halliburton subsidiary committed fraud by “inducing her to enter into an employment contract. [read post]
21 Oct 2013, 9:15 pm by Walter Olson
Tweet Tags: arbitration, hot coffee, Stella LiebeckStephanie Mencimer on “Hot Coffee” and the Jamie Leigh Jones case is a post from Overlawyered - Chronicling the high cost of our legal system [read post]
4 Oct 2011, 5:38 am by Ted Frank
I was alone in complaining about the one-sided media coverage of the Jamie Leigh Jones litigation, but yesterday, a few years later, the Houston Chronicle comes around to criticizing the media coverage as a sidebar to a longer post-mortem on the case. [read post]
30 Sep 2011, 3:16 pm by lpbncontracts
We've blogged about the Jamie Leigh Jones case before (here, here and here, and probably other places as well). [read post]
7 Jul 2011, 3:17 pm by Daniel Gilbert
Associated Press Jamie Leigh Jones claims she was raped in 2005 by a coworker while working for KBR, a former Halliburton unit. [read post]
17 Jun 2011, 1:15 pm by Daniel Gilbert
Associated Press Jamie Leigh Jones claims she was raped in 2005 by a coworker while working for KBR, a former Halliburton unit. [read post]
7 Jul 2011, 9:57 am by Ted Frank
Hopefully it will be an outcome that's good for us and the movie and especially for Jamie Leigh. [read post]
11 Jul 2011, 7:51 am by piperhoffman
Jamie Leigh Jones, the Halliburton employee who accused seven of her co-workers of brutally raping her, lost her case when a jury ruled [...] [read post]
20 Dec 2007, 4:42 am
As I suspected, the Jamie Leigh Jones testimony on the Hill quickly devolved away from the Department of Justice's alleged failures in investigating a rape (the ostensible reason for the hearing) to the completely unrelated issue of her arbitration agreement with KBR and her attempt to conflate KBR with Halliburton, something welcomed by the litigation-lobby blogs that did the same thing. [read post]
21 Dec 2007, 1:47 pm
Stephanie Mencimer jumps on the Jamie Leigh Jones bandwagon against arbitration (Dec. 12, Dec. 20) and carefully makes a misleading case:Employment lawyer Cathy Ventrell-Monsees testified before Congress in October that AAA data show that between January 2003 and March 31, 2007, of the 39 Halliburton cases that went all the way to a decision, Halliburton won 32, a win rate of 82 percent. [read post]
24 Aug 2011, 6:51 am by Ted Frank
Jamie Leigh Jones's lawsuit against KBR with its trumped-up sensational allegations cost the company $2 million in attorneys' fees (and almost certainly more in adverse publicity), so the request is not entirely unreasonable if indeed Jones received money for a movie deal based on her lawsuit: it would be inequitable for Jones to profit from a meritless lawsuit, given that Title VII permits prevailing parties to collect fees. [read post]
29 Jan 2010, 7:14 pm
"Open the Shut Case: Why is KBR so afraid of letting Jamie Leigh Jones have her day in court? [read post]
14 Jun 2011, 8:52 am by Joe Consumer
Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has," I'm sure even she couldn't have envisioned a young woman named Jamie Leigh Jones. [read post]
14 Jun 2011, 8:52 am by Joe Consumer
Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has," I'm sure even she couldn't have envisioned a young woman named Jamie Leigh Jones. [read post]
8 Jul 2011, 3:07 pm by laborprof lpb
We've talked before several times about the sexual harassment case of Jamie Leigh Jones against KBR, the federal contractor, in the context of arbitration--KBR tried to enforce an arbitration clause in its employment contract unsuccessfully. [read post]
1 Feb 2010, 3:10 pm by laborprof lpb
As we have blogged about before, you may recall that Jamie Leigh Jones has alleged that she was drugged and raped by several of her coworkers in 2005 while employed in Iraq by KBR/Halliburton, and after reporting what had happened,... [read post]