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1 Feb 2010, 9:59 am by Brian Jackson
[JURIST] The US Department of Justice (DOJ) is investigating whether Blackwater [JURIST news archive], now known as Xe, bribed Iraqi officials to allow them to continue operating in the country following shooting deaths in 2007 [JURIST report], the New York Times reported [text] Monday. [read post]
30 Jan 2010, 6:26 am by jamison
  It wasn’t because she was lead counsel for some high-profile human rights cases:  torture of the Iraqi prisoners at Abu Ghraib, the shooting of innocent Iraqi citizens by Blackwater. [read post]
26 Jan 2010, 8:13 pm by White Collar Crime Prof Blogger
Will Appeal Dismissal of Case Involving Blackwater Guards; Mike Scarcella, BLT Blog, Defense Lawyers in Blackwater Case Dismayed... [read post]
26 Jan 2010, 2:12 pm by charonqc
Social media / Twitter et al… can do the business… I found this tweet  most amusing…  Blackwater is not that popular in Iraq… I suspect that some other Brits not be either Beau Bo D’Or – is always worth looking at for a ‘take on our modern lives…. [read post]
24 Jan 2010, 12:50 pm by CrimProf BlogEditor
Biden Jr. promised Iraqi leaders on Saturday that the United States would appeal the dismissal of manslaughter charges against five Blackwater Worldwide security contractors involved in... [read post]
24 Jan 2010, 7:53 am by Steve Czajkowski
[JURIST] US Vice President Joe Biden [official profile] announced [YouTube video] Saturday that the US will appeal a ruling [opinion, PDF; JURIST report] dismissing voluntary manslaughter and weapons charges against five Blackwater [JURIST news archive] guards who were indicted for their involvement in the deaths of 17 Iraqi civilians [JURIST report] in September 2007. [read post]
22 Jan 2010, 2:00 am by tortsprof
" (CBS News) New Lawsuits Iraqi government contemplating class action suit against private security firm Blackwater for injuries to Iraqi... [read post]
12 Jan 2010, 4:13 pm by Rusty Shackleford
Murder charges against Blackwater employees dismissed due to prosecutors' misconduct Coming at the tail end of 2009, a federal judge dismissed all charges against five employees of the controversial security company Blackwater. [read post]
12 Jan 2010, 8:57 am by Sheldon Toplitt
District Court Judge Ricardo Urbina's Jan. 7 order, transcripts and exhibits from the three-week hearing concerning the prosecution of five former Blackwater Worldwide security guards that Judge Urbina dismissed last month (US v. [read post]
8 Jan 2010, 1:34 pm by rtruman
Iraqis Settle Lawsuits Over Blackwater Shootings [read post]
8 Jan 2010, 7:25 am by Andrew Morgan
[JURIST] US authorities on Thursday announced [press release] charges against two former employees of security firm Blackwater [JURIST news archive] in connection with the May 5 shooting death of two Afghans in Kabul. [read post]
7 Jan 2010, 12:41 pm by Jaclyn Belczyk
[JURIST] US security firm Blackwater [JURIST news archive] on Wednesday reached a settlement agreement in seven federal lawsuits filed by Iraqi citizens. [read post]
7 Jan 2010, 12:18 pm by Jeralyn
The feds have charged two former Blackwater guards with second degree murder and attempted murder in the Eastern District of Virginia. [read post]
5 Jan 2010, 10:37 am by Alain Leibman
More recently, another judge incensed over prosecutorial mishandling of evidence dismissed an indictment against several Blackwater employees charged in an Iraq shooting incident. [read post]
4 Jan 2010, 2:29 pm by White Collar Crime Prof Blogger
Here is an interesting interview that Amy Goodman (Democracy Now) has with Scott Horton concerning the dismissal of the charges related to Blackwater (and the killing of individuals in Baghdad's Nisoor Square in 2007). [read post]
4 Jan 2010, 2:00 pm by Jaclyn Belczyk
[JURIST] Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki [official website, in Arabic] said Monday that Iraq will file lawsuits in both US and Iraqi courts against Blackwater [JURIST news archive] after a US judge dismissed charges last week against five guards indicted for their involvement in the deaths of 17 Iraqi civilians [JURIST reports] in September 2007. [read post]