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20 Dec 2007, 5:26 am
by Angela Canterbury (advocacy director for Public Citizen's Congress Watch) posted yesterday on The Hill's Congress Blog Today, Jamie Leigh Jones will appear before the House Judiciary Committee and tell how she was gang raped by her co-workers in Iraq while working for a Halliburton subsidiary called KBR. [read post]
9 Oct 2012, 4:00 pm by Curt Cutting
  The plaintiffs are Oregon National Guard soldiers who accuse defense contractor KBR, Inc. of knowingly exposing them to hexavelent chromium (which you may remember from such films as Erin Brockovich). [read post]
16 Feb 2018, 10:07 am by Jon Gelman
”Additionally, a case filed by hundreds of individuals against a private Government contractor, KBR (Kellogg Brown & Root), that had been dismissed, is now on appeal before the US Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals. [read post]
11 Apr 2011, 2:18 pm
Sylvia Walters, 50 years old of Taylorsville, Kentucky was found under a sheet of granite by a customer at her place of employment and pronounced dead. [read post]
30 Jun 2014, 9:10 am by Mary Jane Wilmoth
 The complaint, based on information provided to the government by former KBR employee Harry Barko, exposed how KBR forced its employees to sign illegal gag orders when they were disclosing fraud in government contracting to company officials. [read post]
2 Jan 2012, 2:35 am by Victoria VanBuren
Halliburton/KBR | Halliburton/KBR Sues Jones to Recover Attorneys’ Fees and Costs (Aug. 22) Federal Circuit Unveils Model Order on E-Discovery in Patent Cases (Oct. 3) KPMG LLP v Cocchi | U.S. [read post]
20 Dec 2016, 6:57 am by Doug Cornelius
This is the third pretaliation case from the  SEC, following up on KBR and BlueLinx. [read post]
24 Mar 2010, 1:42 am
"   Supreme Court Rules Against Student Loan Industry "Rejecting the views of 33 states, the federal government, and the student loan industry, the Supreme Court today unanimously ruled in favor of a loan delinquent who used the bankruptcy laws to restructure his debt"   KBR Ends Supreme Court Appeal in Rape Case "The high-profile case of Jamie Leigh Jones, a Halliburton/KBR employee who claims she was raped by co-workers in a barracks in Iraq… [read post]
28 Dec 2015, 9:37 am by Mary Jane Wilmoth
Here are the top 10 posts of 2015, in order of popularity: Big Win For Whistleblowers At Labor Department; House Passes Bill to Expand Protections for Federal Employees Against Discrimination; Appeals Court Rules That KBR Can Keep Evidence Of Contract Fraud Secret; House Investigation Reveals Commerce IG’s Pattern of Retaliation Against Whistleblowers; Senators Honor Whistleblowers at First Congressional Celebration of National Whistleblower Day; Court of Appeals Rules NSA Domestic… [read post]
11 Sep 2011, 10:42 am by admin
Many of the vets who provided security to KBR contractors at Qarmat Ali are sick. [read post]
17 Feb 2015, 5:19 am by Stephen Kohn
Fact Number 14: The Chamber urged the court in KBR to find that KBR’s practice of not providing explicit warnings to employees was acceptable under federal law. [read post]
5 Mar 2009, 1:00 pm
The Hallibuton/KBR settlement followed up with enormous numbers, just not quite as big as Siemens. [read post]
21 Dec 2009, 11:19 am by Andy Hoffman
But that's exactly what happens when someone signs up to work for companies like KBR. [read post]
In KBR, it was held that a notice under s 2(3) of the Criminal Justice Act 1987 (CJA) has extraterritorial effect where there is a “sufficient connection” between the overseas company and the UK (see here for our blog on that case). [read post]
8 Jul 2011, 10:47 am by Jon Sham
Unsealed suit: KBR truck drivers padded timesheets – by Barbara Grzincic Four years after he filed it, a former convoy commander’s False Claims Act complaint against KBR Inc. and its parent company, Halliburton Inc., has been unsealed in U.S. [read post]
7 Feb 2012, 1:01 pm by Kenneth B. Weckstein
 The families of the contractor employees sued Halliburton, Kellogg Brown and Root (“KBR”), and others, for negligence and fraud. [read post]
30 Dec 2009, 5:51 am by Jon L. Gelman
KBR has been  charged with exposing the National Guard troops to hexavalent chromium in Iraq and concealing the hazards of the exposure. [read post]