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17 Dec 2007, 11:00 am
The piece discusses the case of Jamie Leigh Jones, who alleges she was raped by fellow employees at Kellogg Brown & Root, while working for the company in Iraq. [read post]
16 Dec 2007, 8:40 pm
The piece discusses the case of Jamie Leigh Jones, who alleges she was raped by fellow employees at Kellogg Brown & Root, while working for the company in Iraq. [read post]
29 Jul 2011, 5:47 am by Walter Olson
Don’t: “Lawyer Disbarred for Verbal Aggression to Pay $9.8M Fine for Hiding Cash Overseas” [Weiss, ABA Journal] Loser-pays might help: “Dropped malpractice lawsuits cost legal system time and money” [Liz Kowalczyk, Boston Globe] “Kim Kardashian and the Problem With ‘Celebrity Likeness’ Lawsuits” [Atlantic Wire] Kim Strassel on the Franken-spun Jamie Leigh Jones case [WSJ] Peggy Little interviews Prof. [read post]
19 Dec 2007, 5:27 pm
"Among the witnesses who testified today was Jamie Leigh Jones, who appeared on "20/20" last week.Jones, now 23, says that after she'd been raped by multiple assailants in her room at a KBR camp in the Green Zone, she was warned by company officials that if she left Iraq for medical treatment, she'd be out of a job.To date there has been no prosecution of the men who Jones says gang-raped her.- Of course not, they are part of the… [read post]
18 Sep 2009, 3:05 pm
Sept. 15, 2009), in 2004, at the age of 19, Jamie Leigh Jones began working as an administrative assistant for Halliburton Company/Kellogg Brown & Root (Halliburton/KBR) in Houston, Texas. [read post]
30 Sep 2009, 5:24 am
" The witness list includes:Jamie Leigh Jones of the Jamie Leigh Foundation, an organization dedicated to victims of crime working overseas for government contractors and subs;Prof. [read post]
11 Feb 2010, 6:10 pm
As BLT reports:Under Section 8116 of the bill, no money can go to a defense contractor unless the contractor agrees not to enter into or enforce any employment contract “that requires, as a condition of employment, that the employee or independent contractor agree to resolve through arbitration any claim under title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964,” or many tort claims.The spending bill includes exemptions for small contracts and a "national security" waiver.The BLT piece mentions… [read post]
11 Feb 2010, 6:10 pm
As BLT reports:Under Section 8116 of the bill, no money can go to a defense contractor unless the contractor agrees not to enter into or enforce any employment contract “that requires, as a condition of employment, that the employee or independent contractor agree to resolve through arbitration any claim under title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964,” or many tort claims.The spending bill includes exemptions for small contracts and a "national security" waiver.The BLT piece… [read post]
12 Nov 2008, 7:03 pm
Jamie Leigh Jones was raped, drugged, beaten, and then confined to a shipping container by KBR/Halliburton employees while working in Iraq. [read post]
17 Aug 2008, 11:56 am
Just ask Jamie Jones.Jamie Leigh Jones was 19 and working for Halliburton/KBR in Houston when she volunteered to go to Iraq. [read post]
6 Oct 2011, 6:21 am by Walter Olson
Unless you’d read one of the very few skeptical evaluations of the case — many of them written by Ted Frank — you may have been shocked this July when a Houston jury summarily rejected Jamie Leigh Jones’s lawsuit. [read post]
24 Jul 2011, 5:08 pm by fl_litig8r
Despite the questionable credibility of Jamie Leigh Jones, the point that Hot Coffee makes about arbitration clauses is no less valid in light of her having lost her civil suit. [read post]
22 Jun 2011, 6:22 am by Joe Consumer
Meanwhile, keep the good thoughts going out to one of the film's important characters, Jamie Leigh Jones, the gang-rape victim who now must suffer through cruel cross-examination by KBR/Haliburton's lawyers. [read post]
22 Jun 2011, 6:22 am by Joe Consumer
Meanwhile, keep the good thoughts going out to one of the film's important characters, Jamie Leigh Jones, the gang-rape victim who now must suffer through cruel cross-examination by KBR/Haliburton's lawyers. [read post]
4 Jan 2008, 2:00 am
Another recent disturbing example, the case of Jamie Leigh Jones (pictured below left; photo credit), a 20-year-old Halliburton employee in Iraq who states that she was drugged and brutally gang-raped by several co-workers, shows us what happens to rapists and victims in the legal black hole populated by U.S. federal contractors in Iraq (described here by Laura Dickinson). [read post]
28 Oct 2010, 12:22 pm by Joe Consumer
There's also the Jamie Leigh Jones gang rape case involving the company, which we've covered many times.) [read post]
26 Jun 2011, 10:25 am by brettb
For instance, the film takes a look at the case of Jamie Leigh Jones (pictured with her attorney above), who claimed that she was raped while working for KBR in Iraq. [read post]
28 Jun 2011, 1:53 pm
Former KBR/Halliburton employee Jamie Leigh Jones waited six years to get before a jury after being drugged, raped, and placed in a shipping container while working in Iraq. [read post]