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21 Dec 2007, 1:21 pm
by Deepak Gupta We've posted recently about the horrifying story of Jamie Leigh Jones, a 20-year old Haliburton/KBR employee who was gang-raped by her co-workers in Iraq and is now being denied her constitutional right to seek justice in court because of a mandatory binding arbitration clause in her employment contract. [read post]
21 Dec 2007, 9:47 am
No Justice for Jamie Jones, by Stephanie Mencimer, TortDeform Contributor and journalist for Mother Jones. [read post]
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]
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]
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]
19 Dec 2007, 1:07 pm
You MUST listen to these video clips from the hearing: Testimony of Jamie Leigh Jones: "There has been no prosecution after two and a half years.The arbitration laws are so abusive that Halliburton is trying to force this into a secret proceeding, which will do nothing to prevent continued abuse of this nature. [read post]
19 Dec 2007, 10:08 am
Two and a half years after being drugged and gang raped by co-workers while on contract in Iraq, American civilian Jamie Leigh Jones has in essence been told, time and again, that if she's looking for justice for the crimes perpetrated against her, she need neither look to her employer, the Justice Department, nor our court system. [read post]
19 Dec 2007, 10:08 am
Two and a half years after being drugged and gang raped by co-workers while on contract in Iraq, American civilian Jamie Leigh Jones has in essence been told, time and again, that if she's looking for justice for the crimes perpetrated against her, she need neither look to her employer, the Justice Department, nor our court system. [read post]
19 Dec 2007, 7:42 am
I testified today at the Judiciary Committee's hearings on the KBR rape case. [read post]
18 Dec 2007, 1:39 pm
Employers' mandatory arbitration agreements are coming under close scrutiny in the aftermath of a high profile case involving defense contractor KBR's (a Halliburton subsidiary) attempt to compel Jamie Leigh Jones to arbitrate claims of rape and harassment against the company.... [read post]
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]
12 Dec 2007, 5:51 am
In February 2006, Jamie Leigh Jones filed an arbitration complaint, complaining that, for her administrative assistant job with KBR in the Iraq Green Zone, she was placed in an all-male dorm for living arrangements, and a co-worker sexually assaulted her. [read post]
11 Dec 2007, 6:56 pm
Via USPIRG's Consumer Blog, ABC's got the story of a civil suit by Jamie Leigh Jones against Halliburton for sexual harassment and an alleged gang rape, and its likely destination: arbitration. [read post]
10 Dec 2007, 5:13 pm
"Since the attacks, Jones has started a nonprofit foundation called the Jamie Leigh Foundation, which is dedicated to helping victims who were raped or sexually assaulted overseas while working for government contractors or other corporations. [read post]
13 Dec 2006, 7:17 pm
Dever, Jamie Devlin, David L. [read post]
