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9 Jul 2011, 11:43 am by Victoria VanBuren
The jury found that: Charles Botz did not rape Jamie Leigh Jones on or around July 27, 2005 ; and KBR did not commit fraud against Jamie Leigh Jones by inducing her to enter into the employment contract. [read post]
24 Mar 2010, 9:04 am by laborprof lpb
We reported in early February that KBR/Halliburton had filed a cert petition in the Jones case, which, you may recall, involved allegations by employee Jamie Leigh Jones that she was drugged and raped by several of her coworkers in her... [read post]
8 Feb 2008, 2:33 pm
Jamie Leigh Jones is not the only one. [read post]
13 Feb 2008, 5:11 am
Earlier: Jamie Leigh Jones (Dec. 12-16), Jamie Leigh Jones (Dec. 20), Jamie Leigh Jones (Dec. 21); see also Overlawyered's arbitration section. [read post]
12 May 2008, 7:50 am
Those of you who, unlike me, were not under a rock this weekend already know the wonderful news: A federal judge has decided that Jamie Leigh Jones' assault-related claims against KBR cannot be arbitrated, despite her former employer's insistence that any and all claims against it stay out of the public court system. [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]
7 Oct 2009, 3:29 pm
Supporters of the Act have often pointed to the unbelievably grim story of Jamie Leigh Jones, an... [read post]
14 Jan 2008, 12:05 pm
She writes: “I am asking the Department of Defense and the State Department about their efforts to address crimes against government contracted employees, like in the case against former KBR employee Jamie Leigh Jones. [read post]
12 May 2008, 9:41 am
Jamie Leigh Jones's tort suit against KBR (and its former parent Halliburton) will, after the pure workplace claims are resolved, go to litigation. [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]
23 Aug 2011, 5:45 am by Nathan Koppel
The skirmishing has not yet subsided in the high-profile suit brought by Jamie Leigh Jones, the Houston woman who claimed that she was raped while working in Iraq for defense contractor KBR. [read post]
28 Sep 2011, 11:58 am by Dionne Searcey
Associated Press Jamie Leigh Jones claims she was raped in 2005 by a coworker while working for KBR A Houston federal judge has handed ex-KBR employee Jamie Leigh Jones yet another defeat in her rape case. [read post]
20 Jul 2011, 7:00 am
The term is a mouthful but "Hot Coffee" powerfully explains this kind of arbitration through the story of Jamie Leigh Jones. [read post]
31 Mar 2010, 6:50 am by Tom Crane
 Halliburton/KBR has dropped its petition for certiorari to the US Supreme Court in the Jamie Leigh Jones case. [read post]
28 Apr 2009, 8:06 am
The Fifth Circuit heard arguments yesterday on Halliburton’s appeal of Jamie Leigh Jones v. [read post]
22 Jul 2011, 5:14 am by Ted Frank
Must-read piece by Kimberly Strassel (W$J; free Google News link) on how Senator Al Franken, the litigation lobby, and the media hammered the bogus Jamie Leigh Jones story into an unfair attack on arbitration and its defenders, though existing arbitration law did nothing to preclude Jones's day in court. [read post]
25 Aug 2011, 2:30 pm by Tom D'Amore
  No matter what you think of Jamie Leigh Jones case (learn more here), forcing people into binding arbitration contracts denies their constitutional right to trial by jury, as guaranteed in the 7th Amendment. [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]
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, 7:42 am
I testified today at the Judiciary Committee's hearings on the KBR rape case. [read post]