Blackwater wants $10 million from lawyer for dead workers

[maddezmom]

The Associated Press
RALEIGH - Private security contractor Blackwater USA is seeking $10 million from the attorney representing the estates of four employees killed and mutilated in Iraq.
The contractor argues that the families breached the security guards' contracts by suing the company for wrongful death.

Blackwater has also asked a federal court to move the dispute into arbitration, having failed so far in its efforts to have the lawsuit dismissed.

Arbitration is necessary "in order to safeguard both own confidential information as well as sensitive information implicating the interest of the United States at war," attorneys for Blackwater Security Consulting, a unit of Moyock-based Blackwater USA, wrote in a petition filed December 20.

Dan Callahan, a California-based attorney representing the families, called the claim "appalling."

more:http://www.newsobserver.com/167/story/534665.html

[DU9598]

1. Calling Congressman Waxman

Umm, we need some subpoenas over at this business called Blackwater.

[C_U_L8R]

2. private armies should be outlawed

bloody war profiteers devoid of any morality

[maddezmom]

5. they just got another contract in Sudan

Blackwater to provide training to security forces in southern Sudan
http://www.worldtribune.com/worldtribune/07/front2454125.183333333.html

[ceile]

3. The employees signed the contract NOT the families.

They have every right to sue.

[brentspeak]

4. And all this time, I thought that Republicans hated "ambulance-chasing lawsuits"

And they don't get more Republican than Blackwater.