[CPEO-MEF] VETERANS, GLOBAL: "Military contractor KBR files brief with Supreme Court in attempt to nix burn pit review"

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Military contractor KBR files brief with Supreme Court in attempt to nix burn pit review

By Perry Chiaramonte 
Fox News
December 21, 2018

Military contractor Kellogg, Brown, and Root has filed a brief with the U.S. Supreme Court, asking it to throw out multiple lawsuits filed by veterans who say they were made sick by burn pits the company used for waste disposal on bases in Iraq and Afghanistan.

In a brief filed last week, officials for KBR and its former parent company Halliburton urged the court not to restore dozens of the lawsuits filed against the companies, who handled daily operations for many of the bases starting in 2001. They claim that the lawsuits were already dismissed properly because the courts have no jurisdiction over military strategy.

“The separation-of-powers principles underlying the political question doctrine preclude courts from second-guessing professional military judgments that are within the exclusive province of the political branches,” reads a line from the filing obtained by Fox News.

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For the entire article, see
https://www.foxnews.com/us/military-contractor-kbr-files-motion-with-supreme-court-in-attempt-to-nix-burn-pit-review

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director
Center for Public Environmental Oversight
a project of the Pacific Studies Center
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