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NEW ORLEANS — A federal appeals court revived lawsuits Wednesday against military contractors over a deadly ambush that killed civilian truck drivers in Iraq.
The suits filed by truckers and their families accuse Halliburton and a former subsidiary, KBR Inc., of knowingly sending a convoy into a dangerous area where six KBR drivers were killed and several others wounded on April 9, 2004.
A federal judge in Houston threw out the lawsuits in September 2006, saying the judiciary can’t second-guess the military’s battlefield decisions.
The 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in New Orleans reversed that ruling Wednesday and sent the case back to the lower court for further proceedings. The Associated Press
