By PAUL THARP, Staff Writer [email protected]   A lawsuit brought by a group of Iraqi plaintiffs who sued the N.C. company formerly known as Blackwater Security Consulting was ordered to return to Wake County Superior Court after U.S. District Judge Terrence ...

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By PAUL THARP, Staff Writer [email protected] Foreign plaintiffs suing the N.C.-based company formerly known as Blackwater Security Consulting are prepared to return to Wake County Superior Court after a federal judge remanded the case from the U.S. District Court for ...

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Failure to abide by arbitration rules has resulted in the termination of arbitration proceedings in a case involving the estates of four Blackwater contractors killed in Iraq in 2004. Termination of the arbitration proceedings, in turn, may have ended the legal cases brought by the administrator of the estates of the contractors, as well as competing actions brought by Blackwater against the administrator. "Contractual arbitration obligations have meaning and are legally enforceable," said Raleigh attorney Kirk G. Warner (pictured), who represented Blackwater.

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RALEIGH (AP) – The security company formerly known as Blackwater and several of its contractors are seeking the dismissal of a lawsuit filed over a 2007 shooting in Baghdad that killed 17 Iraqis. A federal judge in Raleigh was holding ...

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