Contractors allege they were sent knowingly into battle zone Gary Miller, U.S. district judge. Three cases alleging that KBR knowingly sent civilian contractors into an active battle zone where some were killed and others injured appear on course for a trial as early as March 2010, U.S. District Judge Gray Miller told lawyers in the case Wednesday. Miller originally threw out the suits, ruling that courts lack the authority to second-guess wartime military decisions. The 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals disagreed earlier this year, saying it may be possible to hear the cases without making a "constitutionally impermissible review of wartime decision-making." The cases center on events on April 9, 2004, when Iraqi insurgents attacked a KBR convoy of military supply trucks, killing six civilian truck drivers and wounding 14....
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