High Court Refuses Guard Slayings Case

[Judi Lynn]

High Court Refuses Guard Slayings Case

By PETE YOST
The Associated Press
Monday, February 26, 2007; 11:39 AM

WASHINGTON -- The Supreme Court on Monday declined to hear a lawsuit against a private security company stemming from the slaying of four of its guards by an angry mob in Iraq.

Blackwater Security Consulting LLC is trying to have the wrongful death case brought by the estates of the four men transferred from the North Carolina state court system to the federal courts.

By turning down Blackwater's request, the Supreme Court leaves the case in state court.

Blackwater's lawyers pointed to the potential implications of the case with "myriad federal contractors serving in Iraq and Afghanistan."
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