IN RE KBR, INC., BURN PIT LITIGATION

No. 13-1430.

744 F.3d 326 (2014)

In re KBR, INCORPORATED, BURN PIT LITIGATION. Alan Metzgar; Paul Parker; Richard Ronald Guilmette; William G. Brister, Jr.; Henry J. O'Neill; Michael Auw; Cory Casalegno; Michael Douglas Moore; David U. Lackey; Randall L. Robinson; Dean Guy Olson; Albert Paul Bittel, III; Fred Robert Atkinson, Jr.; Robyn Sachs, Personal Representative of Christopher Sachs, Deceased; Jennifer Montijo; Stephen Flowers; Joanne Ochs; Melissa Ochs; James Morgan; David Newton; Chris Boggiano; Earl Chavis; Benny Lyle Reynolds; Joshua Eller; Robert Cain; Craig Henry; Francis Jaeger; David Mcmenomy; Mark Posz; El Kevin Sar; Smsgt. Glen S. Massman; Ssgt. Wendy L. McBreairty; Pablo Berchini; Brian P. Robinson; Maurice Callue; Dennis Wayne Briggs; Edward Lee Buquo; Wayne E. Fabozzi; Sharlene S. Jaggernauth; Floyd James Johnson, Sr.; Tamra C. Johnson; Richard Lee Keith; Daniel Santiago Morales; Phillip McQuillan; Ildebbrando Perez; Luigi Antonio Provenza; Ruth Ann Reece; Eduardo Saavedra, Sr.; Jill R. Wilkins, Personal Representative of Kevin E. Wilkins, Deceased; Michael Donnell Williams; Jermaine Lynell Wright; Edward Adams; Kenneth Baldwin; Donna Wu; John Does 1-1000; Jane Does 1-1000; Wallace McNabb; Kevin Paul Robbins; Brian Blumline; Robert Bidinger; Unknown Parties; Benjamin Boeke; Craig Kervin; Barry Zabielinski; David Green; Nick Daniel Heisler; Derrol A. Turner; Vincent C. Moseley; Alex Harley; John A. Wester, Jr.; Bill Jack Carlisle, Jr.; Anthony Edward Roles; Marcos Barranco; Joel Lugo; Shawn Thomas Sheridan; Jayson Williams; Eunice Ramirez; Lee Warren Jellison, Jr.; George Lundy; Thomas Kelleck; Dan Bowlds; Tony Allen Gouckenour; John William Jackson; John Pete Troost; Deborah Ann Wheelock; Charles Hicks; Sean Alexander Stough; Jeffrey Morgan Cox; James Warren Garland; Danny Lapierre; Kenneth Harris; Anthony Jerome Williams; Kathy Vines; Patrick Cassidy; William Barry Dutton; Christopher Michael Kozel; Richard Mcandrew; Lorenzo Perez; Jessey Joseph Philip Baca; Daniel Tijernia; Heinz Alex Disch; James McCollem; Travis Fidell Pugh; Anthony Ray Johnson; David Michael Rohmfeld; Joshua David Beavers; Matthew Joel Fields; Steven E. Gardner; Stephen R. Jones; Kevin Scott Tewes; Hans Nicolas Yu; Thomas Olson; Brian Paulus; Paul Michael Wiatr; Michael Foth; Brett Anthony Mazzara; Lisa Rounds, Personal Representative of Andrew Ray Rounds, Deceased; David Rounds, Personal Representative of Andrew Ray Rounds, Deceased; Peter Blumer; Scott Andrew Chamberlain; Timothy E. Dimon; William Philip Krawczyk, Sr.; Sean Johnson; Sherry Bishop, Individually and as Representative of the Estate of Kirk A. Bishop; Gene Bishop; Patrick Bishop; Albert Johnson, Jr.; David Jobes; Gene Leonard Matson; Timothy J. Watson; Andrew Mason; Michelle Brown; Jonathan Lynn; Charles Kinney; Michael Mcclain; Basil Salem; Justin Gonzales; Matthew Guthery; Christopher Lippard; David Parr; John F. Monahan; Amanda Brannon; L. Chandler Brannon, and all others similarly situated, Plaintiffs-Appellants, v. KBR, Incorporated; Kellogg Brown & Root, LLC; Halliburton Company; Kellogg Brown & Root Services, Incorporated; Brown and Root Services; Dii Industries, LLC; Halliburton Energy Services, Inc.; KBR Holdings, LLC; Kellogg Brown & Root, Incorporated; Kellogg Brown & Root International, Incorporated; KBR Group Holdings Incorporated; KBR Technical Services, Incorporated, Defendants-Appellees, and Erka Ltd, Defendant.

United States Court of Appeals, Fourth Circuit.

Decided: March 6, 2014.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

ARGUED: Susan L. Burke , BURKE PLLC, Washington, D.C., for Appellants. Robert A. Matthews , McKenna Long & Aldridge LLP, Washington, D.C., for Appellees. ON BRIEF: Joseph Rice , Frederick C. Baker , James W. Ledlie , Motley & Rice, LLP, Mt. Pleasant, South Carolina, for Appellants. Raymond B. Biagini , Daniel L. Russell, Jr. , Shannon G. Konn , McKenna Long & Aldridge LLP, Washington, D.C., for Appellees.

Vacated and remanded by published opinion. Judge FLOYD wrote the opinion, in which Judge DIAZ and Judge ANDERSON have joined.


FLOYD, Circuit Judge:

Since the United States began its military operations in Afghanistan and Iraq in 2001 and 2003, respectively, its use of private contractors to support its mission has risen to "unprecedented levels." Comm'n on Wartime Contracting in Iraq and Afghanistan, At What Risk? Correcting Over-Reliance on Contractors in Contingency Operations 1 (Feb. 24, 2011) (laying out the findings of a bipartisan congressional commission). At times, the number...

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