Motions To Share Discovery, Sanction Plaintiffs' Counsel Denied In Iraq War C6 Suit

PORTLAND, Ore - The magistrate judge presiding over the personal injury lawsuit filed in the U.S. District Court for the District of Oregon by Oregon National Guard members for hexavalent chromium exposure during a Restore Iraqi Oil mission issued an order March 25 denying a motion to modify a protective order to permit the veterans to share discovery with the United States and a defense motion for the imposition of sanctions on the plaintiffs for violating a restrictive order imposed on the parties before an October 2012 trial on the claims of a dozen test plaintiffs (Rocky Bixby, et al. v. KBR, Inc., et al., No. 09-632, D. Ore.; 2012 U.S. Dist. 179494; See 3/5/13, Page 23).
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