Susan Burke abu ghraib

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</div><div style="font-size: small; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><div id="mw-content-text" lang="en" dir="ltr" class="mw-content-ltr" style="direction: ltr; color: rgb(37, 37, 37); line-height: 22.4px;">Susan L. Burke is an American personal injury lawyer known for cases in which she has represented plaintiffs suing the American military or military contractors, such as the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abtan_v.Blackwater" title="Abtan v. Blackwater" style="text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); outline: none; background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">Abtan v. Blackwater</a> case. She represented former detainees of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baghdad_Central_Prison" class="mw-redirect" title="Baghdad Central Prison" style="text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); outline: none; background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">Abu Ghraib</a> prison in a suit against interrogators and translators from <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CACI" title="CACI" style="text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); outline: none; background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">CACI</a> and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Titan_Corp." class="mw-redirect" title="Titan Corp." style="text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); outline: none; background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">Titan Corp.</a>[<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed" style="text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); outline: none; background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">citation needed</a>] who were tasked with obtaining <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Military_intelligence" title="Military intelligence" style="text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); outline: none; background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">military intelligence</a> from them during their detention.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Susan_L.Burke#cite_note-20110319TheCenterforConstitutionalRights-1" style="text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); outline: none; background: none;">[1]</a><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Susan_L.Burke#cite_note-20110309TheCenterforConstitutionalRights-2" style="text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); outline: none; background: none;">[2]</a>
<div id="toc" class="toc" style="border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 7px; display: table; zoom: 1; background-color: rgb(249, 249, 249);"><div id="toctitle" style="direction: ltr; text-align: center;"><h2 style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); margin: 1em 0px 0.25em; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; border: none; display: inline; line-height: 1.3; background: none;">Contents</h2>  [<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Susan_L.Burke#" id="togglelink" style="text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); outline: none; background: none;">hide</a>] </div><ul style="list-style-type: none; margin: 0.3em 0px; padding: 0px; list-style-image: none;"><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-1" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Susan_L.Burke#Early_life_and_education" style="text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); outline: none; background: none;">1Early life and education</a></li><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-2" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Susan_L.Burke#Career" style="text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); outline: none; background: none;">2Career</a></li><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-3" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Susan_L.Burke#Notable_cases" style="text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); outline: none; background: none;">3Notable cases</a><ul style="list-style-type: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 2em; padding: 0px; list-style-image: none;"><li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-4" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Susan_L.Burke#Abtan_v.Blackwater" style="text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); outline: none; background: none;">3.1Abtan v. Blackwater</a></li><li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-5" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Susan_L.Burke#Saleh_v.Titan_Corp." style="text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); outline: none; background: none;">3.2Saleh v. Titan Corp.</a></li><li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-6" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Susan_L.Burke#Davis_v.U.S.Training_Center.2C_Inc." style="text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); outline: none; background: none;">3.3Davis v. U.S. Training Center, Inc.</a></li></ul></li><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-7" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Susan_L.Burke#References" style="text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); outline: none; background: none;">4References</a></li></ul></div><h2 style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-weight: normal; margin: 1em 0px 0.25em; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); line-height: 1.3; background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-color: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">Early life and education[<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Susan_L.Burke&action=edit&section=1&editintro=Template:BLP_editintro" title="Edit section: Early life and education" style="text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); outline: none; background: none;">edit</a>]</h2>Burke, the daughter of a career Army officer, grew up on various Army bases.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Susan_L.Burke#cite_note-3" style="text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); outline: none; background: none;">[3]</a> She majored in international law and politics at <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georgetown_University" title="Georgetown University" style="text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); outline: none; background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-color: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">Georgetown University</a>, and received her <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Juris_Doctor" title="Juris Doctor" style="text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); outline: none; background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-color: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">J.D.</a> in 1987 from the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Columbus_School_of_Law" title="Columbus School of Law" style="text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); outline: none; background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-color: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">Columbus School of Law</a> at <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Catholic_University_of_America" class="mw-redirect" title="The Catholic University of America" style="text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); outline: none; background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-color: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">the Catholic University of America</a>.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Susan_L.Burke#cite_note-Profile-4" style="text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); outline: none; background: none;">[4]</a><h2 style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-weight: normal; margin: 1em 0px 0.25em; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); line-height: 1.3; background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-color: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">Career[<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Susan_L.Burke&action=edit&section=2&editintro=Template:BLP_editintro" title="Edit section: Career" style="text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); outline: none; background: none;">edit</a>]</h2>In 2000, Burke became an Equity Partner at the law firm of Montgomery, McCracken, Walker and Rhoads LLP. In August<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Susan_L.Burke#cite_note-Profile-4" style="text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); outline: none; background: none;">[4]</a> of 2005 she left to form her own firm, which has been known, in turn, as Burke Pyle LLC, Burke O'Neil LLC, and Burke PLLC.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Susan_L.Burke#cite_note-History-5" style="text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); outline: none; background: none;">[5]</a>Since establishing her firm, Burke has taken on a number of cases. For example, she has represented accused terrorists who have sought damages from the U.S. Government, which had detained them as <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enemy_combatant" title="Enemy combatant" style="text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); outline: none; background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">enemy combatants</a>. As defense counsel for seventeen plaintiffs who said they had been <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sexual_assault_in_the_United_States_military" title="Sexual assault in the United States military" style="text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); outline: none; background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">sexually assaulted</a> by colleagues in the military, she filed suit against former <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Secretary_of_Defense" title="United States Secretary of Defense" style="text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); outline: none; background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">Secretaries of Defense</a> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald_Rumsfeld" title="Donald Rumsfeld" style="text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); outline: none; background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">Donald Rumsfeld</a> and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Gates" title="Robert Gates" style="text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); outline: none; background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">Robert Gates</a> on the grounds that they were partially responsible for creating a military environment that made such assaults possible. She also sought payments for the families of Iraqi citizens who had allegedly been killed or injured on a busy Baghdad street by employees of private military company <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blackwater(company)" class="mw-redirect" title="Blackwater (company)" style="text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); outline: none; background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">Blackwater</a>.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Susan_L.Burke#cite_note-Saleh-6" style="text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); outline: none; background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">[</a><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Susan_L.Burke#cite_note-Saleh-6" style="text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); outline: none; background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-color: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">6]</a><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Susan_L.Burke#cite_note-Army_Times-7" style="text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); outline: none; background: none;">[7]</a><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Susan_L.Burke#cite_note-Abtan-8" style="text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); outline: none; background: none;">[8]</a>Reports published in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_New_York_Times" title="The New York Times" style="text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); outline: none; background: none;">The New York Times</a> and for <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CBS_News" title="CBS News" style="text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); outline: none; background: none;">CBS News</a> were critical of Burke's defense of Abu Ghraib detainees, citing Pentagon reports stating that 14-20% of individuals who have been released from such facilities because they have been deemed not to pose a serious threat <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lists_of_former_Guantanamo_Bay_detainees_alleged_to_have_returned_to_terrorism" title="Lists of former Guantanamo Bay detainees alleged to have returned to terrorism" style="text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); outline: none; background: none;">allegedly resume terrorist activities</a>.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Susan_L.Burke#cite_note-NY_Times-Recidivism-9" style="text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); outline: none; background: none;">[9]</a><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Susan_L.Burke#cite_note-CBS-Recidivism-10" style="text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); outline: none; background: none;">[10]</a> One such former detainee, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ibrahim_Shafir_Sen" class="mw-redirect" title="Ibrahim Shafir Sen" style="text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); outline: none; background: none;">Ibrahim Shafir Sen</a>, who was released from Guantanamo and, with Burke as his attorney, filed a suit against Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld,<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Susan_L.Burke#cite_note-11" style="text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); outline: none; background: none;">[11]</a> was later re-arrested in Turkey and charged with being a leader of an al-Qaida terrorist cell.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Susan_L.Burke#cite_note-12" style="text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); outline: none; background: none;">[12]</a> Burke, however, consistently maintains the innocence of her clients, saying of them, "These innocent men were senselessly tortured by U.S. companies that profited from their misery."<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Susan_L.Burke#cite_note-Fox-13" style="text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); outline: none; background: none;">[13]</a><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Susan_L.Burke#cite_note-Overseas-14" style="text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); outline: none; background: none;">[14]</a>During a hearing on the civil immunity of government contractors working at Abu Ghraib, Burke asserted that enemy combatants should have the right to sue U.S. soldiers if the U.S. attorney general "fails to intervene." The court disagreed.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Susan_L.Burke#cite_note-Immunity-15" style="text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); outline: none; background: none;">[15]</a>In September 2013 she filed a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Defamation" title="Defamation" style="text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); outline: none; background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">defamation</a> lawsuit to discover the identities of two anonymous Wikipedia editors who she alleged had inserted misleading information into her Wikipedia article (i.e. this article). One of her goals of the suit was to discover if there was a connection between those two editors and Blackwater.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Susan_L.Burke#cite_note-16" style="text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); outline: none; background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">[16]</a> One of the John Does filed an anti-<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SLAPP" class="mw-redirect" title="SLAPP" style="text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); outline: none; background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">SLAPP</a> lawsuit against Burke, backed by the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Center_for_Individual_Rights" title="Center for Individual Rights" style="text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); outline: none; background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">Center for Individual Rights</a>, asserting that her lawsuit was intended to chill or silence speech. The trial court denied Doe's motion. But on May 29, 2014 the DC Court of Appeals reversed that decision. The appeals court specifically held that "Ms. Burke is public figure," "she is required to show malice on [John Doe's] part in order to succeed on her defamation claim," and that "she is unlikely to be able to do so [show actual malice] here." <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Susan_L.Burke#cite_note-17" style="text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); outline: none; background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">[17]</a> The appeals court said that Doe could now pursue recovery of legal fees in the trial court.<h2 style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-weight: normal; margin: 1em 0px 0.25em; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); line-height: 1.3; background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-color: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">Notable cases[<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Susan_L.Burke&action=edit&section=3&editintro=Template:BLP_editintro" title="Edit section: Notable cases" style="text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); outline: none; background: none;">edit</a>]</h2><h3 style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); margin: 0.3em 0px 0px; overflow: hidden; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; border-bottom-style: none; line-height: 1.6; background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-color: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">Abtan v. Blackwater[<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Susan_L.Burke&action=edit&section=4&editintro=Template:BLP_editintro" title="Edit section: Abtan v. Blackwater" style="text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); outline: none; background: none;">edit</a>]</h3><div role="note" class="hatnote" style="font-style: italic; padding-left: 1.6em; margin-bottom: 0.5em;">See also: <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abtan_v.Blackwater" title="Abtan v. Blackwater" style="text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); outline: none; background: none;">Abtan v. Blackwater</a></div>Burke represented plaintiffs Talib Mutlaq Deewan and the estates of Himoud Saed Abtan, Usama Fadil Abbass and Oday Ismail Ibraheem in a lawsuit against Blackwater (now <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Academi" title="Academi" style="text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); outline: none; background: none;">Academi</a>). The lawsuit, which stemmed from the firefight in Nisoor Square in Baghdad, alleged Blackwater had violated the federal <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alien_Tort_Statute" title="Alien Tort Statute" style="text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); outline: none; background: none;">Alien Tort Statute</a> by committing <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extrajudicial_killing" title="Extrajudicial killing" style="text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); outline: none; background: none;">extrajudicial killing</a> and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_crime" title="War crime" style="text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); outline: none; background: none;">war crimes</a>, and that the company was liable for assault and battery, wrongful death, intentional and negligent infliction of emotional distress, and negligent hiring, training and supervision.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Susan_L.Burke#cite_note-18" style="text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); outline: none; background: none;">[18]</a> The lawsuit was settled on January 6, 2010.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Susan_L.Burke#cite_note-Abtan-8" style="text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); outline: none; background: none;">[8]</a>In 2013 Burke levied a defamation lawsuit against two Wikipedia editors for confusing the Atban case and a similar criminal case against Blackwater in the text of her Wikipedia entry, in addition to adding other information she believed to be false. Burke claimed that the confusion between cases may have been the result of a conflict-of-interest for the editors in question, alleging that the editors were possibly working for Blackwater at the time of the edits. One of the defending editors' attorneys, Christopher Hajec of the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Center_for_Individual_Rights" title="Center for Individual Rights" style="text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); outline: none; background: none;">Center for Individual Rights</a>, argued that the lawsuit could have the effect of chilling freedom of speech and the willingness of Wikipedia editors to "edit on matters of public concern".<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Susan_L.Burke#cite_note-19" style="text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); outline: none; background: none;">[19]</a> On May 29, 2014, a Washington DC court quashed one of her two subpoenas of John Doe editors, as a result of the application of anti-<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SLAPP" class="mw-redirect" title="SLAPP" style="text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); outline: none; background: none;">SLAPP</a> laws. The other's subpoena was not quashed in the decision.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Susan_L.Burke#cite_note-20" style="text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); outline: none; background: none;">[20]</a><h3 style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); margin: 0.3em 0px 0px; overflow: hidden; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; border-bottom-style: none; line-height: 1.6; background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-color: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">Saleh v. Titan Corp.[<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Susan_L.Burke&action=edit&section=5&editintro=Template:BLP_editintro" title="Edit section: Saleh v. Titan Corp." style="text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); outline: none; background: none;">edit</a>]</h3>In 2008, a federal judge in Virginia allowed former detainees to sue <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CACI_International_Inc." class="mw-redirect" title="CACI International Inc." style="text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); outline: none; background: none;">CACI International Inc.</a> and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Titan_Corp." class="mw-redirect" title="Titan Corp." style="text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); outline: none; background: none;">Titan Corp.</a>[<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Verifiability" title="Wikipedia:Verifiability" style="text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); outline: none; background: none;">not in citation given</a>] for mistreatment while being held in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abu_Ghraib" title="Abu Ghraib" style="text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); outline: none; background: none;">Abu Ghraib</a>. Burke represented a group of men suing these organizations.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Susan_L.Burke#cite_note-20110319TheCenterforConstitutionalRights-1" style="text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); outline: none; background: none;">[1]</a> The case was dismissed on September 11, 2009 by a panel of the Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia, on the ground that the charges could not be brought against the contractors under the Alien Tort Statute. On June 27, 2011, the Supreme Court refused to review the case.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Susan_L.Burke#cite_note-Saleh-6" style="text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); outline: none; background: none;">[6]</a><h3 style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); margin: 0.3em 0px 0px; overflow: hidden; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; border-bottom-style: none; line-height: 1.6; background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-color: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">Davis v. U.S. Training Center, Inc.[<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Susan_L.Burke&action=edit&section=6&editintro=Template:BLP_editintro" title="Edit section: Davis v. U.S. Training Center, Inc." style="text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); outline: none; background: none;">edit</a>]</h3>A suit, officially known as United States of America, ex rel. Melan Davis and Brad Davis v. <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/U.S.Training_Center" class="mw-redirect" title="U.S. Training Center" style="text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); outline: none; background: none;">U.S. Training Center, Inc.</a>, f/k/a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blackwater_Training_Center" class="mw-redirect" title="Blackwater Training Center" style="text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); outline: none; background: none;">Blackwater Lodge and Training Center, Inc.</a>, was filed in the U.S. Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals on October 28, 2011,<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Susan_L.Burke#cite_note-Justia-21" style="text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); outline: none; background: none;">[21]</a> under the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/False_Claims_Act" title="False Claims Act" style="text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); outline: none; background: none;">False Claims Act</a> (FCA). The plaintiffs, Melan and Brad Davis, alleged that their former employer, U.S. Training Center, had overbilled and defrauded the U.S. government while providing security services in New Orleans after <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hurricane_Katrina" title="Hurricane Katrina" style="text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); outline: none; background: none;">Hurricane Katrina</a>, as well as in Iraq and Afghanistan.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Susan_L.Burke#cite_note-Doc_513-22" style="text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); outline: none; background: none;">[22]</a> On August 5, 2011, a jury ruled in favor of U.S. Training Center. Much of the evidence presented had been ruled by <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_federal_judge" title="United States federal judge" style="text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); outline: none; background: none;">Federal Judge</a><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/T.S.Ellis_III" class="mw-redirect" title="T.S. Ellis III" style="text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); outline: none; background: none;">T.S. Ellis III</a> to be either inadmissible or unsubstantiated, including the oft-reported<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Susan_L.Burke#cite_note-23" style="text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); outline: none; background: none;">[23]</a><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Susan_L.Burke#cite_note-24" style="text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); outline: none; background: none;">[24]</a> claim that the contractors had billed the government for prostitutes.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Susan_L.Burke#cite_note-Military-25" style="text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); outline: none; background: none;">[25]</a><h2 style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-weight: normal; margin: 1em 0px 0.25em; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); line-height: 1.3; background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-color: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">References</h2></div></div>