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  1. April 21, 2017

    DynCorp Prevails In Ecuadorean Farmers' Herbicide Suit

    A Washington, D.C., federal jury on Thursday largely sided with DynCorp in a suit brought by six farmers representing a class of Ecuadoreans who claim the defense contractor poisoned them with herbicide while trying to destroy drug crops in Colombia.

  2. April 10, 2017

    DynCorp Denies Liability For Contractor Chem Spray Pilots

    Defense contractor DynCorp and plaintiffs suing it for allegedly poisoning farmers in Ecuador with herbicide while trying to eradicate drug crops in Colombia sparred in midtrial briefs filed in Washington, D.C., federal court Sunday over whether the company could be held liable for actions of pilots employed by subcontractors and Colombian police.

  3. November 02, 2016

    Ecuadoreans' Battery Claims Tossed In DynCorp Spray Suit

    A Washington, D.C., federal court has further pared down claims from Ecuadorean nationals who say DynCorp battered them with herbicide during a drug eradication program, granting in part the company's motion for summary judgment.

  4. July 15, 2016

    DynCorp Chem Spray Suit Given Second Wind

    A D.C. federal judge gave some much-needed lifeblood to two lawsuits against DynCorp over an anti-drug herbicide operation in Colombia, saying Friday she was not buying the defense contractor's argument that rulings against 20 plaintiffs apply to the roughly 2,000-strong class allegedly exposed to the chemical.

  5. December 16, 2014

    DynCorp Hammers Ecuadorians' Surviving Chem-Spray Claims

    Dyncorp International Inc. on Monday targeted the remaining claims of 2,000 Ecuadorian workers allegedly harmed by the contractor's spraying of herbicides along the Colombia-Ecuador border to eradicate suspected drug farms, arguing nuisance wasn't a valid claim and the company lacked individual intent to batter or distress each worker.

  6. March 06, 2013

    DynCorp Dodges Ecuadoreans' Chemical-Exposure Suit

    Government contractor DynCorp International Inc. has escaped a suit over injuries purportedly caused by anti-narcotic herbicides sprayed at the Colombia-Ecuador border, after a Washington, D.C., judge determined the plaintiffs could not establish causation, according to an opinion unsealed Tuesday.

  7. July 13, 2012

    DynCorp Says US Drug Policy Bars Ecuadoreans' Herbicide Suit

    Government contractor DynCorp International Inc. asked a federal judge Thursday to grant it summary judgment in a suit over an herbicide-spraying anti-narcotic effort at the Colombia-Ecuador border, saying a law giving the president authority to take such action preempts the suit's claims.

  8. April 24, 2012

    DynCorp Must Give Up Docs In Colombian Drug Spraying Row

    DynCorp International Inc. must hand over flight location records to about 3,200 Ecuadoreans who say the government contractor unleashed a harmful herbicide on their lands while conducting aerial spraying to kill drug crops in Colombia, according to a ruling published Monday.

  9. August 22, 2011

    DynCorp Again Seeks Quick Win In Drug Crop Spraying Row

    Contractor DynCorp International Inc. continued its efforts to shake the claims of Ecuadoreans who were allegedly injured by an aerial herbicide used in a joint U.S.-Colombian operation to kill cocaine plants, filing three new motions for summary judgment Friday in Washington.

  10. August 15, 2011

    DynCorp Claims Drug Spraying Suit Preempted By US Law

    DynCorp International Inc. on Monday in Washington again tried to shake a suit from a group of Ecuadoreans claiming injuries from an herbicide used in a drug eradication operation, saying the U.S. statute authorizing the operation expressly preempts the claims.

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