Legal Opinion
Vance v. Rumsfeld
District Court, N.D. Illinois
Decided March 5, 2010No. 06 C 6964PublishedCited by 9 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
MEMORANDUM OPINION AND ORDER
WAYNE R. ANDERSEN, District Judge.
This case is before the court on defendant Donald Rumsfeld’s motion to dismiss plaintiffs’ second amended complaint pur suant to Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 12(b)(6). For the reasons set forth below, the motion to dismiss [135] is denied as to Count I and granted with respect to Counts II and III.
BACKGROUND
According to the complaint, plaintiffs Donald Vance (“Vance”) and Nathan Ertel (“Ertel”), both American citizens, traveled to Iraq in the fall of 2005 to work for a private Iraqi security firm, Shield Group Security (“SGS”).…
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3Cited by9 opinions
- Donald Vance v. Donald RumsfeldCourt of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit · 2012
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