April 19, 2024
Three defense contractors warned a D.C. federal court that it would be improperly meddling with the executive branch's national security decisions if it didn't toss a lawsuit accusing the companies of supplying weapons used in Yemen's deadly civil war.
April 05, 2024
The Biden administration is again pushing to escape survivors' efforts to hold it accountable for U.S. allies' airstrikes in Yemen, telling a Washington, D.C., federal court it had no authority over the executive branch's foreign arms dealing.
October 20, 2023
RTX, Lockheed Martin and General Dynamics asked a Washington, D.C., federal judge to toss a suit seeking to hold them liable for allegedly indiscriminate and deliberate bombings of Yemeni civilians, saying survivors' claims were effectively challenges to U.S. foreign policy.
September 20, 2023
General Dynamics' CEO can't exit a lawsuit alleging the company supplied weapons to a Saudi-led coalition involved in Yemen's civil war after a D.C. federal judge on Wednesday rejected her contention that she had never been served with legal documents.
August 30, 2023
General Dynamics' CEO wants her name out of a lawsuit lodged by Yemeni bombing survivors who accused the defense contractor of supplying weapons to a Saudi-led coalition involved in Yemen's civil war, saying she hasn't yet received proof of service.
March 02, 2023
Lockheed Martin, Raytheon and General Dynamics were hit with a proposed class action on Thursday from Yemeni bombing survivors who alleged that their country's civil war would have ended years ago if the defense contractors and the U.S. government hadn't indiscriminately supplied weapons and enabled war crimes.