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Article

22 Nov 2011

Author:
Zoe Tillman, BLT: The Blog of Legal Times [USA]

Failure to Serve Sends Father of Slain Iraqi Woman Back to Square One [USA]

The District of Columbia Court of Appeals affirmed...the dismissal...of a lawsuit against Unity Resources Group..., a private security company accused of fatally shooting an Iraqi woman in 2007. The plaintiff, the woman's father, hadn't properly served the company, the court found, but it left the door open for him to refile his complaint. Jalal Askander's daughter, Genevia Jalal Antranick, was traveling by car in Baghdad in October 2007 when private security guards working for Unity Resources Group allegedly opened fire. Askander has been trying to sue Unity Resources Group and the primary contractor that hired them, RTI International, a North Carolina nonprofit, since 2008...[T]he judges wrote that Askander’s lawsuit against Unity Resources Group failed the moment he didn’t properly serve the company in the District; a representative was served in Virginia. The dismissal was without prejudice, meaning Askander can refile his complaint and serve Unity Resources Group “as he indicated at oral argument that he would,” the judges wrote.