Rape victim upset KBR trying to modify $3M arbitration award [View All]

[Louisiana1976]

Tracy Barker has been awarded almost $3 million by an arbitrator in assault charges against a U.S. contractor and former Halliburton subsidiary, after claiming she was raped in 2005 by a State Department employee in Iraq, the Associated Press reports.

"It took me a long time to get here. I'm happy about the award," she told the AP. But it's not over for her yet.

KBR has appealed the ruling and intends to shrink its payout to $300,000, according to Barker's website. Barker filed the suit in May 2007, but her case was dismissed the following year and relegated to be settled through arbitration rather than courts, as per a prior agreement with her employer.

"They are still dragging it out," the AP recorded her as saying. "They didn't win and now they want to amend the award. You can't with binding arbitration. How is that fair?"

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