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    Veterans Claiming Illness From Burn Pits Lose Court Fight

    Hundreds of veterans sued military contractor KBR Inc., alleging toxic smoke from burn pits at military bases made them ill. A federal appellate court said compensation must come from Congress.
    by Quil Lawrence Jan 16, 2019 3 minutes
    U.S. soldiers traverse fields on the way to conducting house-to- house searches in 2007 in Mukhisa, Iraq.

    A decade-long fight ended at the Supreme Court this week, when justices refused to hear an appeal by veterans of Iraq and Afghanistan who say that toxic smoke from burn pits made them sick.

    Hundreds of those veterans had sued the military contracting giant but lost first in U.S. district court and then again last year in the . The 4th Circuit said KBR was under U.S. military direction when

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