Taylor v. Kellogg Brown & Root Services, Inc.

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• holding that defense of contributory negligence would implicate sensitive military judgment regarding power generation
• applying political-question doctrine to dismiss suit regarding electrocution during generator repair that occurred on Army base near Fallujah, Iraq—in “combat theatre” but not in combat
• dismissing action against private contractor because “an analysis of [its] contributory negligence defense would invariably require the Court to decide whether ... the Marines made a reasonable decision”
• affirming ruling that negligence claim was nonjusticiable under the political question doctrine and vacating as moot accompanying ruling that claim was preempted by the FTCA combatant activities exception
• establishing second prong of political question analysis pertaining to military contractors’ civil liability as “whether national defense interests were closely intertwined with the military’s decisions governing [the contractor’s] conduct”
• “[W]e must, to resolve this appeal, gauge the degree to which national defense interests may be implicated in a judicial assessment of [the tort claim]”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

40 cases in this archive cite this case; the 20 most cited are listed.

• Alan Metzgar v. KBR, Incorporated
  Fourth Circuit· 2014-03-06· cited 132×
• Steve Cooksey v. Michelle Futrell
  Fourth Circuit· 2013-06-27· cited 131×
• Joshua Rich v. United States
  Fourth Circuit· 2015-12-29· cited 71×
• United States v. Frederick Springer
  Fourth Circuit· 2013-04-29· cited 57×
• Cheryl Harris v. Kellogg Brown & Root Services
  Third Circuit· 2013-08-01· cited 56×
• Suhail Al Shimari v. CACI Premier Technology, Inc.
  Fourth Circuit· 2014-06-30· cited 54×
• Al Shimari v. CACI International, Inc.
  Fourth Circuit· 2012-05-14· cited 49×
• United States Ex Rel. Bunk v. Government Logistics N.V.
  Fourth Circuit· 2016-11-15· cited 30×
• Suhail Al Shimari v. CACI Premier Technology, Inc.
  Fourth Circuit· 2016-10-21· cited 25×
• Al Shimari v. Caci International, Inc.
  Fourth Circuit· 2011-09-21· cited 24×
• Cooper v. Tokyo Electric Power Co.
  Ninth Circuit· 2017-06-22· cited 23×
• In re KBR, Inc.
  D. Maryland· 2013-02-27· cited 15×
• Wu Tien Li-Shou v. United States
  Fourth Circuit· 2015-01-23· cited 14×
• Cooper v. Tokyo Electric Power Co.
  S.D. California· 2015-06-11· cited 14×
• Mahmoud Hegab v. Letitia Long
  Fourth Circuit· 2013-04-25· cited 13×
• Ghane v. Mid-South Institute of Self Defense Shooting, Inc.
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 2014-01-16· cited 11×
• Du Daobin v. Cisco Systems, Inc.
  D. Maryland· 2014-02-24· cited 11×
• In re KBR, Inc.
  Fourth Circuit· 2018-06-20· cited 7×
• Donn v. A.W. Chesterton Co.
  E.D. Pennsylvania· 2012-02-01· cited 7×
• Harris v. KELLOGG, BROWN & ROOT SERVICES, INC.
  W.D. Pennsylvania· 2011-09-23· cited 5×

Cites

15 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Baker v. Carr
  Supreme Court· 1962-03-26· cited 6,173×
• Ashwander v. Tennessee Valley Authority
  Supreme Court· 1936-02-17· cited 3,147×
• Kerns v. United States
  Fourth Circuit· 2009-10-29· cited 1,050×
• Lane v. Halliburton
  Fifth Circuit· 2008-05-28· cited 480×
• Alvarez v. Smith
  Supreme Court· 2009-12-08· cited 349×
• Carmichael v. Kellogg, Brown & Root Services, Inc.
  Eleventh Circuit· 2009-06-30· cited 291×
• Norfolk Southern Railway Co. v. City of Alexandria
  Fourth Circuit· 2010-06-16· cited 141×
• Saleh v. Titan Corp.
  D.C. Circuit· 2009-09-11· cited 128×
• McMahon Ex Rel. the Estate of McMahon v. Presidential Airways, Inc.
  Eleventh Circuit· 2007-10-05· cited 116×
• Koohi v. United States
  Ninth Circuit· 1992-10-08· cited 94×
• Pitt County v. Hotels.Com, L.P.
  Fourth Circuit· 2009-01-14· cited 88×
• Johnson v. United States
  Ninth Circuit· 1948-11-05· cited 44×
• Ponirakis v. Choi
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 2001-06-08· cited 26×
• Al Shimari v. Caci International, Inc.
  Fourth Circuit· 2011-09-21· cited 24×
• Al-Quraishi v. L-3 Services, Inc.
  Fourth Circuit· 2011-09-21· cited 18×