The Supreme Court dismissed the POWs case as well as an award of $959 million that the seventeen soldiers had won against Iraq in a lower federal court.
The lawsuit filed by the former POWs, as well as 37 members of their families, claimed that they had suffered from "severe beatings, starvation, and subjection to severe cold and filth" during their captivity in Iraq.
Aljazeera article
A little hard to sue for that when you're using it yourself.
In July 2003, the soldiers won nearly $1 billion verdict in a federal trial court in Washington.
But the Bush administration intervened in the case and pushed for the verdict to be dismissed.
The administration said that Iraq couldn’t be sued under federal law after the 2003 U.S.-led invasion. It also stated that the money that had been awarded to the former POWs was needed for reconstruction work in war-torn Iraq.
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