Headquarters, Department of the Army Department of the Army Pamphlet 27-50-444 May 2010 Articles The Expanded Legal Assistance Program Major Joshua A. Berger Command Authority: What Are the Limits on Regulating the Private Conduct of America’s Warrior Major Troy C. Wallace Making a Molehill Out of a Mountain: The U.S. Army Counterinsurgency Doctrine Applied to Operational Law in Iraq Captain Russell E. Norman and Captain Ryan W. Leary Pretrial Advice for Representing Mentally Ill Criminal Defendants in the Military Justice System Thomas Barnard and James Ewing Medical Treatment of Foreign Nationals: Another COIN of the Realm Captain Robert D. Hodges Book Reviews CLE News Current Materials of Interest Editor, Captain Ronald T. P. Alcala Technical Editor, Charles J. Strong The Army Lawyer (ISSN 0364-1287, USPS 490-330) is published monthly interest to military lawyers. 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The Army Lawyer welcomes articles from all military and civilian authors on topics of New Developments U.S. Army Legal Services Agency ............................................................................................................................................. 1 Criminal Law .............................................................................................................................................................................. 1 Administrative and Civil Law ................................................................................................................................................... 1 Lore of the Corps Shot by Firing Squad: The Trial and Execution of Pvt. Eddie Slovik Fred L. Borch III ...................................................................................................................................................................... 3 Articles The Expanded Legal Assistance Program Major Joshua A. Berger ............................................................................................................................................................ 5 Command Authority: What Are the Limits on Regulating the Private Conduct of America’s Warrior Major Troy C. Wallace ............................................................................................................................................................. 13 Making a Molehill Out of a Mountain: The U.S. Army Counterinsurgency Doctrine Applied to Operational Law in Iraq Captain Russell E. Norman and Captain Ryan W. Leary .............................................................................................................. 22 Pretrial Advice for Representing Mentally Ill Criminal Defendants in the Military Justice System Thomas Barnard and James Ewing ............................................................................................................................................ 43 Medical Treatment of Foreign Nationals: Another COIN of the Realm Captain Robert D. Hodges ........................................................................................................................................................ 52 Book Reviews Wired for War: The Robotics Revolution and Conflict in the Twenty-First Century Reviewed by Major Michael P. 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Inside Back Cover MAY 2010 • THE ARMY LAWYER • DA PAM 27-50-444 New Developments U.S. Army Legal Services Agency following day were not covered by the exclusivity provisions of the DBA because KBR had information Court Grants Partial Summary Judgment in KBR demonstrating that, on 9 April 2004, attacks on the convoys Convoy Cases were “expected” and no longer considered an “accident” under the statute. Accordingly, the court denied the KBR On 25 March 2010, in Fisher v. Halliburton,1 the motion for summary judgment regarding the Fisher and District Court for the Southern District of Texas granted Lane convoy claims. The court stayed the Fisher and Lane partial summary judgment in favor of KBR. Pursuant to the cases pending interlocutory appeal to the Fifth Circuit Court LOGCAP III contract, KBR operated convoys in Kuwait and of Appeals. The trial, set for 24 May 2010 in Houston, Iraq supplying materiel for the Army. On 8 and 9 April Texas, is postponed pending the outcome of the 2004, three KBR convoys were attacked by insurgents near interlocutory appeals. —Litigation Division. Camp Anaconda, Iraq, resulting in numerous deaths and injuries to KBR employees. Plaintiffs filed suit against KBR in 2005 alleging numerous causes of action, including fraud Criminal Law regarding the safety and nature of the work in Iraq, tort claims, and the intentional deployment of convoys knowing Criminal Law Advocacy Course (CLAC) the convoys would be attacked. KBR alleged in a motion for summary judgment that the Defense Base Act (DBA)2 Because of the high demand, the CLAC has been provided the exclusive remedy for all of plaintiffs’ claims. transformed into a one-week course that will be offered four times a year (instead of a two-week course offered twice a The DBA, which incorporates the Longshore and year). Two courses will be offered in the Fall and two in the Harbor Workers’ Compensation Act (LHWCA),3 applies to Spring, during consecutive weeks. The dates for the Fall employees engaged in public works contracts with the course are as follows: United States or its agencies to be performed outside the continental United States.4 “Public works” includes 34th CLAC: 13–17 Sep 10* “projects or operations under service contracts and projects 35th CLAC: 20–24 Sep 10* in connection with the national defense or with war activities.”5 The DBA is similar to state workers’ The new CLAC will continue to utilize small-group compensation statutes in that it, along with the LHWCA, advocacy exercises and mock trials, so the course will determines the benefits for the injury or death of a covered remain “invitation only” on ATRRS to allow management of employee. The LHWCA defines “injury” as an accidental slots. To secure seats at the September courses, please have injury or death arising out of and in the course of your Chief of Justice contact Major Chuck Neill, CLAC employment.6 The liability of an employer under the DBA Course Manager, (434) 971-3343, (DSN 521) or is the exclusive remedy for covered employees.7 [email protected]. The court determined that