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To: jlallen who wrote (288559)	8/20/2002 5:00:06 PM
From: Karen Lawrence	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769670

LOLOL, This refutes your call: Within three years of the sale Highlands found itself saddled with 23,000 claims worth about $80 million from workers at Halliburton's Brown & Root construction subsidiary. Highland's attorneys have argued - successfully - that Cheney withheld "material information" about Brown & Root's insurance issues. Last month the Delaware Supreme Court upheld a lower court ruling in favor of Highlands. The Highlands case becomes the third instance in which Cheney's 5-year reign as Halliburton's CEO has come under scrutiny. The SEC is currently investigating accounting changes Cheney ordered in which uncollected debts were counted as income