Still, lawyers are seeking a Canadian law firm to help collect the money from 28-year-old Omar Khadr, who was released from a Canadian prison last month, Tanner said.

Judge awards $134M in suit over soldiers' death, injury

By News on the Net Army Times——Bio and Archives--July 3, 2015

SALT LAKE CITY — A federal judge in Utah has awarded $134.2 million to an American solider injured in Afghanistan and the widow of another soldier killed there in a lawsuit filed against a Canadian man who pleaded guilty in a grenade attack involving the two soldiers when he was 15.

However, the plaintiffs acknowledge there is little chance they will collect any of the money. "It's really more of a statement case, I think, than a desire to collect this," lawyer Laura Tanner, who represents the plaintiffs, said Thursday. More...

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