Rumaila deal clears legal hurdle
Lawsuit claiming contract with BP and CNPC unconstitutional dismissed by Iraq's highest court.![](https://cdn.iraqoilreport.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/05/rumailasigning_resizedforweb.jpg)
Iraqi, BP and CNPC officials at the Rumaila oil field Technical Service Contract signing in 2009. (STAFF/Iraq Oil Report)
BAGHDAD - The legal uncertainty that cast a shadow over the biggest of Iraq's new oil contracts has been lifted by the country's top court, which on Monday dismissed a suit challenging the constitutionality of the deal.
In April, the court had imposed fees of 300 million Iraqi Dinars (about $257,000) on the plaintiff, Shetha Musawi, a former member of parliament. Unable to raise the money, having lost her lawyer, and having received death threats, Musawi did not appear at a hearing on Monday, her last chance to continue the case.
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