John Arthur Eaves
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September 6, 1966 Jackson, Mississippi, U.S. |
| Political party | Democratic |
| Spouse(s) | Angel Eaves |
| Children | John Sterling Brady Christian |
| Alma mater | University of Mississippi |
| Religion | Protestantism |
John Arthur Eaves, Jr. (born September 6, 1966) is an American personal injury lawyer and politician. He was the unsuccessful Democratic Party nominee in the 2007 general election for Governor of Mississippi.
John Arthur Eaves, Jr. began practicing law in 1991 after receiving his bachelor’s and law degrees from the University of Mississippi. As a trial lawyer, he has represented thousands of Mississippians in legal cases involving asbestos, pharmaceutical drugs, nursing home care, and complaints involving insurance companies.
Eaves also has been involved in several international cases. One concerned an incident in Cavalese, Italy, where a U.S. Marine plane severed a cable car line at a ski resort in northern Italy, killing 20 people; Eaves represented five German families and a Polish family. He also represented the nation of Ukraine against U.S. tobacco companies, suing for hundreds of millions of dollars.
Ongoing cases include Eaves' representation of U.S. soldiers with claims of suffering from complications as a result of the initial Gulf War, and of American nationals in Kenya against Osama bin Laden, several Islamic organizations, and the government of Sudan for the 1998 American embassy bombings in Nairobi and Kenya.
On September 5, 2007, the Eaves Law Firm filed suit against the United States Navy on behalf of 7,125 American citizens who live on the island of Vieques, Puerto Rico in the United States District Court for the District of Columbia in the case Sanchez v. USA. In the suit the Eaves Law Firm is helping the people of Vieques recover for the harm done to them as a result of contamination caused by over sixty years of Naval live fire training on the Island. In 2001 President Bush announced the Navy would end live fire exercises on the Island in 2003. At that time Bush stated, "There's been some harm done to people in the past. These are our friends and neighbors, and they don't want us there."
On February 11, 2005, two years after the Navy ceased operations, the United States Environmental Protection Agency listed the former Naval facility as a CERCLA Superfund site due to the widespread contamination left by the Navy. Scientific studies have discovered a link between the widespread contamination, which resulted from heavy metals, toxins, and other contaminates which bioaccumulated over the years, and a significantly higher rate of cancer, hypertension, diabetes, cirrhosis of the liver, low birth rate, and infant mortality on the Island.
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