page_title: Death of Robert Stevens
section_title: Lawsuit
hierarchical_section_title: Death of Robert Stevens / Death / Lawsuit
caption_attribution_description: English: Downtown skyline of Boca Raton from Gumbo Limbo's observation tower, looking northwest.
context_page_description: Robert K. "Bob" Stevens was a British-born American photojournalist for the Sun, a subsidiary of American Media, located in Boca Raton, Florida, United States. He was the first journalist killed in the 2001 anthrax attacks when letters containing anthrax were mailed to multiple media outlets in the United States. The anthrax attacks also killed four others in the United States and sickened seventeen others.
context_section_description: Maureen Stevens, wife of Robert Stevens, filed a US $50 million lawsuit in 2003 against the government of the United States. In the lawsuit, Maureen Stevens claimed "that the government was negligent in failing to stop someone from working at an Army infectious disease lab from creating weapons-grade anthrax used in letters that killed five people and sickened 17 others." Ten years after filing the lawsuit, Maureen Stevens settled with the United States government for US $2.5 million. After Maureen and her lawyer settled with the government, Maureen's lawyer said, "Justice has been served."
caption: Boca Raton, Florida, is where Robert Stevens worked before his death.
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