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In New Orleans, Elation Over Katrina Liability Ruling
Since the first days after Hurricane Katrina, when the streets were still under water, many residents of New Orleans and its surroundings have maintained that the flood that wrecked their lives was the government's fault, and that the government should pay for it.On Wednesday night came news that many had hoped for but few had believed would ever actually happen: a federal judge agreed. The morning after Judge Stanwood R. Duval Jr.'s decision that the Army Corps of Engineers' negligent maintenance of a major navigation channel led to major flooding in the Lower Ninth Ward and the adjacent St. Bernard Parish, a pleasantly startled New Orleans was still trying to decipher what it meant. "Yes!! Free money from Obama. It's about time!" Posted by: KBK 2009-11-21 |
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