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Current Events => Breaking News => Topic started by: Chris on November 19, 2009, 09:13:56 AM
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A federal judge in New Orleans ruled Friday that a groundbreaking civil lawsuit brought by homeowners who suffered damages during Hurricane Katrina could go forward against the Army Corps of Engineers.
In his ruling, Judge Stanwood J. Duval Jr. of Federal District Court denied an effort by the Department of Justice to have the suit dismissed — the fourth such bid in the nearly three-year-old case — and set a trial date of April 20.
The trial will allow homeowners in New Orleans to make their case that the corps was responsible for the failure of levees along a major navigation channel that inundated parts the city.
The highest hurdle in such cases is the government’s claim of sovereign immunity, which can protect it from certain kinds of lawsuits. A similar suit concerning the failure of the city’s drainage canal floodwalls was dismissed by the same judge based on a law that protects the government from lawsuits over the failure of flood-control projects.
The current suit, Robinson v. United States, focuses not on the failure of flood-control structures but on the damage caused by the Mississippi River Gulf Outlet, a navigation canal on the city’s east side.
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/21/us/21suit.html
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Yup; the local levee boards are the ones who wasted, defrauded and abused the hell out of the money they were given to build and maintain the levees, and the Corps of Engineers gets the blame when the chicanery comes back to bite the corrupt mother****ers in the ass.
Sounds like an appropriate division of labor to me :sarcasm: [/sarcasm]
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Yup; the local levee boards are the ones who wasted, defrauded and abused the hell out of the money they were given to build and maintain the levees, and the Corps of Engineers gets the blame when the chicanery comes back to bite the corrupt mother****ers in the ass.
Sounds like an appropriate division of labor to me :sarcasm: [/sarcasm]
You won't get any argument from me on that. But, I believe what this one is about is the Mississippi River Gulf Outlet, and the Levee Board wasn't responsible for that one. And, seeing as the Levee Board is now defunct I think, well, they gotta go after someone that is still around and may have $$, right??? :sarcasm:
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Well if the ACE loses this then they need to pull out of Louisiana and let the natural flow of the river take it's course. It's the green thing to do.
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so if this goes forward, does it set a precident to sue Obama for his birth certificate? Or for destroying the dollar? Or for mortgaging the country? :-)
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Joseph M. Bruno, a New Orleans lawyer involved in the case, suggested that the plaintiffs and their lawyers hoped that Congress would resolve the conflict.
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“Nobody here is trying to make a windfall,†he said. “We’re just trying to get people back to where they were before Katrina.â€
:lmao: :lmao: :lmao: Ahh yes! An altruistic lawyer. Tell us Bruno, how much do YOU stand to pocket at TAXPAYER'S expense? I cought part of this story on the ABC evening news and they were interviewing some guy who said basically "I wants what I gots commin' to me from da' gubbment!" In his mindset it's inconceivable that the "Gubbment's money" is the TAXPAYER'S money. I guess he think's it's "Obama money".
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I'd like to be where I was in '07. Can the lawyer do that for me?
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Well taxpayers...take out your wallet.
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Family home for over 60 years lost in Gulfport, thanks to Katrina. Grew up loving NOLA. But not this NOLA. :banghead: Gonna keep my yap shut now.
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Guess that lets the levee board off the hook. I'll bet Nagin already filed on his own behalf. He's probably downtown tonight livin' it up !
That sucking sound you hear ain't the sewage running off Bourbon Street. It's everybody and their sister racing for a lawyer.
20 or more years from now N.O. will still be the same. Okay, trashier if that's possible.
What a stupid move.
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The leeve board should put up more statues and build more roads so the citizens can chose to not use them to leave NOLA........everyone deserves their own personal escape airplane/helicopter and resort home to fly to.