Hurricane Katrina

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• Hurricane Katrina Lawsuit Results in Damages Against Army Corps

  
  AboutLawsuits.com — Authority: 553
  A federal judge ruled last week in favor of residents from New Orlean’s Lower 9th Ward and St. Bernard Parish over the Army Corps of Engineers’ maintenance of the city’s levees, potentially exposing the government to liability in a number of Hurricane Katrina lawsuits. U.S. District Judge Stanwood R. Duval, ...
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• What The Corridor Can Learn From New Orleans

  
  POPULAR PROGRESSIVE — Authority: 117
  When Hurricane Katrina unleashed its fury, it was largely blamed for the monumental damage that followed in New Orleans and its neighbors. Further evidence showed that the failure of the levees were to blame and that the Army Corp of Engineers who manage those levees failed to upgrade them despite reports that ...
  11 hours ago

• Hurricane Katrina & Flood Narratives at SBL

  
  pisteuomen : ?????????? - the weblog of t. michael w. halcomb — Authority: 519
  Ive been to four meetings of the Society of Biblical Literature and in those 4 years, Ive sat in a lot of sessions and have listened to a lot of scholarly papers. Never, though, have I been to a session like the one I attended tonight! Kudos to Boston Universitys Jennifer Knust for getting SBL to show one of the ...
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• New Orleans Mayor Praises Katrina Liability Ruling

  
  NewsOne — Authority: 638
  From CNN: Calling the ruling “huge,” New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin on Thursday reacted to a federal judge finding the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers’ failure to maintain a shipping channel led to catastrophic flooding during Hurricane Katrina. Nagin said he hopes the court decision will “open up the ...
  20 hours ago

• Sunday Open Thread: Katrina Edition

  
  Big Government — Authority: 812
  Who knew that this was the beginning of government health care in this country? We may never fully appreciate the full costs of Hurricane Katrina.
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• Why do Americans who live near Niagra falls have flat foreheads and big ears? Every morning they wake up “F**k – what’s that noise – Oooh slap Niagra Falls.”

  
  Funny Emails — Authority: 144
  WASHINGTON – Despite the wall-to-wall coverage of the damage from Hurricane Katrina, nearly one-third of young Americans recently polled couldn’t locate Louisiana on a map and nearly half were unable to identify Mississippi.Americans between the ages of 18 and 24 fared even worse with foreign locations: six in 10 ...
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• Beauty Salon- 12 Tips They Don’t Want You To Know

  
  Wish Everyone Good Health. — Authority: 510
  Hair Care Professional- Breaking One InBeauty Salon- It is so important for us to find the right beauty salon so that we can have the right look at the right time. However, there are certain things that beauty salon owners don’t want you to know.According to the September 13, 2005 issue of the LA Times, [...]
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• The Neediest Cases: After Katrina, Struggle for High Ground

  
  NYT > Theater — Authority: 916
  Jennifer Hero and her son, Wells, in the living room of their home in Park Slope, Brooklyn.
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• Hurricane Katrina & Environmental Consciousness

  
  Silenced Majority Portal — Authority: 445
  It was pleasing to find that quite a number of New Orleans merchants were avoiding the use of plastic bags after having seen what happened after Hurricane Katrina. There had been documentary footage of countless plastic bags up in the...
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• Louisiana Purchase Landrieu Blames ABC Report of $100 Million Buyoff on Very Partisan Republican Bloggers

  
  Jeff Poor's blog — Authority: 675
  Whats $100 million of taxpayer money between a few U.S. Senators? After reports surfaced of $100 million for Louisiana was added to the Senates health care reform legislation, originally from ABC News , and subsequently commented upon by prominent lefties, like U.S. News and World Reports Bonnie Erbe as my ...
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• Screaming Time Writer Tells Maddow It Was Army Corps of Engineers Who Killed 1,000 During Katrina

  
  NewsBusters.org - Exposing Liberal Media Bias — Authority: 833
  You could call it progress in media bias. For years, liberal journalists have blamed Team Bush for the death of hundreds in Hurricane Katrina. The major media found that theme of fatal incompetence simply irresistible. Time’s Michael Grunwald, who has written in-depth articles and a book about the Army Corps of ...
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• Court Rules US Army Corps Helped Caused Hurricane Katrina Flooding

  
  Daily Contributor — Authority: 553
  A federal court ruled Friday, November 20, that the negligence of the US Army Corps of Engineers resulted to the failure of levees to stop flooding brought about by hurricane Katrina in 2005. US District Judge Stanwood Duval wrote on his ruling, “The Corps’ lassitude and failure to fulfill its duties ...
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• BREAKING NEWS – Bossier moves for Judgment as a Matter of Law or New Trial

  
  slabbed — Authority: 478
  Pursuant to Rule 50, Fed. R. Civ. P ., Plaintiff moves for judgment as a matter of law on all issues concerning contract damages on the grounds that the jury did not have a legally sufficient evidentiary basis to find in favor of Defendant…. The law is clear that when considering a Rule 50 motion, “the Court ...
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• Sandra Bullock attends special New Orleans premiere of The Blind Side

  
  VIP Chain Blog — Authority: 134
  Sandra Bullock appeared at a special charity premiere in New Orleans for her latest movie The Blind Side. The football-themed film premiered at an event that also raised money for a high school that was flooded during Hurricane Katrina in 2005. Bullock said: “We’re investing in a lot of things that we think need ...
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• New Orleans: Inside the Convention Center & Remembering Katrina

  
  Silenced Majority Portal — Authority: 445
  “I always wondered why somebody didn’t do something about that. Then I realized I was somebody.”- Lily Tomlin Just had lunch out on the balcony of the blocks-long Morial Convention Center in New Orleans. I could see right up close...
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• Trouble the Water

  
  Feminist Review — Authority: 510
  Directed by Tia Lessin and Carl Deal Zeitgeist Films If you missed the exhaustively, deservedly lauded Trouble the Water in theaters last year, now you can catch it on the small screen. Nominated for an Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature (it lost to Man on Wire ), Trouble the Water follows ...
  3 days ago

• Elation In New Orleans Over Katrina Ruling

  
  NewsOne — Authority: 638
  From NYTimes.com: NEW ORLEANS — 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 ...
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• Judge Says Government is Responsible For Katrina

  
  Bossip.com — Authority: 675
  There is no doubt that Hurricane Katrina was a storm of colossal proportions, a rarity even in the current climate of super-charged storm fronts, but it is the ruling of a judge that has given a target for all of those effected by the damage left in its wake. In a monumental ruling, U.S. District Judge Stanwood R. ...
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• The Real Crime of Katrina

  
  (d)N0t Dream Not Of Today a gonzo blog covering policy, technology and punk rock from San Francisco, California. — Authority: 127
  It’s very difficult to calculate exactly how incompetent and negligent our government is, but US District Judge Stanwood R. Duvall thinks he has the answer: $719,000 . That is the amount he awarded a small group of Hurricane Katrina flood victims last Wednesday who sued the Army Corps Of Engineers, citing its ...
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• Army Corps Of Engineers Is Responsible

  
  jobsanger — Authority: 148
  For years now, the Army Corps of Engineers has denied any responsibility for the flooding and damage caused in New Orleans during and immediately after Hurricane Katrina. Its going to be much harder for them to claim that now, because a federal judge has disagreed. U.S. District Judge Stanwood R. Duval has issued ...
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