Hurricane Katrina

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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...
  10 hours ago

• 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 ...
  12 hours ago

• Elation In New Orleans Over Katrina Ruling

  
  NewsOne — Authority: 613
  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 ...
  13 hours ago

• 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: 126
  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 ...
  21 hours ago

• 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 ...
  23 hours ago

• In New Orleans, Elation Over Katrina Liability Ruling

  
  NYT > Theater — Authority: 916
  “We’re glad we finally got a federal judge to agree with us,” said Robert Green Sr., a resident.
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• Ahem.

  
  TJs Things — Authority: 128
  Monumental Negligence What’s that I hear in the background? CA-CHIIING!! If this ruling stands (and it just might), there will be much more than water flooding out of New Orleans. A Federal Judge ruled that the federal government’s failure to maintain the levees caused so much of the destruction that has yet ...
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• US government facing huge compensation bill over Hurrican Katrina flooding

  
  Family: News and advice on family matters children and parents — Authority: 977
  The US government faces billions of dollars in compensation claims after a federal judge ruled that the Army Corps of Engineers failure to properly maintain a navigation channel led to massive flooding in Hurricane Katrina.
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• Odds and ends for 11/19

  
  Blog on the Run: Reloaded — Authority: 436
  Good news, bad news: The good news: The S&P 500 is sitting on a ton of cash . The bad news: The cash came from being overleveraged and from failure to invest in existing business and/or growth, which will lead to bad future news on both revenues and employment. It’s OK if you’re a Republican: The Obama ...
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• Katrina Ruling Could Cost Govt Billions

  
  Strange Fruit — Authority: 135
  I guess they better warm up those printing presses... The federal government could be vulnerable to billions of dollars in claims after a judge ruled that the Army Corps of Engineers failure to properly maintain a navigation channel led to massive flooding in Hurricane Katrina. U.S. District Judge Stanwood Duval ...
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• Court: Army Corp of Engineers liable for Katrina Flooding

  
  Let's Talk Honestly — Authority: 131
  The Army Corps of Engineers’ failure to properly maintain a shipping channel linking New Orleans, Louisiana, to the Gulf of Mexico led to catastrophic flooding during Hurricane Katrina, a federal court ruled Wednesday. Read more here: http://www.letstalkhonestly.com/blacknewsblackviews.html
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• Katrina victims win flooding damages

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 986
  Ruling opens the door to further claims from up to 100,000 more victims with settlements that could cost billions The US government faces billions of dollars in compensation claims from victims of Hurricane Katrina after a federal judge found that negligence on the part of the Army Corps of Engineers was directly ...
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• U.S. Judge Finds Army Engineers Liable for Katrina Damage

  
  Truthdig: Drilling Beneath the Headlines — Authority: 729
  More than four years after Hurricane Katrina devastated New Orleans, a federal judge has ruled in favor of four plaintiffs from the vicinity of the city’s 9th Ward, finding that the Army Corps of Engineers was responsible for some of the damage incurred by the storm and awarding each plaintiff more than $700,000. ...
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• Can “The Yes Men Fix the World”?

  
  Blog Obispo — Authority: 139
  Two pranksters set their sights on big business in “The Yes Men Fix the World”Who are the Yes Men?Are they troublemakers? Rebels? Renegades? Or are they unsung heroes to the millions of oppressed people who lack a voice of their own?Andy Bichlbaum and Mike Bonanno are the Yes Men, two merry pranksters who ...
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• A Hurricane Of Class Action Lawsuits

  
  Understanding Government — Authority: 437
  The federal government could be liable up to an unbelievable $500 billion, reports the New York Times’ Campbell Robertson, after Federal Judge Stanwood R. Duval ruled that the Army Corps of Engineers did not maintain a navigation channel, leading to Hurricane Katrina flooding. The ruling is in response to a ...
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• Tale of Two Deltas

  
  California Greening — Authority: 127
  When I first started to closely follow the water issues surrounding the California Delta, one of the first items I read was by Dr. Jeffrey Mount of U.C. Davis Center for Watershed Studies. (Various stories are around. In this one on MSNBC Dr. Mount makes the point.) Yesterday, a Federal Judge put a large portion ...
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• Court Rules Katrina Damage Due To MR-GO Channel

  
  A Blog For All — Authority: 510
  The US government is going to be on the hook for billions based on a court ruling that came down finding that the flooding in vast portions of New Orleans was the result of the Army Corps of Engineers negligently maintaining Mississippi River-Gulf Outlet (MR-GO), a navigation channel. U.S. District Judge Stanwood ...
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• Judge Finds Government At Fault For Levees Breaking During Katrina

  
  NewsOne — Authority: 613
  From The L.A. Times In a ruling that could leave the government open to billions of dollars in claims from Hurricane Katrina victims, a federal judge said late Wednesday that the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers had displayed “gross negligence” in failing to maintain a navigation channel — resulting in levee ...
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