A&M’s Smith finds new home after Hurricane Katrina
Houston Chronicle - Wed Nov 25, 2:08 am ETThe more Hurricane Katrina zeroed in on his hometown in late August four years ago, the wider Lionel Smith’s eyes grew in a Houston hotel room.
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The more Hurricane Katrina zeroed in on his hometown in late August four years ago, the wider Lionel Smith’s eyes grew in a Houston hotel room.
A court ruling on damage from Hurricane Katrina could lead to billions of dollars in other legal action from storm victims, but it leaves regional leaders with a dilemma.
A major Hurricane Katrina flooding trial ended with a win for plaintiffs yesterday, as a federal judge ruled that the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers’ failure to properly maintain the Mississippi River Gulf Coast Outlet (known popularly as MRGO) was partly to blame for the flooding that followed the historic storm. Judge Stanwood R. Duval, [...]
A court ruling over Hurricane Katrina damage could lead to billions of dollars in other legal action, but it leaves leaders with a dilemma.
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.
A federal judge says the agency showed 'gross negligence' in the years before Katrina. The ruling could leave the government open to billions in claims. 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 ...
Nov. 19 (Bloomberg) -- Hurricane Katrina victims were awarded $719,698 in damages by a judge in a lawsuit claiming a canal dredged by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers from New Orleans to the Gulf of Mexico destroyed a natural barrier to a storm surge.
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers has made it no secret that its decisions regarding Dallas' ambitious plans to remake the Trinity River corridor with bridges, lakes and a toll road have been haunted by the ghosts of the victims of Hurricane Katrina .
The threat of being held responsible for Hurricane Katrina has made the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers especially cautious when reviewing levees.
A landmark court ruling blaming the Army Corps of Engineers' “monumental negligence” for some of the worst flooding from Hurricane Katrina could lead to a new deluge: billions of ...
Last week, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers was found guilty of gross negligence in its failure to protect Chalmette and the Lower 9th Ward of New Orleans from floodwaters during Hurricane Katrina.
A New Orleans man has pleaded guilty to a charge he fraudulently received more than $87,000 in federal grant money after Hurricane Katrina.
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.
A US judge has ruled that negligence by the US Army Corps of Engineers led to massive floods in parts of New Orleans as Hurricane Katrina struck in 2005. It was the first time a US court has found the federal government directly responsible for some of the damage caused by Hurricane Katrina.
A federal judge ruled Wednesday that the Army Corps of Engineers' failure to properly maintain a navigation channel led to Hurricane Katrina's massive flooding of the Gulf Coast in 2005.
A group of 12 Mississippi Gulf Coast homeowners is using a novel legal strategy to try to recoup losses suffered during Hurricane Katrina in 2005.