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A&M’s Smith finds new home after Hurricane Katrina

Houston Chronicle - Wed Nov 25, 2:08 am ET

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.

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Utilities sued for Katrina damage
The Clarion-Ledger - Sat Nov 21, 3:55 am ET
A group of 12 Mississippi Gulf Coast homeowners is using an unusual legal strategy to try to recoup losses suffered during Hurricane Katrina in 2005.
Judge: Negligence Caused Katrina Flooding
CBS 13 Sacramento - Wed Nov 18, 11:04 pm ET
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. U.S. District Judge Stanwood Duval sided with five residents and one business who argued the Army Corps' shoddy oversight of the Mississippi River-Gulf Outlet led to the flooding of New Orleans' Lower Ninth Ward ...
POLL: Americans say hurricanes more dangerous than ever
ABC Action News Tampa Bay - Mon Nov 23, 3:22 pm ET
More than four years after Hurricane Katrina , most Americans remain convinced that hurricanes pose a greater threat to human life than in the past.
In landmark ruling, judge says Corps' negligence caused Katrina flooding
WWL-TV, Channel 4 New Orleans - Wed Nov 18, 8:59 pm ET
NEW ORLEANS -- A federal court judge has ruled in favor of several plaintiffs in a case deciding whether the Mississippi River Gulf Coast Outlet is in part to blame for the flooding that followed Hurricane Katrina. Judge Stanwood R. Duval, Jr awarded over $719,000 to four different sets of plaintiffs who alleged that the MRGO, a 76-mile manmade waterway that allowed vessels to quickly get from ...
Katrina ruling could bring new deluge of lawsuits
AP via Yahoo! News - Thu Nov 19, 6:06 pm ET
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 dollars in legal action from thousands of storm victims.
Prepare your vehicle for a hurricane evacuation
Today's News-Herald - Tue Nov 24, 12:28 pm ET
(ARA) - Ana, Bill, Claudette - the first three Atlantic Ocean hurricanes of the season made headlines, but not to the extent of Katrina or Ike of recent years. And while these three hurricanes have come and gone, who knows if - or when - Grace or Henry might pay a visit to your town?
Hurricane Katrina victims win case against US government
EARTHtimes.org - Thu Nov 19, 2:29 am ET
Washington - A federal judge has awarded 720,000 dollars in damages to several victims of Hurricane Katrina, in an apparent precedent-setting ruling against the US Army Corps of Engineers. US District Judge Stanwood R Duval Jrfound in favour of four ...
Taking steps to make Louisiana homes more hurricane-resistant: An editorial
New Orleans Times-Picayune - Mon Nov 23, 7:12 am ET
Tens of thousands of metro New Orleans residents who have rebuilt or repaired their homes since Hurricane Katrina have sought to improve their chances during future storms by raising their structures or by making them more resistant to strong wind.
Court Affirms Class-action Lawsuit for Former N.O. Public School Employees
Black Press USA - Tue Nov 24, 10:46 am ET
NEW ORLEANS (NNPA) - Eleven months after New Orleans Civil District Court Judge Ethel Simms-Julien certified a class-action lawsuit filed on behalf of more than 8,500 former employees of Orleans Parish Public Schools who were terminated after the State of Louisiana seized control of more than 100 public schools in the wake of Hurricane Katrina, the Louisiana Fourth Circuit Court of Appeal has ...
2 sentenced for Katrina fraud
KPLC Lake Charles - Thu Nov 26, 11:40 am ET
Associated Press - November 26, 2009 11:34 AM ET BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) - Two Louisiana women have been sentenced for engaging in separate schemes to fraudulently obtain federal disaster...
DMR sinks ship to create artificial reef habitat
The Biloxi Sun Herald - Thu Nov 26, 11:10 pm ET
BILOXI — The Mississippi Department of Marine Resources, in partnership with Mississippi Gulf Fishing Banks, this week sunk a retired fishing vessel donated by Omega Protein Inc. to be used as an artificial reef habitat.
Katrina Ruling Could Lead To Class-Action Lawsuit
NPR - Thu Nov 19, 4:24 pm ET
A federal judge ruled that the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers was responsible for some of the flooding during Hurricane Katrina, and ordered the government to pay more than $700,000 to five plaintiffs. Mark Schleifstein, a reporter at the New Orleans Times-Picayune , says of the 470,000 people who filed claims, about 100,000 are in the two areas where this lawsuit appears to have set a precedent ...
Hurricane Katrina Victims Compensated, Court Indicts US Army
INO News - Thu Nov 19, 5:10 am ET
(RTTNews) - A US federal court has held the US Army Corps of Engineers responsible for massive flooding in an area of New Orleans as Hurricane Katrina struck in 2005.
Court blames Army Corps for Katrina floods
The Washington Times - Fri Nov 20, 6:08 am ET
NEW ORLEANS (AP) | 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 dollars in legal action from thousands of storm victims. The federal judge's harshly worded decision also served as vindication for residents of St. Bernard Parish and the Lower 9th Ward in New ...
Attorney Joe Bruno can practice in state court again
New Orleans Times-Picayune - Sat Nov 21, 5:12 pm ET
High-profile attorney Joe Bruno made headlines as far away as Italy and Germany on Wednesday when a federal judge ruled in favor of a claim he filed on behalf of three New Orleans-area plaintiffs blaming the Army Corps of Engineers' mismanagement of maintenance at the Mississippi River-Gulf Outlet for directly causing flood damage after Hurricane Katrina in St. Bernard Parish and the Lower 9th ...