$700,000 seems like a paltry amount but it is the first victory for Katrina victims?.opening the ?floodgate? for a class action lawsuit that could reap tens of billions in federal bucks.
Four years after the hurricane ravaged New Orleans, while the rest of the country watched in shock, Judge Stanwood Duval has ruled that our federal government was indeed to blame for the flooding.
According to NewScientist, Judge Duval awarded the money to …
On November 18, 2009, Judge Stanwood R. Duval, Jr. of the U.S. District Court, Eastern District of Louisiana, issued a landmark ruling finding the Army Corps of Engineers’ negligent failure to maintain and operate the Mississippi River-Gulf Outlet (MRGO) properly was a substantial cause for the fatal breaching of the Reach 2 Levee and the subsequent catastrophic flooding of the St. Bernard Polder. If Judge Duval’s ruling is upheld on appeal, thousands of individuals and entities whose property was damaged or destroyed, or who suffered personal injury, in St. Bernard Polder and the Lower 9th Ward, could be eligible for compensation from the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers.
Parker Waichman Alonso LLP, together with Becnel Law Firm, L.L.C, Salas, L.C. and Lambert and Nelson, P.L.C., is investigating claims on behalf of Hurricane …
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