Posted on 08/28/2006 9:36:21 AM PDT by Ellesu
Levee Litigation Group Launches Campaign to Advise Victims of Hurricane Katrina to Protect their Legal Rights to Make Claims against the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers – Time to File Claims Running
Group to Hold Press Conference on the Steps of Federal District Court in New Orleans on Tuesday, August, 29, 2006 at 10:00 a.m.
New Orleans, August 28, 2006 – The Levee Litigation Group (www.leveelaw.com) announces that it has launched a campaign to encourage victims of Hurricane Katrina who lived in Orleans Parish, Jefferson Parish, St. Bernard Parish and Plaquemines Parish to protect their legal rights against the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (U.S. Government) as well as the related contractors, engineers and subcontractors by immediately filing Standard Form 95. This form is required for Katrina victims who wish to make a Federal Torts Claims Act against the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. Hurricane victims can obtain more information and download a copy of Standard Form 95 and get mailing instructions by visiting www.leveelaw.com.
Joe Bruno, Esq. on behalf of the Levee Litigation Group will hold a press conference on the steps of Federal District Court in New Orleans, located at 500 Poydras Street, New Orleans, LA 70130, on Tuesday, August 29, 2006 at 10:00 a.m., to discuss its plans to file suit against the Army Corps of Engineers on behalf of Hurricane Katrina victims.
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I don't see how they will be able to do this. I'm sure I've heard time and time again that ACOE told NOLA that the levees wouldn't hold more than a Cat 3 hurricane.
OTOH, I heard on Clear Channel this a.m. that one year's insurance in NOLA is now $10,000.
yeah, get all you can from those evil taxpayers from all over America!/s
This could be interesting. I wonder what will happen when the testimony turns to the huge differences between what the Corp was told was being built versus what the local governing bodies and contractors actually built.
The Army Corps of Engineers did not divert the money intended to strengthen and maintain the levees for forty or more years; the local RATS did!
Wonder why there's no official fed investigation as to where / who / what happened to the billions over the years that NOLA received to strengthen the levees?
I used to work for the Corp of Engineers, Mississippi Valley Division. I have been privy to many a video-teleconfrerence where the New Orleans District was all but begging the Division for levee and flood control money. The Division would do what it could but when extra money was needed, the Dems, in Washington and locally, screamed that their pet projects, mostly envronmental, would have to have their budgets cut.
Wetlands, waterfowl habitat, and silver shad got much more discussion and political attention that the levees of NO. The NO District DID NOT like this but their voice was drowned out by heavy-hitting environmentalists that pretty much keep the Corps in constant litigation.
My wholehearted comments were sarcastically directed at the status quo of state and federal government and the spend spend spend mentality of the Libs ' RIHNOS / DemRats.
Katrina was a bad storm and no one's fault. The lack of common sense and lack of fiscal prudence of the government(s)' is the real tragedy.
I don't see using flow control at Old River as a long term means to prevent the Atchafalaya River from capturing the Mississippi. It's gonna happen whenever there's another 500 year flood in that general area.
Then comes the question of what exactly is going to happen to the hydrology of NOLA? Will the city sink even faster? Of course I won't be around to see it.
I understand the Mississippi has been controlled for some time by the Corps, (and has done a exceptional job making the river more predictable and safer to live near) however, as you know from the past big floods along the Mississippi, huge amounts of silt stopped getting deposited in the delta. So now Mother Nature, regardless how hard we try control things, always finds a way to do her thing.
Scum-sucking-tort-lawyer alert...
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