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  • FEMA taken to court over hotel evictions, apartment issues

    12/08/2005 4:00:43 PM PST · by caryatid · 27 replies · 882+ views
    WWLTV.com ^ | December 8, 2005
    Evacuees hoping to preserve a government program providing hotel rooms to those displaced by Hurricane Katrina have their day in court on Friday, when a federal judge hears an array of complaints against the Federal Emergency Management Agency. In addition to hearing claims that Katrina victims face unfair and premature eviction from hotels, Judge Stanwood Duval will hear testimony and arguments that FEMA has wrongfully denied rental assistance to some evacuees. "We plan on calling three victims, at least two of whom are about to be evicted from hotels," said Howard Godnick, an attorney for evacuees, who is seeking to...