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3 Aug 2007, 2:07 am
Associated Press, New Orleans Times-Picayune 08/02/2007 Read Article: New Orleans Times-Picayune [read post]
21 Oct 2009, 1:12 pm
  Levees broke, people died, clean water was not available, valuable property flooded, buildings were left hazardous and roads were destroyed. [read post]
5 Oct 2014, 8:05 am
Stray intellectualism: "For Barry, the battle for New Orleans’s survival would be fought along the Santayana-Hegel axis. [read post]
3 Aug 2007, 4:58 am
In the midst of a hurricane, three canals running through         the City of New Orleans overflowed their normal boundaries. [read post]
29 Aug 2012, 5:28 am by Jenna Greene
Stormy Weather: Hurricane Isaac drove water over the top of a levee on the outskirts of New Orleans on Wednesday, triggering life-threatening flooding seven years to the day after Hurricane Katrina, Reuters reports. [read post]
24 Oct 2011, 12:25 pm by Eugene Volokh
On a number of occasions, LSU administrators ordered van Heerden not to make public statements or testify regarding the cause of New Orleanslevee failures. [read post]
6 Aug 2007, 7:01 am
District Court ruling that insurance companies had to pay its policyholders' Katrina-related claims. [read post]
4 Mar 2015, 12:12 pm by Steven Boutwell
 The SLFPA-E filed the suit individually and as the Board governing the Orleans Levee District, the Lake Borgne Basin Levee District, and the East Jefferson Levee District, contending that it manages and is responsible for more than 150 miles of levees, 50 miles of floodwalls, and numerous drainage structures, pump stations, and floodgates in an area it described as the “Buffer Zone,” which includes coastal… [read post]
5 Dec 2009, 3:26 am by Dianne Saxe
In turn, these two factors caused the collapse of the Reach 2 levee, which led directly to the flooding of St. [read post]
17 Sep 2007, 6:13 am
"It's their job to make it clear.'' Sher's lawyers cite a ruling last November in New Orleans by U.S. [read post]
24 Jul 2007, 11:14 pm
Pou was not Foti's, but that of New Orleans District Attorney Eddie Jordan and the local grand jury, which was undoubtedly persuaded by the New Orleans coronor's report that earlier this year concluded that no compelling evidence of homocide existed. [read post]
18 Dec 2009, 2:10 am by Michael Payne
These are encouraging decisions for contractors performing hurricane protection projects in New Orleans. [read post]
27 Feb 2007, 10:18 pm
The Benoit Plaintiffs brought this action in the Civil District Court for the Parish of Orleans, State of Louisiana, alleging negligence against all of the defendants for their actions which allegedly contributed to the levee breach. [read post]
6 Feb 2009, 3:04 pm
”  In addition to the West Closure Complex project, the New Orleans District is proposing to employ ECI on a series of levee improvement projects on the Chalmette Loop Levee in St. [read post]
19 Feb 2008, 11:11 am
" The Fifth Circuit, of course, simply enforced the insurance policies as written, and noted that the word "flood" included a flood caused by the breach of the levees in New Orleans, reversing a district court that disingenuously held otherwise. [read post]
7 Apr 2008, 7:40 pm
Today, the Louisiana Supreme Court ruled that Lafayette Insurance is not obligated to pay for water damage from the failure of New Orleans area levees. [read post]