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1 Feb 2011, 11:31 am
Last week, a New Orleans district judge ruled that 7 property owners' petition to enjoin the Army Corps of Engineers from proceeding with remediation work for the 17th Street Canal (reported on Levees.Org). [read post]
10 Nov 2005, 8:25 am
[JURIST] US Attorney for the Eastern District of Louisiana [official website] Jim Letten has announced that his office is conducting a criminal investigation into alleged corruption of individuals involved in the design, construction and maintenance of the flood barriers of the New Orleans levee system, which failed during Hurricane Katrina [JURIST news archive] and led to extensive flooding of [read post]
16 Aug 2007, 11:01 pm
Board Of Levee Commissioners of The Orleans Levee Dist. and State Of Louisiana, --- F.3d ----, 2007 WL 2079880 (5th Cir. [read post]
14 Feb 2015, 8:39 am by Walter Olson
[Associated Press; New Orleans Advocate; earlier here, here, here, here, etc.] [read post]
29 Mar 2012, 6:00 am by Andre Mouledoux
US District Judge Stanwood Duval of the United States District Court in New Orleans recently rendered a notable ruling that addressed a cause of substantial flooding in the city’s Lower Ninth Ward. [read post]
29 Mar 2012, 6:00 am by Andre Mouledoux
  US District Judge Stanwood Duval of the United States District Court in New Orleans recently rendered a notable ruling that addressed a cause of substantial flooding in the city’s Lower Ninth Ward. [read post]
7 Aug 2007, 10:04 am by Liskow & Lewis
Board of Commissioners of the Orleans Levee District, the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit reversed a grant of summary judgment in favor of plaintiffs on a takings claim. [read post]
1 Dec 2006, 2:11 pm
A Federal judge in the Eastern District of Louisiana held that cases against certain insurers could proceed to trial for whether the plaintiffs' homeowners insurers are responsible for flooding resulting from the New Orleans levee breaches. [read post]
6 Oct 2014, 12:39 pm
This lawsuit has since been removed to Federal Court in New Orleans, where the next ruling will determine whether Act 544 applies to the levee Authority. [read post]
30 Mar 2011, 11:45 am by Douglas Reiser
Edward Fleming, commander of the Corps’ New Orleans District. [read post]
8 Mar 2010, 1:33 pm by Steve Hall
Orleans Parish District Attorney Leon Cannizzaro will hold a news conference Monday afternoon at 2:30 p.m. outside his headquarters at 619 S. [read post]
8 Aug 2007, 2:37 pm
The Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals in New Orleans ruled Aug. 2, 2007, in In re Katrina Canal Breaches Litigation, No. 07-30119, that property owners in New Orleans whose buildings were flooded as a result of levee breaches in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina cannot recover losses from their insurance companies because of the flood exclusions in their insurance policies. [read post]
15 Jul 2008, 12:30 pm
 After the cases were consolidated, the Sewage and Water Board of New Orleans (SWB) removed the consolidated cases to federal district court. [read post]
25 Sep 2012, 8:40 am
As we all know, Hurricane Katrina caused extensive flood damage in New Orleans when the levees broke and left most of the city under several feet of flood waters. [read post]
5 Feb 2007, 1:38 pm
Duval Jr. of the Federal District Court for the Eastern District of Louisiana, cited previous cases saying that the channel was not a flood-control project. [read post]
2 Aug 2007, 1:43 pm
No one should be surprised that the United States Court of Appeals today reversed the decision of the Louisiana District Court on whether losses occasioned by rising water in New Orleans was the result of a "flood" and thus excluded from coverage under several different forms of "flood" exclusion. [read post]
2 Aug 2007, 1:43 pm
No one should be surprised that the United States Court of Appeals today reversed the decision of the Louisiana District Court on whether losses occasioned by rising water in New Orleans was the result of a "flood" and thus excluded from coverage under several different forms of "flood" exclusion. [read post]