Trial ends in lawsuit against Corps, ruling could take weeks or months | wwltv.com
04:30 PM CDT on Thursday, May 14, 2009
Associated Press
A trial in a lawsuit blaming the Army Corps of Engineers for the flooding of eastern New Orleans, the Lower 9th Ward and St. Bernard Parish during Hurricane Katrina has ended after four weeks of testimony from a series of experts.
Now, U.S. District Judge Stanwood R. Duval Jr. will take the case under consideration and rule sometime in the coming weeks -- or months.
The lawsuit by five people and one business was the first major case against the federal government over flooding from Katrina. The fate of more than 120,000 other claims by individuals, businesses and government bodies hinge on Duval's ruling.
The suit claims that the Mississippi River-Gulf Outlet, a shipping channel the Army Corps dug in the late 1950s, led to the destruction of the natural environment southeast of New Orleans and the wipeout flooding during Katrina.
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