[StBernard] Judge refuses to dismiss, feds, Corps from flood suit

[Westley Annis]

NEW ORLEANS (AP) - A federal judge in New Orleans has refused to throw out a
lawsuit against the Army Corps of Engineers alleging that a controversial
navigation channel caused catastrophic flooding during Hurricane Katrina.

U.S. District Judge Stanwood Duval rejected government arguments that the
Corps and the federal government are immune from legal claims that that the
Mississippi River-Gulf Outlet caused catastrophic damage to the Lower 9th
Ward, eastern New Orleans and St. Bernard Parish due to defects that the
Corps had known about for decades.