In re KATRINA CANAL BREACHES LITIGATION.
Norman Robinson; Kent Lattimore; Lattimore & Associates; Tanya Smith, Plaintiffs-Appellees-Cross-Appellants,
v.
United States of America, Defendant-Appellant-Cross-Appellee.
Monica Robinson, Plaintiff-Appellee-Cross-Appellant,
v.
United States of America, Defendant-Appellant-Cross-Appellee.
In re Katrina Canal Breaches Litigation.
In re Katrina Canal Breaches Litigation.
United States of America, on Behalf of United States Army Corps of Engineers, Petitioner.
United States Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit.https://leagle.com/images/logo.png
James M. Garner , John Thomas Balhoff, II , Ashley Gremillion Coker , Sher Garner Cahill Richter Klein & Hilbert, L.L.C., New Orleans, LA, for Rain CII Carbon, L.L.C., Universal Health Services, Inc., Amy Huey and Virginia Burdette, Chapter 7 Trustees of the Estate of Quintessa Huey and Caryn L. Fong, Certain Members of the MRGO Must Go Coalition, James Wilkins, Coalition to Restore Coastal Louisiana, Holy Cross Neighborhood Ass'n, Lower Ninth Ward Center for Sustainable Engagement and Development, MQVN Community Development Corp., Amici Curiae.
Decades ago, the Army Corps of Engineers (the "Corps") dredged the Mississippi River Gulf Outlet ("MRGO"), a shipping channel between New Orleans and the Gulf of Mexico, as well as levees alongside the channel and around the city. The Corps's negligence in maintaining the channel, grounded on a failure to appreciate certain hydrological risks, caused levees to fail and aggravated the effects of 2005's Hurricane Katrina on the city and...
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