Legal Opinion
In Re: Katrina Canal Breaches
Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit
Decided March 2, 2012No. 10-30249, 10-31054 and 11-30808PublishedCited by 6 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
JERRY E. SMITH, Circuit Judge:
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 its environs.
Claimants filed hundreds of lawsuits, many of which were consolidated before the district judge a quo. That court…
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