Where Accountability Failed, Liability Follows
Well it is about time and now it’s official. A Federal district judge, Stanwood Duval, has ruled that The United States Army Corps of Engineers was liable for the damages inflicted on at least three plaintiffs by its failure to mitigate the damage its construction and operation of the MR-GO channel caused to the wetlands and, ultimately to the Lower Ninth Ward and St. Bernard Parish on August 29, 2005.
