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Corps' MR-GO claims should be settled, and fast, attorneys say
~Mark Schleifstein
~Winning Attorney Pierce O'Donnell said the Obama administration has two choices in responding to Duval's Wednesday ruling.
"The Justice Department could continue the scorched earth policies of the prior administration and stonewall the people of New Orleans and St. Bernard Parish for years to come," O'Donnell said. "We've been in court for four years, and if the Corps of Engineers exercises its threat, they'll go to the Supreme Court of the United States and literally continue this litigation for years to come. Or the new president and his Justice Department can honor (Obama's) campaign promise and his recent promise in New Orleans to do the right thing by the people of New Orleans and St. Bernard Parish," he said.
"It's time that we stopped litigating and we started negotiating."

"insouciance, myopia and shortsightedness"
~Your Right Hand Thief

Chalmatians and 9th Warders have their day in court ~NOLA-dishu

How the judgement against the Corps of Engineers in NOLA affects you ~Levees.org

Katrina 'Blame Game' May be Over for New Orleans
~Carol Forsloff
~Editilla Crow'tellas: Don't Bet Your Life On It!~
I have something to say about the "Blame Game" as it relates to Responsibility, Culpability and just plain old Ability --none of which seems in evidence even still at the Corps of Engineers as they prepare their Next Crime, to wit: Appeal this Settlement to the US Supreme Court. What abject Perp Cowardice!
To appeal this case to the Supreme Court is absolutely Criminal.
But that is not what worries me the most here.
We call it the "Poor Meme" Game, to wit: Blame New Orleans for sticking it to the Poor American Taxpayer AGAIN --and after aaalll the billion$ we already gave'em!
Yessir'ya'betcha! Just as plain as Lipstick on a Pig, I see it already happening coast to coast in comments sections, in articles and editorials starting to come out. As if just compensation in a Defective Product Liability Case is a Government Entitlement, misguided citizens seem to see only the Pay-Out as a Hand-Out --and not WHO made this Deadly Toy named MR-GO...
--and, just as important, How they did it.
Soooo, many Taxpayers have begun now to Harp on another supposed Hand Out for New Orleans. But, we need to ReFocus their attention back onto the Criminal Toy Makers, as over half the nation lives in counties with Corps of Engineers Toy Levees.
Blame Games are why we have Courts. Entitlements are why we have Politicians. The idea that this ruling "opens up the American Taxpayer to another pay-out for New Olreans" is wrong.
But we can scratch that broken record. We can and will correct this new Katrina Shorthand: MR-GO Settlement as a Hand-Out. We must ReFrame the Nation's Story back onto the Corps Failed Engineering, and away from a misunderestimated view of the Settlement of that Defective Product Liability as a Hand-Out of Government Largess rather than Survivors' Just Recompense.

Effects of judge's Katrina ruling could mean huge change in how levees are designed nationwide
~LA Times