MRGO: Judge finds Army Corps of Engineers at fault

In a federal tort claims act case U.S. District Judge Stanwood Duval has found the United States liable for the Army's failure to properly maintain the navigation canal known as the Mississippi River Gulf Outlet, contributing to the flooding of New Orleans when Hurricane Katrina struck:

It is the Court's opinion that the negligence of the Corps, in this instance by failing to maintain the MRGO properly, was not policy, but insouciance, myopia and shortsightedness. ... The Corps had an opportunity to take a myriad of actions to alleviate this deterioration or rehabilitate this deterioration and failed to do so. Clearly the expression "talk is cheap" applies here.

A news account on the Jurist site and link to the opinion can be found HERE.