Army Corps of Engineers can be sued.

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http://www.nola.com/news/t-p/frontpage/index.ssf?/base/news-19/1170487761298180.xml&coll=1
http://www.sunherald.com/mld/sunherald/news/state/16613447.htm
2 articles, 1 from New Orleans, 1 from Biloxi papers. Both say the same thing.

(sun herald) NEW ORLEANS - Residents of the three areas flooded worst by Hurricane Katrina can sue the Army Corps of Engineers over claims that a poorly designed navigation channel caused catastrophic flooding during Hurricane Katrina, a federal judge ruled Friday.

The Corps of Engineers and federal government had argued they were immune from claims the Mississippi River-Gulf Outlet caused the damage to the Lower 9th Ward, eastern New Orleans and St. Bernard Parish.

But U.S. District Judge Stanwood Duval refused to throw out a suit claiming floods in those areas were caused by defects the Corps of Engineers had known about for decades....(more)

Judge: Corps can be sued over flood
MR-GO negligence case can proceed
Saturday, February 03, 2007
By Susan Finch

The Army Corps of Engineers can't assert immunity in a lawsuit over the catastrophic flooding following Hurricane Katrina, because of the plaintiffs' claim that flooding stemmed from the agency's negligence in fixing defects in the Mississippi River-Gulf Outlet navigation project that it had known of for years, a New Orleans federal court judge ruled Friday.

U.S. District Judge Stanwood Duval's ruling cleared the way for WDSU-TV anchorman Norman Robinson, a Lower 9th Ward couple and two St. Bernard Parish residents to press for trial of a lawsuit blaming Army Corps of Engineers negligence for the flooding that destroyed their homes in Hurricane Katrina.

The plaintiffs' legal team said the case could go to trial by early next year, after Duval rejected corps arguments that the case should be tossed out because federal law makes the agency immune from lawsuits over its flood control projects and policy decisions.

Duval said the suit brought by Robinson and his fellow plaintiffs targets not a flood control project but what it calls the corps' negligent failure to fix defects in a navigation project it built years ago, the 70-plus-mile-long Mississippi River-Gulf Outlet shipping channel. ...(more)

Well, lets see what happens next.