Tuesday, March 6, 2007

New Orleans Lawsuit

Cnn.com featured a story over the weekend about a $77 billion lawsuit filed by the city of New Orleans against the Army Corps of Engineers. Apparently only $1 billion of the amount sought is for quantifiable infrastructure damages caused by levee breaches. Mayor Ray Nagin gave the following reason for asking for an additional $76 billion...

The city "looked at everything and just kind of piled it on. We got some advice from some attorneys to be aggressive with the number, and we'll see what happens."

http://www.cnn.com/2007/US/03/03/katrina.claim.ap/index.html

Even people in New Orleans should be outraged at the mayor and their city for trying to take advantage of a bad situation by asking for such a huge amount of money to which they clearly are not entitled.

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