NEW ORLEANS, April 16 (UPI) -- U.S. law has given the Army Corps of Engineers, "a bureaucratic behemoth," legal immunity for its flawed work in New Orleans, a federal judge said.
In an opinion handed down Friday, U.S. District Judge Stanwood Duval blamed the agency for much of the flooding in the city during Hurricane Katrina, the (New Orleans) Times-Picayune reported Tuesday. Duval, who has been handling "this hydra-like 'Katrina Umbrella' litigation" for eight years said this might be his last ruling.