Judge gives Katrina flood victims hope
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A federal judge has ruled that thousands of homeowners flooded after Hurricane Katrina can move forward with their attempts to seek compensation from insurers, a ruling that runs counter to a previous federal court decision.
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By RUKMINI CALLIMACHI NEW ORLEANS - Water is unforgiving to the dead and by the time the crews arrived, the men were missing their eyes.
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A seven-member jury was chosen Monday in the first trial for one of the several thousand lawsuits that Louisiana homeowners filed against their insurers in federal court after Hurricane Katrina.
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A judge ruled Wednesday that a hospital can remove a car accident victim from life support against his family's wishes, an official said.
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An appearance by Corey Miller at a Hurricane Katrina documentary premiere in New Orleans has led a judge to put the rapper on full home confinement until his second trial on a second-degree murder charge.
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In denouncing the way the Bush administration has denied aid to tens of thousands of victims of hurricanes Katrina and Rita, a federal judge in Washington last week pulled back the curtain on a deeper mystery 15 months after the nation's costliest natural disaster:
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Prosecutors investigating a police shooting that occurred days after Hurricane Katrina created a "mess" by compelling three officers to testify before the grand jury that later indicted them, a judge presiding over the case said Friday.
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For the second time in eight days, a judge ordered the Bush administration to immediately resume making housing payments to thousands of families whose homes were damaged by Hurricane Katrina.
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A judge has ordered the Bush administration to restore housing-relief payments it revoked in a "Kafkaesque" process for thousands of Gulf Coast residents displaced by hurricanes Katrina and Rita.
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The owners of St. Rita's Nursing Home, where 35 people died in the flooding that followed Hurricane Katrina, pleaded not guilty Wednesday to charges of negligent homicide and cruelty to the infirm.
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A judge upset by the backlog of cases since Hurricane Katrina decided to release four New Orleans inmates from jail Friday and postpone their trials until they can get adequate representation from the spread-thin public defender's office.
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The trial of two nursing home owners charged with negligent homicide in the deaths of 35 patients after Hurricane Katrina will probably be held outside of St. Bernard Parish.
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NEW ORLEANS, Oct. 6 -- A judge upset by a backlog of cases decided to release four New Orleans inmates from jail Friday and postpone their trials until they can get adequate representation from the spread-thin public defender's office.
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A federal judge dismissed a class-action lawsuit against the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers over levee breaches after Hurricane Katrina
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Thousands of Pakistanis braved the rain here Sunday to cheer the country&#39;s top judge, keeping the pressure on President Pervez Musharraf to end a crisis over the chief justice&#39;s ouster.
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BAYOU LA BATRE, Ala. -- Search crews in boats resumed looking Thursday for the bodies of four young children while a judge denied bond for their father, who is accused of throwing them from an 80-foot coastal bridge.
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Louisiana Gov. Kathleen Babineaux Blanco went to New Orleans last August to oversee the opening of the city's first housing-assistance center aimed at people whose homes were destroyed or damaged by Hurricane Katrina. "This is not just a real estate transaction, but an emotional transaction as we...