Judge demands answers on Katrina housing
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A federal judge called the Bush administration's handling of a Hurricane Katrina housing program "a legal disaster" Wednesday and ordered officials to explain a computer system that can neither precisely count evacuees nor provide reasons why they were denied aid.
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Two nursing home owners who were arrested after 34 of their patients died in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina are suing the government, saying federal, state and local officials failed to keep residents safe and evacuate vulnerable citizens as the storm approached.
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The government is squandering tens of millions of dollars in Hurricane Katrina disaster help, in some cases doling out housing payments to people living rent-free, investigators said  yesterday.
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Judges tell an asylum seeker who says Swansea is violent and racist he must live there if he wants a council home.
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The judge in the Kobe Bryant sexual assault case said Tuesday he would question some jurors in open court about their opinions in the case
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A federal judge in Ohio has ruled against a longstanding foreclosure practice, potentially creating an obstacle for lenders trying to reclaim properties from troubled borrowers and raising questions about the legal standing of investors in mortgage securities pools.
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The judge who sent Paris Hilton to  jail called a hearing for Friday on why the hotel heiress was  released early and placed under house arrest in a move swiftly  challenged by prosecutors and local politicians.
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A survey taken the weekend before Hurricane Katrina struck showed that more than half of the homes questioned had decided against evacuating. But a jury hearing the case against the owners of a home where 35 patients died in Katrina's floods may never see the document.
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CHALMETTE, Louisiana  - The owners of a New Orleans-area nursing home where 35 people drowned in one of the worst tragedies of Hurricane Katrina pleaded not guilty on Wednesday to multiple charges of negligent homicide and cruelty to the infirm.
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By CAIN BURDEAU  NEW ORLEANS - A group of residents whose neighborhood was flooded during Hurricane Katrina added a lawsuit Thursday to the mounting case against the Army Corps of Engineers, saying the agency knew flood walls were unstable.
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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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New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin on Thursday urged the Bush administration to speed aid to Hurricane Katrina victims, suggesting the government was not meeting its legal obligations to help the city recover.
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It was a $100 million mistake, and a federal judge said Friday he doesn't have the power to fix it.
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In November, a judge gave hope to homeowners trying to collect insurance money for flood damage caused by Hurricane Katrina. Now, that decision is under scrutiny.
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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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By Phil Fairbanks  The judge overseeing the seven-year saga known as Hickory Woods is frustrated by delays in the case and now wants a "global settlement" of all the issues surrounding the contaminated neighborhood.
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A civil rights group has asked a judge to order the U.S. government to turn over information about the deaths of detainees at the Guantanamo Bay prison.