Corps' operation of MR-GO doomed homes in St. Bernard, Lower 9th Ward, judge rules

"In a groundbreaking decision, a federal judge ruled late Wednesday that the Army Corps of Engineers' mismanagement of maintenance at the Mississippi River-Gulf Outlet was directly responsible for flood damage in St. Bernard Parish and the Lower 9th Ward after Hurricane Katrina."

From http://www.nola.com/hurricane/index.ssf/2009/11/post_16.html