[CPEO-BIF] Agriculture Street landfill, New Orleans

[Lenny Siegel <lennysiegel@gmail.com>]

Court upholds dump housing payout
Agriculture Street landfill site used

By David Hammer
New Orleans Times-Picayune
July 1, 2008

It was nearly 15 years coming, but a ruling by the Louisiana Supreme 
Court handed a legal victory to thousands who sued the city of New 
Orleans, its public housing authority and its school board for putting 
their homes and school on a toxic waste dump without warning them.

Now a second painstaking process begins as at least 8,000 people who 
lived or worked atop the closed Agriculture Street landfill wait to 
collect what could amount to hundreds of millions of dollars in damages.

In 2006, Civil District Court Judge Nadine Ramsey ruled the city and its 
affiliated agencies engaged in "shocking" behavior when they developed 
federally subsidized homes for struggling families and built Moton 
Elementary on top of the old city dump. The Louisiana Supreme Court 
upheld that ruling Friday in a 5-2 vote.

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For the entire article, see
http://www.nola.com/news/t-p/frontpage/index.ssf?/base/news-11/1214890235123810.xml&coll=1

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
a project of the Pacific Studies Center
278-A Hope St., Mountain View, CA 94041
Voice: 650/961-8918 or 650/969-1545
Fax: 650/961-8918
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