Government Being Held Responsible For Katrina

In the New York Times on Thursday there was an article about a court case ruling that occurred on Wednesday. "A federal judge found that poor maintenance of a major navigation channel by the Army Corps of Engineers led to some of the worst flooding after Hurricane Katrine." If this ruling is upheld then the government could be forced to pay tens of millions of dollars to homeowners whose property was damaged from the Mississippi River-Gulf Outlet known as MR-GO.
Here are two links to the articles that I read from the New York Times:
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/19/us/19orleans.html?_r=1&sq=katrina&st=cse&adxnnl=1&scp=2&adxnnlx=1258761780-WYRV8lRtzps2N3+31mFpfg
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/20/us/20orleans.html?scp=4&sq=katrina&st=cse

I thought that these two articles came at a perfect time for class because we are about to get into this topic. I think that this ruling is a definite step forward for the people that lost so much because of Katrina. I think you guys should check out the articles if you have the time because they have some cool illustrations that show what happened and kinda what went wrong at least from one side of the issue. I think that the government should help these people out because a lot of them lost EVERYTHING. But like it said in the article the government is probably going to appeal the ruling so nothing is concrete yet. But the fact that one judge ruled in favor of the homeowners gives them a fighting chance and also brings the issue to the headlines again. This should be interesting to see where this goes and what the result ends up being in the long run.