Joe Bruno on Appeals Panel Flip-Flip: This is Politics Not Law
Joe Bruno, agreed to an interview request today with Levees.org after getting out of federal court in New Orleans where he was representing flood survivors in a suit against the Army Corps of Engineers and Washington Group International. We wanted to know Mr. Bruno’s take on a recent appeals panel’s reversal of its own ruling […]
Levees.org to Speak to Visitors from Iraq in State Dept Program
Today, Sandy Rosenthal, founder of Levees.org will speak to a group of six visitors from Iraq who will be studying the U.S. Political Process. The visitors are invited to the United States under the auspices of the Department of State’s International Visitor Leadership Program. The participants include the legal advisor to the Iraqi Republican Gathering […]
Army Corps of Engineers’ Suppression of Public Comments
Today, we learned that the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers has banned the receipt of all public comments submitted through the widely used advocacy system called Convio. While Levees.org uses SalsaLabs, a different system, we are still appalled at this suppression of public comments. We applaud the National Wildlife Federation for calling on the Corps […]
