Judge orders FEMA to immediately restore aid to Katrina victims

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Judge tells FEMA to restore aid
The agency is ordered to immediately resume housing payments to victims of Katrina.
By Nicole Gaouette and Ann M. Simmons, Times Staff Writers
November 30, 2006

WASHINGTON — Condemning the bureaucracy at the Federal Emergency Management Agency as "Kafkaesque," a federal judge Wednesday ordered the government to immediately resume housing payments to Gulf Coast residents who lost their homes to Hurricane Katrina.

Barely six months after Katrina ravaged the region, FEMA began ending payments to several thousand families still in temporary housing and unable to return to their homes.

U.S. District Judge Richard J. Leon said the agency had violated the evacuees' rights by not adequately explaining why it was ending the benefits, making it difficult for storm victims to appeal the decisions.

"It is unfortunate, if not incredible, that FEMA and its counsel could not devise a sufficient notice system to spare these beleaguered evacuees the added burden of federal litigation to vindicate their constitutional rights," he wrote.

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[KoKo]

1. Kick! Good to see some judges finally standing up for "The People"

against these Crooks. If only we had more that weren't RW'ers from the Bushie/Reagan years. But, thankful for the few we have.

[malaise]

2. Bushco and the goons are history

The backlash for these cruel and inhumane tyrants cometh.