the Congress passed the Flood Control Act of 1928, thereby creating the Mississippi River & Tributaries System under the direction of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. Those engineers, charged ...

Judgment in favor of United States reversed and judgment for California ordered; immunity of United States, under Flood Control Act, from breach of contract claim for damages arising from joint ...

Congress passed the Jones-Reid Flood Control Act of 1928, which federalized flood protection along the Mississippi and its tributaries, with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers overseeing such efforts.

It resulted in the Flood Control Act of 1928 and the widespread migration of African Americans, many of whom were sharecroppers, to Chicago and other Northern cities. Morrison organizes his ...

The judge's decision reportedly relies on the Flood Control Act of 1928, which was passed after the Mississippi floods of 1927. The Act granted immunity to the federal government when levees and ...

A lot of people had very vivid memories of that flood.” The disaster led to the Flood Control Act of 1928, which strengthened flood-prevention efforts along the Mississippi River and its ...

The U.S. Government responded that the 1928 Federal Flood Control Act grants immunity to the federal government for damages due to flood waters. Since the canal is part of an area-wide water ...

In a decision issued yesterday, United States District Judge Stanwood R. Duval, Jr. dismissed the consolidated class action lawsuit against the United States Army Corps of Engineers for the ...

A federal judge threw out a key class-action lawsuit Wednesday against the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers over levee breaches after Hurricane Katrina, saying that the agency failed to protect the ...