Katrina Victims: Justice is Coming

“At last count, more than 1.6 million images of hard-copy pages had been produced to the plaintiffs and other Katrina litigants. More than 15 terabytes of electronically stored information had been produced, the equivalent of 912 million pages of information. On the basis of this production, the litigation can be described as the largest ever in which the United States has been involved.”

 An example of an “accidental truth”?

Imagine that!

The federal government admittedly causes the worst engineering—and human—disaster in American history, and when sued by over 400,000 victims, its lawyers complain that the litigation is “the largest ever in which the United States has been involved.”

Now, should it come as a surprise that legitimate victim claims running into the hundreds of billions of dollars spawned the mother of all lawsuits against the perpetrator?

No, but we must savor such an accidental truth by government officials. It is as rare as a steroid-free major league baseball player.