Smoking Gun

We went down to the Corps of Engineers office to review about 100 of their boxes with the hope of locating some items that had been referenced in deposition testimony which were not in the items produced by the government. We found several upstream inundation maps that clearly demonstrate as early as the year 2000 that the Corps studied exactly which upstream homes near the Addicks and Barker reservoirs would be flooded. We have not seen any indication that these maps were ever shared with the public.
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Co-Lead Counsel Armi Easterby said, “I have found several ‘smoking guns’ in my legal career, and these maps are some of the best I’ve seen. We are getting all of these maps copied this weekend, and will be using them and some depositions next week and at trial.”

The Federal Government filed a motion to stay the February trial several times and has been denied. Justice delayed is justice denied. We look forward to the upcoming trial and will be posting any updates.
Update: Due to the government shut down Judge Lettow has suspended the deadlines and case which means that once the shutdown ends the case will automatically come back online.

Armi said it best, “I’m disappointed but not discouraged — the Government may be shut down but Williams Hart isn’t. We’ll make good use of the extra time by making a strong case even stronger.”

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