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Judge: Hotels Can’t Evict Evacuees for Mardi Gras

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From Times Wire Reports

A federal judge in New Orleans ruled that evacuees from Hurricane Katrina who were still living in government-paid hotel rooms could stay there at government expense until the end of Mardi Gras.

U.S. District Judge Stanwood Duval gave the evacuees until March 1 to find housing so they would be guaranteed shelter through the Carnival season.

New Orleans hotel owners had been threatening to evict evacuees before Carnival next month.

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