Judge: Hotels Can’t Evict Evacuees for Mardi Gras
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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