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NEW ORLEANS (AP) - A federal judge has dismissed claims against the government in a wrongful death lawsuit filed by the families of three people who died in the immediate aftermath of Hurricane Katrina.
Ethel Mayo Freeman, 91, died in her wheelchair on Sept. 1, 2005, while waiting in the sweltering heat outside the Ernest N. Morial Convention Center for help to arrive in New Orleans.
Her son, Herbert Freeman Jr., sued the federal government, including Secretary of Homeland Security Michael Chertoff and then-FEMA director Michael Brown, accusing it of causing her death by negligence.
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