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NEW ORLEANS (AP) - An attorney defending the owners of a nursing home where 35 patients died after Hurricane Katrina argued for the right to present evidence that the government was responsible for the deaths.
James Cobb said in court papers filed Thursday that Salvador and Mabel Mangano couldn't have anticipated that levees would break and flood the area around St. Rita's nursing home in St. Bernard Parish.
"An engineering disaster, unknowable to them, left them vulnerable. The water came through no fault of the Manganos," Cobb wrote in a 21-page memo to Judge Jerome Winsberg.
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