Katrina victims file class action against FEMA News
Katrina victims file class action against FEMA

[JURIST] Attorneys acting on behalf of over a dozen Hurricane Katrina [JURIST news archive] disaster victims have filed a complaint [PDF text] seeking class action status against the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) [official website] and other government agencies. The lawsuit accuses FEMA of wrongfully denying the plaintiffs temporary housing and seeks declaratory and injunctive relief for the plaintiffs in the form of trailers or other housing for victims living in shelters as well as increased financial relief for families with more children than others. The complaint filed Thursday alleges that once President Bush declared a state of emergency in Louisiana [White House press staement], FEMA was required, not merely authorized, to provide temporary housing assistance to all elligible recipients under the federal Stafford Act [PDF text], and failed to do so. USA Today has more.

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UN General Assembly approves Palestine partition plan

The UN General Assembly approved UN Resolution Resolution 181 (II) on November 29, 1947, recommending that the British Mandate for Palestine be split into a Jewish state, an Arab state, and an international zone for Jerusalem. The vote in the assembly was 33 for to 13 against, with 10 abstentions. The resolution sparked a war between Palestinian Arabs and Jews in 1947 and a wider war after Egypt, Syria, Jordan, Iraq, and Lebanon invaded the new State of Israel in 1948. Read Resolution 181 (II).

UN divided Palestine between Arabs and Jews

On November 29, 1947, the UN General Assembly voted to partition Palestine into Jewish and Arab territories, leading to the establishment of a Jewish state the following year. Read UN General Assembly Resolution 181.

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