Barge owners off the hook

Much like the barge itself was that day.

In a ruling signed Thursday, U.S. District Judge Stanwood Duval, Jr., exonerated Lafarge North America, Inc., of negligence in a series of decisions made before and during the 2005 hurricane that plaintiffs had claimed caused two breaches in the eastern flood walls along the Inner-Harbor Navigation Canal, also called the Industrial Canal.

Update: Maybe the suit would have gone differently if the barge were full of formaldehyde.