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By Christian Roselund

In a last minute legal battle to stop bulldozing of flood damaged properties in the lower ninth ward, lawyers from the Grassroots Legal Network and the Loyola Law Clinic won a temporary victory against a city administration which they was attempting to rush the process of home demolitions at a time when few residents were around to question what is happening. City inspectors have declared up to five thousand homes unsafe to enter in New Orleans, most of those in the city's lower ninth ward. Two thousand five hundred were scheduled to be destroyed after Christmas. Steve Bradbury of ACORN, a plaintiff in the case, says that while many of these homes are damaged beyond repair displaced homeowners are not being adequately informed.

[Bradbury] : "And it's problematic because there has not been a national notification that people can come home."

Lawyers with the Grassroots Legal Network, the legal team of aid organization People's Hurricane Relief Fund say they will attempt to work out a settlement with Mayor Ray Nagin's office.