May 20, 2024
A California attorney representing a public relations firm told a Michigan federal judge on Monday that she had nothing to do with the firm's campaign attacking a lawyer suing one of its clients connected to the Flint water crisis.
May 15, 2024
A water engineering company accused by the Michigan attorney general of prolonging Flint residents' lead exposure cannot move its eventual trial out of the region, a Michigan state judge ruled Wednesday, saying the company could not assume the entire jury pool was biased.
May 13, 2024
The Michigan federal judge overseeing Flint, Michigan, water crisis cases excoriated a water engineering firm and its PR agency for apparently running a smear campaign targeting a lawyer for Flint children, saying Monday she will sanction the firm if it doesn't turn over documents about the campaign by next week.
April 19, 2024
A proposed class of 45,000 Flint, Michigan, property owners, businesses and adult residents on Friday urged a Michigan federal court to give the go-ahead to a $25 million settlement with Veolia North America, the last remaining engineering defendant in sprawling litigation over the city's water crisis.
February 29, 2024
A Michigan federal judge on Thursday warned attorneys for a water engineering firm accused of prolonging lead exposure in the Flint water crisis not to waste her time by improperly withholding unprotected documents related to its public relations strategy around the case.
February 28, 2024
Michigan federal and state judges on Wednesday told the state to speed up its professional malpractice case against an engineering firm accused of prolonging the Flint water crisis, saying Michigan can't worry about whether it would look bad to go ahead before residents resolve their federal claims.
February 16, 2024
A Mayer Brown LLP partner representing Veolia North America, the water engineering firm facing negligence claims from children exposed to lead in Flint, Michigan, told a Michigan federal judge Friday that his team didn't know about Veolia's public relations campaign disparaging the children's counsel, a campaign the judge labeled a "disturbing development."
February 13, 2024
A Michigan federal judge on Tuesday tore into attorneys for a water engineering firm being sued for its alleged role in the Flint water crisis, warning them of severe repercussions if they are found to be involved in a campaign to disparage opposing counsel.
February 01, 2024
Flint residents and the last remaining engineering defendant in sprawling litigation over the city's water crisis announced Thursday they had reached a $25 million deal that would avoid an upcoming trial, with the engineering firm saying more than half of Flint residents will get a payout.
January 22, 2024
A Michigan federal judge said on Monday that Flint residents can show a jury data about young children's blood toxicity levels during the city's water crisis, even though the children are not part of the class in an upcoming trial accusing an engineering firm of prolonging residents' lead exposure.