February 18, 2021
A pair of judges on Thursday slammed the conduct of an attorney who sent information "rife with material misrepresentations" to 298 residents of Flint, Michigan, that urged them to opt out of a $641 million proposed settlement related to the city's lead water crisis, ordering him to draft a corrective letter.
February 08, 2021
A Michigan federal judge on Monday ordered an attorney to stop "improper" communications pushing Flint, Michigan, residents to opt out of a $641 million settlement related to Flint's lead water crisis.
February 04, 2021
Plaintiffs' attorneys who recently won preliminary approval of a $641 million settlement with the state of Michigan over the Flint lead water crisis are asking a federal judge to stop an attorney from sending residents an allegedly misleading letter that pushes them to opt out of the agreement.
January 21, 2021
A Michigan federal judge on Thursday preliminarily approved a $641 million settlement with the state in litigation over the Flint water crisis that will provide compensation for minors exposed to lead-tainted water, adults without attorneys and others.
January 08, 2021
Engineering firms accused of contributing to the Flint, Michigan, water crisis on Friday fought class certification for tens of thousands of city residents, arguing it's impossible to establish common concerns in a population that large.
August 02, 2018
A Michigan federal judge has dismissed claims against the state of Michigan, Gov. Rick Snyder and others from a proposed class action alleging the largely black city of Flint, Michigan, wasn't treated as well as a neighboring, mostly white county during a lead-tainted drinking water crisis.
April 05, 2018
A Michigan federal judge on Thursday denied an engineering firm's effort to escape a proposed class action alleging the largely black city of Flint, Michigan, wasn't treated as well as a neighboring, mostly white county during a lead-tainted drinking water crisis.
October 03, 2017
Residents and business owners in Flint, Michigan, have launched a consolidated proposed class action in Michigan federal court against the state's governor, other public officials and private contractors over the city's water crisis, saying that they weren't treated the same as white residents in a neighboring county.