February 11, 2022
The first civil trial over the Flint water crisis begins Tuesday in Michigan, where a federal jury will weigh claims that two water engineering companies neglected their duty to urgently warn that pipe corrosion could send lead into homes.
February 07, 2022
A Flint, Michigan, water engineering contractor was duty-bound to sound the alarm before the city's lead-contaminated drinking water crisis, but a bellwether trial next week will decide whether it actually met that obligation, a Michigan judge said Monday in denying the firm a quick exit.
January 11, 2022
An engineering company must face claims it didn't do enough to protect Flint residents from lead exposure after it was hired by the city to study its drinking water, a Michigan federal judge said, partially rejecting the company's bid for a win ahead of the first bellwether trial beginning next month.
October 14, 2020
The federal government wants a chance to immediately appeal a Michigan federal judge's order deciding that the government isn't immune from allegations it acted negligently during the Flint, Michigan, lead water crisis.
October 07, 2020
Thousands of Flint residents on Wednesday accused JPMorgan Chase, Wells Fargo and Stifel Nicolaus & Co. of playing an integral role in the city's water crisis, claiming in a new suit that the investment banks underwrote a municipal bond sale that led to the city switching its water supply.
August 26, 2020
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency isn't immune from claims it acted negligently during the lead-poisoning crisis in Flint, Michigan, that started after the city switched drinking water systems in 2014, a federal judge ruled Wednesday.