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  1. July 18, 2023

    7 Trials To Watch In The Second Half Of 2023

    Former President Donald Trump and fallen crypto mogul Sam Bankman-Fried are among the high-profile criminal defendants who could face juries in the second half of 2023, which will also feature bellwether trials over tainted water and allegedly harmful weed killer.

  2. May 05, 2023

    350 Adult Residents Cut From EPA Flint Water Suit

    A federal judge slashed the claims of 350 residents of Flint, Michigan, who are seeking damages related to the city's water crisis from the EPA, ruling they failed to provide the agency proper notice of their individual allegations.

  3. March 01, 2023

    Michigan Cases To Watch In 2023

    The Michigan Supreme Court this year could determine the fate of voter-approved minimum wage and paid sick leave laws, affecting every single employer in the state, along with the future of slip-and-fall litigation in one of the snowiest parts of the country.

  4. February 23, 2023

    Adult Flint Residents Urge Judge To Preserve Water Claims

    The 350 adult Flint, Michigan, residents suing the U.S. government over its alleged bungling of the drinking water crisis there urged a federal court to reject the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's "haphazard" bid for dismissal, saying they clearly identified both adults and children in administrative claims.

  5. December 22, 2022

    The Biggest Environmental Law Decisions Of 2022

    The U.S. Supreme Court broke important ground in 2022 with a long-awaited decision limiting the federal government's power to regulate greenhouse gases from power plants, a jury in Michigan failed to decide whether public officials were liable for a lead-contaminated drinking water crisis, and a federal appeals court upheld the Biden administration's authority to craft greenhouse gas cost metrics.

  6. December 13, 2022

    Veolia Doc Delay Is 'Insult To The Court,' Flint Residents Say

    Engineering company Veolia North America has failed to produce documents about an alleged digital ad campaign targeting potential jurors in the bellwether Flint water crisis trial, Flint resident plaintiffs have claimed, calling Veolia's evasiveness "an insult to the court."

  7. December 13, 2022

    Engineering Co. Settles To Avoid Second Flint Trial

    An engineering company that assisted Flint, Michigan, in an ill-fated attempt to change its drinking water supply has settled with plaintiffs who were planning to go ahead with a second trial after the jurors in the first one were unable to reach a verdict.

  8. December 12, 2022

    US Looks To Drop Adult Flint Residents' Water Claims

    The U.S. government on Monday asked a Michigan federal judge to dismiss the claims of 350 adult Flint residents alleging regulators mismanaged the Flint drinking water crisis, arguing the plaintiffs had exhausted administrative remedies for their children, but not for themselves. 

  9. October 27, 2022

    Sanctions Bid In Flint Water Suit Denied As 'Nonsensical'

    A Michigan federal judge has declined to sanction an attorney representing children at trial over the Flint, Michigan, water crisis, saying Veolia North America's claim that the attorney violated professional conduct rules when he made certain statements to the media was "creative but nonsensical."

  10. October 26, 2022

    Veolia Exec To Be Deposed Over Alleged Flint Juror Targeting

    A Veolia North America LLC communications executive must be deposed in the wake of allegations that the company geotargeted the jury pool for last summer's Flint water bellwether trial with ads for its VeoliaFlintFacts website, a judge ordered Wednesday.