EPA loses key ruling as Flint residents pursue water claims
Source: Associated Press
EPA loses key ruling as Flint residents pursue water claims
By ED WHITE
September 10, 2022
DETROIT (AP) A judge blocked the Environmental Protection Agency from appealing a key ruling in a long-running lawsuit claiming negligence by the federal government in Flints lead-contaminated water in 2014-15.
U.S. District Judge Judith Levy ruled in 2020 that Flint residents could sue the EPA. Now, two years later, she said she wont put the case on hold to allow the government to appeal that decision to a higher court.
Levy said more work must be done by lawyers to develop the case.
The United States characterizes this complex case as one of merely a series of discrete, clean legal questions questions it says are all independently controlling, wrongly decided, and subject to reasonable disagreement, the judge said. But this is far from the case.
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