November 02, 2022
The city of Flint, Michigan, has botched the recordkeeping required to comply with a settlement agreement to replace lead service lines and once again missed its deadline to investigate water lines to thousands of residents' homes, civil rights and environmental groups have told a Michigan federal judge.
October 14, 2020
A federal judge said Flint, Michigan, isn't complying with a settlement agreement to find and replace potentially toxic water lines and can't rely on incomplete paperwork to determine where to replace lines, forcing the city to take action in two neighborhoods it wanted to mostly skip.
September 22, 2020
The city of Flint, Michigan, has told a federal court that it's complying with a settlement agreement to find and replace potentially toxic water lines, and that civil rights and environmental groups have wrongly alleged the city isn't living up to its promises.
September 08, 2020
The city of Flint, Michigan, has failed to find and replace potentially toxic water lines as it promised and court intervention is necessary ahead of a fast-approaching deadline laid out in a three-year-old settlement, civil rights and environmental groups have told a Michigan federal court.
March 27, 2017
The state of Michigan has agreed to pay $87 million to enable the city of Flint to replace water lines over the next three years for up to 18,000 households dealing with the city's lead contamination crisis, according to a proposed settlement agreement filed Monday in Michigan federal court.
December 05, 2016
A Michigan federal judge on Friday denied a request by state officials to end an order forcing the state to provide residents of Flint suffering from lead-tainted drinking water with bottled water or an assurance their faucet had a filtration system properly installed.
November 17, 2016
Michigan state officials on Thursday asked a federal judge to stay an injunction requiring them to deliver bottled water to Flint residents coping with lead-tainted drinking water until its appeal of the order is completed.
November 10, 2016
A Michigan federal judge on Thursday ordered the city of Flint to deliver bottled water to residents dealing with lead-tainted drinking water and its effects, saying problems with the current water distribution program warranted court intervention.
September 08, 2016
The city of Flint, Michigan, on Thursday asked a federal judge not to require the city to deliver bottled water to residents who have had to deal with lead-tainted drinking water and its effects, saying door-to-door delivery is an unnecessary measure that could hinder progress on permanent fixes to the water system.
July 08, 2016
A Michigan federal judge on Thursday refused to dismiss a lawsuit seeking to force fixes to Flint's water system in the wake of its lead contamination crises, ruling the case doesn't conflict with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's jurisdiction.