November 01, 2023
A civil engineering company will pay $8 million to resolve claims it failed to warn Flint, Michigan, residents of likely lead contamination that triggered a drinking water crisis in the city, according to a proposed settlement filed in federal court.
October 23, 2023
Flint, Michigan, residents won't be able to introduce expert testimony about the effects of lead exposure on the cognitive development of fetuses in an upcoming issues class trial, the federal judge presiding over Flint water crisis litigation ruled Friday.
September 26, 2023
A Michigan federal judge overseeing the sprawling Flint water crisis litigation put some guardrails Tuesday around a trauma expert's testimony about the effects of the crisis on Flint residents' mental health ahead of an upcoming issues class trial.
September 15, 2023
A Michigan federal judge rejected engineering firm Veolia North America LLC's bid to bar some testimony by an environmental and natural resource economist from an anticipated issues-class trial over the Flint water crisis.
September 05, 2023
Amid the runup to a retrial over the Flint, Michigan, water crisis, embattled engineering firm Veolia North America LLC has asked a federal judge to bar further discovery into its public relations strategies — denying allegations that it tailored a media campaign to influence jurors in the initial bellwether trial last summer.
August 31, 2023
A Michigan federal judge on Thursday declined to intervene in a fee dispute between three former law partners, two of whom say the third has bilked them out of tens of thousands of dollars in proceeds from the Flint water crisis litigation.
August 28, 2023
Two attorneys asked a Michigan federal judge Friday to intervene and stop their former partner from making off with a $1 million fee in the Flint water crisis litigation, telling the court her efforts violate an agreement they reached when their firm split in 2017.
July 19, 2023
A Michigan federal judge said Wednesday that an engineering firm facing negligence claims for its alleged role in the Flint water crisis must share some of its communications with public relations firms, ruling the consultants were tasked with influencing public opinion rather than helping with litigation.
July 13, 2023
The state of Michigan is urging the judge presiding over Flint water crisis litigation to deny residents' request for $5 million in settlement funds to be set aside for the future litigation expenses, with the state saying the settlement "was never intended to be a litigation fund for plaintiffs' counsel."
July 07, 2023
An engineering firm that assisted Flint, Michigan, in its catastrophic attempt to change its drinking water supply has reached a confidential settlement in principle with a class of city residents and individual plaintiffs to resolve all federal and state negligence claims.