April 19, 2023
A Michigan federal judge on Wednesday cautioned attorneys for Veolia North America against challenging every expert a class of Flint residents intends to call in its upcoming trial about the city's water crisis, urging the engineering company's counsel not to repeat tactics that she said took up too much time last year.
March 21, 2023
A Michigan state judge has signed off on the historic $626 million settlement between Flint residents and government officials, marking the latest step in resolving sprawling litigation over lead contamination in the city's drinking water.
March 08, 2023
A Michigan federal judge on Wednesday declined to sanction attorneys and an expert for a class of Flint residents for allegedly spoiling evidence from pipes connected to the Flint water crisis, ruling the pipes were not destroyed by the expert's examination.
March 01, 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.
December 13, 2022
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."
October 27, 2022
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."
October 26, 2022
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.
April 15, 2022
A Michigan federal judge on Friday declined to disqualify an attorney representing a group of plaintiffs in litigation over the Flint, Michigan, water crisis, saying while he likely created a conflict of interest by representing both clients who approved of and objected to the settlement, it does not warrant tossing him from the case.
February 04, 2022
Lawyers representing Flint, Michigan, residents in litigation over the city's contaminated water will come away with more than $39.6 million in fees after reaching a $626 million settlement that will provide payments to thousands affected by the crisis, a Michigan federal judge ruled Friday.
December 02, 2021
The Sixth Circuit Court has affirmed a lower court's decision not to allow state court plaintiffs to intervene in the $626 million federal settlement over the Flint, Michigan, toxic water crisis.