High Court Urged To Pull Flint Water Row From State Court

By Kat Sieniuc (March 17, 2017, 8:46 PM EDT) -- Two engineering firms have asked the Supreme Court to review a Sixth Circuit decision holding that lawsuits brought against them by Flint, Michigan, residents over the city's water contamination crisis could go ahead in state court under the local controversy exception to the Class Action Fairness Act, saying it loosens class action pleading standards in direct conflict with six other circuit courts....

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