Legal Opinion
Mich. Dep't of Envtl. Quality v. City of Flint
District Court, E.D. Michigan
Decided October 17, 2017No. Civil Case Number 17–12107PublishedCited by 2 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
DAVID M. LAWSON, United States District Judge
"There are risks and costs to action. But they are far less than the long-range risks of comfortable inaction."-John F. Kennedy
The problems that the City of Flint has encountered with operating its water system over the past several years have been grave and well-documented. See Boler v. Earley , 865 F.3d 391, 397 (6th Cir. 2017) (outlining the catastrophe that resulted when Flint changed water sources from the Detroit system to the Flint River, and holding that the plaintiffs' tort claims for damages caused by drinking contaminated Flint water…
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