Magistrate Orders Engineering Firm To Produce Documents In Flint Water Crisis Case

(April 23, 2024, 11:10 AM EDT) -- ANN ARBOR, Mich. — A federal magistrate judge in Michigan ruled April 22 that an engineering firm that is a defendant in litigation stemming from the lead-contaminated water crisis in Flint must provide 40 documents in response to a motion to compel compliance with a discovery order, saying that the judge presiding over the case has already determined that the work product doctrine does not protect the documents in question....