(January 12, 2017, 11:52 AM EST) -- DETROIT — Employees with the Michigan Department of Environmental Quality (MDEQ) on Dec. 30 filed a brief in Michigan federal court, contending that the plaintiffs who sued them for injuries connected to the lead-contaminated water crisis in Flint, Mich., “fail to recognize that the MDEQ Defendants rely primarily on constitutional grounds in support of their request to change venue” and that those rights “trump statutory law” (Myia McMillian, et al. v. Governor Richard D. Snyder, et al., No. 16-10796, E.D. Mich.)....