(December 22, 2017, 7:57 AM EST) -- WASHINGTON, D.C. — A defendant in one of the lead-contaminated water crisis lawsuits regarding Flint, Mich., on Nov. 7 filed a petition for writ of certiorari with the U.S. Supreme Court seeking review of a Sixth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals decision that federal drinking water law did not preclude the initial lawsuit (Jeff Wright v. Melissa Mays, et al., No. 17-666, U.S. Sup.)....