(August 23, 2018, 12:39 PM EDT) -- ANN ARBOR, Mich. — An employee of the state of Michigan who was named as a defendant in the litigation stemming from the lead-contaminated water crisis in the city of Flint on Aug. 21 filed a notice of appeal with the Sixth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals, contending that the district court wrongly denied his motion to dismiss (In re Flint Water Cases [Luke Waid, et al. v. Richard D. Snyder, et al.], No. 16-10444, E.D. Mich.)....