(March 22, 2019, 1:31 PM EDT) -- GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. — A Michigan appellate panel on March 14 affirmed a lower court’s decision to deny a motion to dismiss a lawsuit against employees of the state of Michigan related to the lead-contaminated water crisis in the city of Flint, concluding that the defendants’ argument that there was insufficient evidence on proximate cause was “without merit” (Tamara Nappier v. Governor Rick Snyder, et al., No. 344363, Mich. App., 2019 Mich. App. LEXIS 472)....