Split Michigan High Court: Flint Residents' Claims Valid; Unique Injury Suffered

(July 31, 2020, 10:33 AM EDT) -- LANSING, Mich. — A divided Michigan Supreme Court on July 29 remanded a lawsuit brought by residents of Flint, Mich., ruling that they had sufficiently alleged a claim of inverse condemnation against the former governor and members of his administration related to the lead-contaminated water crisis in the city because the residents established that the defendants' actions were a substantial cause of the decline in the plaintiffs' property value and showed that they suffered a unique injury (Melissa Mays, et al. v. Governor of Michigan, et al., Nos. 157335-7, 157340-2, Mich. Sup., 2020 Mich. LEXIS 1351)....

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