Flint Bellwether Plaintiffs: Defendant’s Duty Argument Is Not ‘Persuasive’

Mealey's (November 23, 2021, 2:12 PM EST) -- ANN ARBOR, Mich. — Bellwether plaintiffs in one of the Flint water crisis cases on Nov. 19 filed a brief in Michigan federal court arguing that a defendant’s supplemental brief supporting summary judgment “evidences a shifting defense” and the brief “lacks the substance to render” the defendant’s positions that engineers involved in the Flint water crisis did not owe a duty to the plaintiffs any more persuasive....