Government:  Interlocutory Appeal Of Flint Ruling Needed; Legal Issues ‘Rare’

Mealey's (December 7, 2020, 7:11 AM EST) -- ANN ARBOR, Mich. — The U.S. government on Nov. 19 filed a reply brief in Michigan federal court contending it should grant a motion for interlocutory appeal of a court order denying the government’s motion to dismiss a Flint water crisis lawsuit. The government says that the legal issues confronted in the order were “rare and with little to no precedent” (Leeanne Walters v. Flint and Aasiyah Meeks v. United States, No. 17-10164 [consolidated], E.D. Mich.)....