(January 3, 2024, 1:17 PM EST) -- ANN ARBOR, Mich. — A federal judge in Michigan on Jan. 2 granted a motion to exclude one of the plaintiffs’ expert witnesses in the Flint water crisis litigation, ruling that in his analysis he “repeatedly deviated” from accepted methodology without providing adequate explanation for his choice to do so. As a result, the judge said the plaintiffs did not show that their expert’s testimony is reliable under Daubert v Merrell Dow Pharmaceuticals Inc....