(April 10, 2024, 12:38 PM EDT) -- DETROIT — The plaintiffs in litigation seeking $722.4 million under the Federal Tort Claims Act (FTCA) related to the Flint water crisis on April 9 filed an opposition brief in Michigan federal court arguing that the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s renewed motion to dismiss the lawsuit should be denied on grounds that granting it would “completely eviscerate the goals of the FTCA” and because the United States has waived its sovereign immunity from suit for injury caused by negligent or wrongful acts of government employees if a private person would be liable for those actions....