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Case history

  • Jan. 4, 2019
    decided Decision issued in Shari Guertin v. State of Mich.

Opinions and writings

Opinion By Richard Allen Griffin Jan. 4, 2019

RECOMMENDED FOR FULL-TEXT PUBLICATION Pursuant to Sixth Circuit I.O.P. 32.1(b) File Name: 19a0003p.06 UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE SIXTH CIRCUIT SHARI GUERTIN, individually and as next friend of her ┐ child, E.B., a minor; DIOGENES MUSE-CLEVELAND, │ Plaintiffs-Appellees, │…

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Lead opinion Author not recorded Jan. 4, 2019

GRIFFIN, Circuit Judge. *915This case arises out of the infamous government-created environmental disaster commonly known as the Flint Water Crisis. As a cost-saving measure until a new water authority was to become operational, public officials switched the City of Flint municipal water supply from the Detroit Water and Sewerage Department (DW…

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Concurrence in part Author not recorded Jan. 4, 2019

McKEAGUE, Circuit Judge, concurring in part and dissenting in part. The majority tells a story of intentional poisoning based on a grossly exaggerated version of plaintiffs' allegations. The complaint tells an entirely different story. It is a story of a series of discrete and discretionary decisions made by a variety of policy and regulatory officials who were acting on the best information avai…

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