Michigan loses court case to stop home water deliveries due to lead

[Eugene]

Source: Reuters

Michigan must deliver bottled water or provide in-home filtration to all qualified residents in the city of Flint, where lead contamination sparked a public health crisis, a U.S. appellate panel ruled on Friday upholding a lower-court order.

The state argued that door-to-door deliveries to all Flint households exposed to lead-tainted tap water would be financially crippling and was unnecessary because bottled water was available to residents at government-run distribution sites, or by delivery upon request.

But a three-judge panel of the 6th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, in a 2-1 ruling, refused the state's plea to set aside the blanket water-delivery order imposed on Nov. 10 by U.S. District Judge David Lawson.

"Although there may be no known precedent for the door-to-door delivery of bottled water, there is also no precedent for the systematic infrastructure damage to a water delivery system that has caused thousands of people to be exposed to poisonous water," circuit judges Damon Keith and Bernice Donald wrote in Friday's opinion.

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Read more: http://www.reuters.com/article/us-michigan-water-idUSKBN146015

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U.S. | Fri Dec 16, 2016 | 8:06pm EST
By Timothy Mclaughlin

[llmart]

1. The Repukes in charge.....

don't want to spend money on the peons - they need it for themselves.

"Crooked Snyder" "Lock Him Up"

We also need to tie Schuette to him because we all know he's going to run for Governor and he's as crooked as Snyder.

[raging moderate]

2. Thank you, 6th US Circuit Court of Appeals!

Damon Keith, Bernice Donald, and everybody, may your hearts be blessed forever!

[christx30]

3. Nice that the judges are showing no sympathy toward the state.

"You idiots caused it. You owe this to your people." is what I'm reading out of that. GOOD!

[Cal Carpenter]

7. I just wish the specific idiots could be personally held accountable

and not the taxpayers of the state as a whole. The RWers in charge have fucked up Michigan good this time and our infrastructure is in shambles and the regular working people are the ones paying for it.

But as it is, Flint needs water and I am not begrudging this at all, please don't get me wrong.

I'll stop now before I devolve into "EAT THE RICH" rant mode

[Bradical79]

4. Good news

Snyder and his cronies are evil. Fighting in court to get out of making sure people get clean water in his state. That's fucked up.

[Maraya1969]

5. These horrible acts by all these republicans are creating really bad Karma for themselves. That is

my belief anyway. I know I lose it a lot but I really do try and watch my thoughts and my actions, (besides it being the right thing to do) because I don't want to create any more disasters in my life.

I also don't feel the misery that those character defects create, (like jealousy and greed - it creates a lot of pain!)

Don't know why I said this and I'm not trying to proselytize.

[quakerboy]

6. How about fix the problem

and then you dont have to deliver bottled water to anyone?