Friday, May 17, 2019

The Flint Residents need to organize to bring their affidavits before the court.

Affidavits, including and evidence such as doctor records, hospital records and hospital bills. The pediatrician and the professor and his students need to provide affidavits as well. They should be asked to participate so the court knows how all this transpired and how a group of people from Virginia came to Flint.

May 17, 2019
By Beth LeBlanc

The Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals (click here) will not reconsider a request from Flint city officials who claim they should be immune from litigation related to a Flint water crisis lawsuit.

Several judges in support of denying the request said it would be inappropriate for the full appellate court to weigh in at this juncture in the case before Flint residents have had time to gather evidence to prove their claims.

A three-member panel from the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals ruled in January that Flint officials should not be dismissed from the case filed by Flint residents Shari Guertin and her child, Diogenes Muse-Cleveland, even though Republican former Gov. Rick Snyder and several state officials had been dismissed more than a year earlier.

Flint officials asked that the full Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals, not just the three-member panel, hear their arguments for dismissal, but the court denied the request Thursday in a decision that included concurrent and opposed opinions from judges on the court....