The US Supreme court declined Tuesday to hear Flint, Michigan, officials’ appeal of a federal court’s decision in favor of Flint Water Crisis residents.
This refusal will allow the earlier decisions that held the city accountable to stand. In May, a federal appeals court upheld a 2017 federal district court’s decision that the city violated the constitutional bodily autonomy rights of its own citizens through allowing water containing lead and bacterial to enter the drinking water supply. The federal courts denied the city’s sovereign immunity.
