FLINT, MI (MPRN)-- A federal judge will allow a class action lawsuit in the Flint water crisis to move forward, but the suit has been stripped down.
U.S. District Judge Judith Levy ruled a class action lawsuit arising from the Flint water crisis will move forward against 21 defendants, but she dismissed Michigan Governor Rick Snyder from the litigation. In her 128-page opinion the judge says the plaintiffs did not show the governor was aware of potential health and safety risks posed by switching the city’s drinking water to the Flint River.
The judge also dismissed former DEQ director Dan Wyant, former Mayor Dayne Walling, state Health Department employee Nancy Peeler, and former Flint emergency manager Ed Kurtz as defendants.
The judge also knocked off several claims in the suit.
The class action lawsuit is seeking damages for tens of thousands of Flint residents exposed to tainted drinking water during the city’s water crisis.