Partner Cary McGehee Quoted in Law360 on EPA's Motion to Delay Flint Water Crisis Litigation

Founding Partner Cary McGehee discussed the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) motion seeking to delay litigation in the Flint Water Crisis in Law360. The EPA filed for permission to appeal a Michigan federal court’s immunity ruling to the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals. The EPA’s motion aims to address whether the EPA is immune from claims due to its discretionary functions in responding to the water crisis. 

Cary, representing the plaintiffs, called the EPA's motion just another delay tactic, highlighting that the residents of Flint are ready for trial.  

“The EPA has tried three times to convince two federal judges that sovereign immunity applies to this case, and each time the judges have ruled that the EPA is not immune from liability for its failure to act and failure to warn during the  Flint Water Crisis.

[The EPA] failed the people of Flint in its fundamental responsibility and mission to protect human health and the environment and in its 'so-called' commitment to making equity, environmental justice, and civil rights a centerpiece of the agency's mission," Cary said 

The case remains one of the last legal actions stemming from the Flint Water Crisis, with civil settlements already reached with state and local governments. 

Read more about the latest developments here: https://www.law360.com/articles/2357995/epa-seeks-to-appeal-flint-water-crisis-immunity-ruling