Immunity: Michigan Governor and State/Local Officials are Subject to Tort Liability for their Flint Water Actions
Mays v. Governor, no. 157335 (Mi. July 29, 2020). In a 4-2 opinion affirming the courts below, the Michigan Supreme Court declined to dismiss a class action for inverse condemnation and bodily harm against former Michigan Governor Rick Snyder and other state and local officials for their actions which resulted in toxic water from the Flint River being supplied to Flint residents, causing a major health crisis, damage to residential water systems and a precipitous drop in property values. For more than...