{"id":2459,"date":"2018-04-23T15:03:45","date_gmt":"2018-04-23T19:03:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost:10028\/whitepapers\/judge-state-doesnt-have-to-resume-bottled-water-in-flint\/"},"modified":"2022-06-27T02:26:37","modified_gmt":"2022-06-27T06:26:37","slug":"judge-state-doesnt-have-to-resume-bottled-water-in-flint","status":"publish","type":"whitepapers","link":"https:\/\/napolilaw.lemonadestand.org\/en\/whitepapers\/judge-state-doesnt-have-to-resume-bottled-water-in-flint\/","title":{"rendered":"Judge: State Doesn&#8217;t Have to Resume Bottled Water in Flint"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A federal judge won&#8217;t force the state to immediately resume giving out bottled water to <a href=\"\/practice-areas\/environmental-litigation\/flint-michigan\/\">Flint<\/a> residents affected by the city&#8217;s lead-tainted tap water crisis.<\/p>\n<p>Following the hearing, <a href=\"\/napoli-attorney\/hunter-shkolnik\/\">Hunter Shkolnik<\/a>, the plaintiff&#8217;s lead attorney, said he felt that the judge had looked at the facts and determined that Bryant may not be &#8220;the right plaintiff&#8221; to request the injunction.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;But there are a lot of other people [in Flint] that have homes that have lead levels that are hundreds of times higher than they should be,&#8221; Shkolnik said. &#8220;What&#8217;s important is that those plaintiffs can come back to court and bring a request for a temporary restraining order or a temporary injunction at that time.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Shkolnik said that a lot of people in Flint don&#8217;t trust the filters that the state has provided.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A federal judge won&#8217;t force the state to immediately resume giving out bottled water to Flint residents affected by the city&#8217;s lead-tainted tap water crisis. Following the hearing, Hunter Shkolnik,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"menu_order":419,"template":"","whitepaper_category":[57,66],"whitepaper-source":[222],"class_list":["post-2459","whitepapers","type-whitepapers","status-publish","hentry","whitepaper_category-hunter-shkolnik","whitepaper_category-flint-water-crisis","whitepaper-source-michigan-radio"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/napolilaw.lemonadestand.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/whitepapers\/2459","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/napolilaw.lemonadestand.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/whitepapers"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/napolilaw.lemonadestand.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/whitepapers"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/napolilaw.lemonadestand.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/whitepapers\/2459\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/napolilaw.lemonadestand.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2459"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"whitepaper_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/napolilaw.lemonadestand.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/whitepaper_category?post=2459"},{"taxonomy":"whitepaper-source","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/napolilaw.lemonadestand.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/whitepaper-source?post=2459"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}