Flint Water Crisis: City to Get $28 Million in State Aid
Gov. Rick Snyder tweeted his appreciation. “Thank you to the Michigan Senate for taking action & for their unanimous support for the people of Flint.
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As Flint Tainted-Water Crisis Deepens, Michigan Governor Bucks Calls to Resign
It’s “Katrina II,” and he says he’ll fix it. Michigan’s Gov. Rick Snyder is taking (some of) the blame for the lead-contaminated drinking water that has led to brain damage and other health risks in children in parts of the urban community.
U.S. Top Court Rules Against Advertising Firm in Class Action Case
WASHINGTON The U.S. Supreme Court on Wednesday ruled against advertising firm Campbell-Ewald in a class action case, saying the lawsuit can proceed over claims the company violated a federal consumer law by sending unsolicited text messages on behalf of the U.S. Navy. In a 6-3 decision, the court upheld a ruling by the San Francisco-based 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals rejecting Detroit- …
Home Care Startup “Honor” Is Moving All Its Contract Workers to W2 Status, Giving Them Equity
Honor uses software to connect in-home health care to families who need it. It isn’t ad-based. It isn’t for millennials.
Paramount Pictures — Parking PAs Sue … You Grossed Billions but We Had to Crap in Our Cars!!!
A group of production assistants are going after behemoth Paramount, claiming they were forced to take dumps in their cars while working on some of the studio’s highest-grossing blockbusters. The class action lawsuit was filed by 4 NYC based P.A.s, who say they began working for the studio in 2010 and put in mega hours for films like ‘TMNT,’ ‘Wolf of Wall Street,’ “Noah,” and “Transformers: …
Case Seeking Cancer Screenings for Smokers Heads to Trial
BOSTON (AP) — A decade after a group of smokers from Massachusetts sued Philip Morris USA to try to force the cigarette maker to pay for lung cancer screenings, the case will finally be heard by a jury. Smokers in the class-action lawsuit allege Philip Morris manufactured a defective cigarette knowing it could have made a safer product with fewer carcinogens. The closely watched case heads to …
Supreme Court Turns Down Red-Light Camera Case
Follow CBSMIAMI.COM: Facebook | Twitter TALLAHASSEE (CBSMiami/NSF) – The Florida Supreme Court this week declined to hear an appeal in a potentially far-reaching case about the way local governments administer red-light camera programs. The City of Hollywood asked justices to hear the case after the 4th District Court of Appeal ruled in October that the city violated state law by relying on a …
DEQ: Flint Water Fix Should Have Come by 2014
Buy Photo Director Keith Creagh said staffers should have insisted on applying corrosion controls two years ago. (Photo: Steve Perez / The Detroit News)Buy Photo Even with the state’s faulty interpretation of federal law, Michigan environmental officials should have moved to install corrosion controls in Flint’s water system no later than December 2014, when tests first revealed dangerous lead …
Freeport Outlook Dims as Oil Drop Compounds Debt Woes
Phoenix-based mining giant Freeport-McMoRan has endured a riches-to-rags turnaround. Things might stay depressed for a while longer. Freeport-McMoRan(Photo: Courtesy of Freeport-McMoRan)
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Who Poisoned Flint, Michigan?
Mom moved my two sisters and me to the appropriately named town of Flushing on the outskirts of Flint, Michigan, in 1980. My dad had just been killed in a plane crash, and she reasoned my Flint uncle would serve as a surrogate father. That didn’t happen; he was a good man, but he had two boys of his own.