Mealey's (September 12, 2022, 1:19 PM EDT) -- ANN ARBOR, Mich. — A federal judge in Michigan on Sept. 7 denied the U.S. government’s motion for interlocutory appeal in the Flint water crisis litigation, ruling that it is “not subject to reasonable dispute” that the discretionary function exception did not shield the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s failure to comply with the Safe Drinking Water Act (SDWA) and, therefore, the government did not meet its burden to show that interlocutory appeal is warranted....