Residents:  Defendants Not Entitled To Immunity In Jackson Water Crisis Case

(August 29, 2023, 3:03 PM EDT) -- JACKSON, Miss. — The residents of Jackson who sued the city and some officials for injuries related to the contaminated water crisis in that city have filed a brief in Mississippi federal court contending that the defendants’ attempt to assert qualified immunity should be denied because the residents have “more than adequately pleaded” that the defendants acted with “deliberate indifference in violation of Plaintiffs’ fundamental constitutional rights to bodily integrity and to be free from state-created dangers.”...