- By Adjoa Kyerematen
A class-action lawsuit has been brought against the City of Jackson in the city’s ongoing water crisis.
The latest, filed in the Southern District of Mississippi, is brought by Lieff Cabraser Heimann & Bernstein, the Law Offices of Larry D. Moffett, Kershaw Talley Barlow and Gibbs Travis.
It is the first federal class action lawsuit seeking injunctive relief and monetary damages against “various government and private engineering defendants over the neglect, mismanagement, and maintenance failures that led to an environmental catastrophe leaving more than 153,000 Jackson-area residents without access to safe running water.”
“All families are entitled to clean and safe drinking water,” said Lieff Cabraser partner Mark P. Chalos, who also represents the Plaintiffs in the case. “Government officials turning a blind eye to contaminated water and letting a major American city’s infrastructure crumble into disrepair is neither representing nor caring for its people. This lawsuit seeks to bring justice — and safe, clean water — to the Jackson community.”
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