Flint water researcher's defamation lawsuit challenged
ROANOKE, Va. (AP) — A Flint, Michigan, resident is among those embroiled in a legal battle over a letter criticizing a Virginia Tech professor who helped expose the city's water crisis.
The Roanoke Times reports the resident and two others filed an Aug. 10 motion to dismiss Marc Edwards' $3 million defamation lawsuit against them.
William Moran is the attorney for Flint resident Melissa Mays, Edwards' former co-researcher Yanna Lambrinidou and clean water activist Paul Schwartz. Moran says the letter signed by more than 60 Flint residents accuses Edwards of interfering with residents' efforts to self-organize and abusing scientific authority, among other allegations.