Publication Archive: Flint Water Crisis

Reverend Al Sharpton urged people to be part of a civil lawsuit following the Flint water emergency. The Baptist minister wants those impacted by the water emergency, to hold the ones responsible, accountable. The civil rights activist was invited to the Vehicle City to help sign up more people to a civil lawsuit. The law…Read the article

Federal Judge Judy Levy said she can’t force the state to bring water back to a whole city on one person’s complaint. His attorney Hunter Shkolnik, of the Napoli Shkolnik firm based in New York, used that information in court Friday to ask a judge to immediately re-open the state-run water PODs in Flint. “The…Read the article

A federal judge won’t force the state to immediately resume giving out bottled water to Flint residents affected by the city’s lead-tainted tap water crisis. Following the hearing, Hunter Shkolnik, the plaintiff’s lead attorney, said he felt that the judge had looked at the facts and determined that Bryant may not be “the right plaintiff”…Read the article

The Governor’s Office said the water has been testing well below the federal action level for lead for more than 18 months, so the free bottled water was no longer needed. Plaintiff Client Allen Bryant said he begs to differ. And that’s why he teamed up with the firm Napoli Shkolnik, based in New York,…Read the article

Sunday’s town hall was an effort to spread the word and let residents have their questions answered by a panel which included Napoli Shkolnik attorneys.Read the article

Actor Hill Harper led the town hall and a panel that included Councilman Eric Mays with Napoli Shkolnik lawyers.Read the article

Attorneys from Napoli Shkolnik PLLC will be on hand to discuss the possibility of a settlement with state and local government officials, health care options and other topics. Sunday, February 18 at 2pm at Metropolitan Baptist Tabernacle.Read the article

“We will very shortly be filing hundreds of cases,” said Hunter Shkolnik, a New York-based attorney representing a group of plaintiffs.Read the article

In this issue, we discuss several new court appointments for our key attorneys: Paul Napoli’s appointment as Co-Lead Counsel in the New York Opioid Cost Recovery Litigation Hunter Shkolnik’s appointment as Co-Liaison Counsel in the Flint Water Crisis Litigation Shayna Sacks’s appointment to the Plaintiff’s Steering Committee in the nationwide Proton Pump Inhibitors (PPI) Litigation Senior…Read the article

The fall 2017 version of our quarterly newsletter. In this issue, we discuss the nation’s opioid epidemic in addition to our advances in many of the cases that are currently in litigation.Read the article