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View Comments An attorney who has repeatedly criticized a federal judge for her handling of the Flint drinking water civil cases got some payback Tuesday when he was caught sleeping during an online court hearing. U.S. District Judge Judith Levy called out Mark Cuker of Philadelphia after he dozed off during a fairness hearing on the proposed $641.25 million partial settlement of the case. Cuker has clashed repeatedly with Levy over off-the-record conferences she has held with other attorneys in the case. Cuker was among three attorneys who went to the U.S. 6th Circuit Court of Appeals, askin...

View Comments DETROIT — An attorney who has repeatedly criticized a federal judge for her handling of the Flint drinking water civil cases got some payback Tuesday when he was caught sleeping during an online court hearing. U.S. District Judge Judith Levy called out Mark Cuker of Philadelphia after he dozed off during a fairness hearing on the proposed $641.25 million partial settlement of the case. Cuker has clashed repeatedly with Levy over off-the-record conferences she has held with other attorneys in the case. Cuker was among three attorneys who went to the U.S. 6th Circuit Court of Ap...

View Comments A Flint pediatrician and former hospital CEO blasted the use of industrial scanners — not designed for use on human beings — to document Flint residents' exposure to lead-contaminated drinking water, as a federal judge began a multi-day hearing Monday on whether a proposed $641.25 million partial settlement is a fair one. "It's just mind-boggling," Dr. Lawrence Reynolds, the former president and CEO of Mott Children's Health Center in Flint, told U.S. District Judge Judith Levy. "This is completely irresponsible and unethical." Bone scans have emerged as an important w...

Lawyers are defending the use of a handheld device to check for lead in Flint residents, despite the manufacturer’s warning that it wasn’t designed for that work

It is the latest development in a controversy over the use of the portable lead scanners to measure how much lead is in the bones of Flint residents.