The US Constitution doesn’t provide a right to clean drinking water or accurate information from public officials, a divided federal appeals court ruled.
Residents of the city have claimed that officials deliberately allowed lead to contaminate the drinking water, harming those who drank it. Jackson has denied those allegations.
Engelhardt said while the residents raised a right to bodily integrity, that right applies in instances like sexual assault by a police officer and forced medication of prisoners. Mismanagement of a water system, he said, is “wholly different.”
Oh so if people are intentionally poisoning you, damaging your body, it’s a different legal category just because they did it to many people at once?
Oh so if people are intentionally poisoning you, damaging your body, it’s a different legal category just because they did it to many people at once?
Yeah, introducing an unwanted chemical into a prisoner’s body is totally different from… introducing an unwanted chemical into a non-prisoner’s body.