“[JURIST] The US Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit [official website] affirmed [opinion, PDF] a lower court decision on Friday, requiring the state of Michigan to provide bottled water to the citizens of Flint. The court affirmed a ruling that required the state of Michigan to provide water to households without water filters. Michigan attempted to stay the order, citing evidence of extreme cost to the government. The state contends that as of now 96 percent of households already possess a functioning water filter. The court said that the state still has funds from the 212 million dollars that the state had allocated in response to the Flint water crisis..”