Jackson’s Long-Term Water Woes Seen as Best Solved in Court (1)

A lawyer who represented thousands of children in the Flint, Mich., water crisis says suits he filed against the city of Jackson, Miss., would help to resolve decades of neglect that contributed to Jackson’s loss of drinking water.

“Sometimes by the nature of litigation, you have an effect on the way things are done,” said Corey Stern, a partner at Levy Konigsberg LLP in New York.

Because of the Flint litigation, “I’d be shocked if what happened in Flint happens again,” and the same thing would be true for Jackson, he said.

Stern over the last year has filed three ...