Supreme Court Won’t Take Up Flint Water Crisis Case

The Supreme Court won’t review a closely watched civil rights case stemming from the Flint water crisis.

The justices on Tuesday rejected a petition for review from Flint, Mich., and local officials who want to block claims that they violated residents’ rights to “bodily integrity” by changing the local drinking water source in 2014 and exposing thousands of people to dangerously high levels of lead.

Bodily integrity, the right to have one’s body free from physical interference, is what’s called a substantive due process right—a fundamental protection acknowledged by courts but not spelled out in the U.S. Constitution.

Flint lawyers ...