He relied on a 1992 decision, Mattoon v. City of Pittsfield, by the 1st Circuit at Boston, which also found that the Safe Drinking
Water Act precludes civil rights lawsuits resulting from water contaminations.
Not exact matches
The feminist position springs not from the premise of our dignity, which applies to men as well as women and would
preclude such partisan perversions of semantics, but from responding to the pernicious modem premise that sex is a drink of
water with the equally wrongheaded premise that any politically incorrect
act by a man is a glass of poison.
Government officials also argue that a separate federal statute, the Safe Drinking
Water Act,
precludes all other causes of action.