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Yes, but surely it's a deprivation of rights to trick someone into drinking poison? Isn't that even how the gas chambers at some extermination camps worked? They tell you it's showers and you go in "voluntarily"?
When you file a lawsuit you basically say two things: 1. Defendant(s) did this things which harmed me. 2. This violates these specific laws and you list those laws and explain how the things from #1 violate them. The trial court determines which of the things in #1 that you allege are true. Then, if they determine that at least some of them are true, they figure out which of the specific laws from #2 were violated. T…
The people bringing the lawsuit are not in fact asserting a right to clean water, they are asserting a right to not be deliberately poisoned by deception.