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Nuisance
241 published works
Media Law Prof Blog
Woman Drives Neighbors, Well, Bananas
And this gem from Brighton and Hove. A local woman made her neighbors crazy (for three years) by playing the theme song from The Banana Splits (remember, "Cha La La,…
Land Use Prof Blog
Nuisance Law and the Mortgage Crisis
I'm just now getting around to posting a link sent to me by Kermit Lind from Cleveland State's Urban Development Law Clinic. The page contains materials from their (fairly) recent…
Land Use Prof Blog
Sic Utere Tuo
So I've been having this running dispute with my next door neighbors about their barking dogs, and last night from somewhere in the depths of my brain arose the phrase,…
Land Use Prof Blog
Environmental Justice & Scrapyard Regulation
This is another in an occasional series of UGA Land Use Clinic student-authored posts. Today's guest blogger is Ryan H. Dodd, former Army JAG lawyer and current LL.M. Candidate in…
Tilting the Scales
Litigious Lessees and Other Customers
By Jamie Ribman
The newspapers recently reported the story of woman who filed suit seeking a $100,000+ recovery from her landlord and former neighbor for damages allegedly caused by cigarette smoke drifting through…
The Contingency
Fifth Circuit Joins Second on Global Warming Suits
Hurricane Katrina hit Louisiana and Mississippi on August 29, 2005. On September 23, Blawgletter reported that the Second Circuit revived a complaint that tied CO2 emissions to global warming under a…
Washington Energy Report
California Federal Court Dismisses Global Warming Common Law Nuisance Lawsuit
On October 15, 2009, the United States District Court for the Northern District of California (the “Court”) dismissed a lawsuit brought by the Kivalina Alaska Native Village and others against…
Land Use Prof Blog
The World of No Zoning
This morning my co-editor Matt Festa posted about the fact that Houston doesn't have zoning, and may be the only major city not to have it. However, according to Matt,…
Mass Tort Defense
Second Circuit Issues Nuisance Decision That May Impact “Climate Change” Litigation
By Sean Wajert
We posted here recently about proposed "climate change" legislation and how it may affect litigation. Now comes a federal appeals court ruli
Environmental Law Prof Blog
Conn. v. Amer. Electric Power Co. public nuisance case
John Bonine sent out an immediate e-mail to the ENVLAWPROF listserve, giving a succinct summary of the 2nd Circuit's opinion in the Connecticutt v. American Electric Power Co. public nuisance. …