Topic
Nuisance
241 published works
Renewable + Law
Texas Court Rules in Horse Hollow Wind Farm Case
The Texas Court of Appeals handed down its decision in Rankin v. FPL Energy, LLC on August 21, 2008. Plaintiffs had brought public and private nuisance claims against FPLE's Horse Hollow Wind…
Tucson Land Use Law Blog
Stucco vs Equines
A recent article in the Arizona Daily Star discussed and highlighted an increasingly controversial land use issue: what happens when the suburbs run into rural land uses, namely small horse…
TortsProf Blog
Sebok on Rhode Island Lead Paint Case – Part II
In his latest Findlaw column, Tony Sebok concludes his two-part series on the lead paint nuisance suits filed by the State of Rhode Island against the lead paint industry. Sebok…
TortsProf Blog
Hylton on Nuisance and Environmental Regulation
Keith Hylton has posted on SSRN The Economic Theory of Nuisance Law and Implications for Environmental Regulation. Here's the abstract:I explore the economic structure of nuisance law as a mechanism…
PropertyProf Blog
Subprime Lawsuits by Cleveland and Baltimore
By propertyprof
I've been thinking about the nuisance lawsuit that Cleveland filed against a series of subprime lenders and the Baltimore lawsuit filed about Wells Fargo, based on the Fair Housing Act. …
Land Use Prof Blog
A donkey in the wrong place …
The most remarkable thing about nuisance law is its flexibility -– conduct that might be perfectly reasonable in a rural area isn’t acceptable when the area becomes more crowded. …
Land Use Prof Blog
The right to live as one desires?
How far can or should government go in regulating the details of residential land use? When does a regulation infringe on a resident’s “rights”? I saw on TV this…
Land Use Prof Blog
Not so crazy about ethanol distilleries …
Few developments have galvanized the American farm belt in the past century as much as the ethanol craze, which promises to bring wealth and world attention back to the…
Land Use Prof Blog
Meshing common law, statutes, and the constitution …
It’s been nearly a century since statutory law began to supplant common law as the chief source of land use regulation. But the old concepts still pop up once…
Land Use Prof Blog
Without zoning, it’s a roller coaster ride …
Zoning laws were justified in the early twentieth century in part through horror stories about industrial land uses in a rapidly urbanizing nation being built next to established…