Topic
Nuisance
241 published works
ContractsProf Blog
Good Boi Expels Gas (and Fancy People) from First Class
Thanks to Miriam Cherry for sharing with us this case that straddles contracts law and the law of noisome nuisances. Although this story appears in People Magazine, the main character is…
Agricultural Law and Taxation Blog
Kansas Court of Appeals Decides Major Hog Nuisance Case
OverviewA recent opinion by the Kansas Court of Appeals provides a thorough explanation of property rights with respect to road ditch rights-of-way, as well as the common law of trespass…
A Lawyer's Blog
NOISY NEIGHBORS IN THE BRONX
Clearly, at least in NYC, the nuisance must be substantial and unreasonable before damages are available and landlord is only obligated to take reasonable steps (and that depends on the…
Health Law Prof Blog
Chronic Nuisance Ordinances, Impossible Choices, and State Constitutions
Sean Gray (University of Virginia), Chronic Nuisance Ordinances, Impossible Choices, and State Constitutions, 109 Va. L. Rev. (2022): Hundreds of towns and cities across the United States have chronic nuisance ordinances…
Ontario Condo Law Blog
Common element nuisance – what’s bugs got to do (got to do with it)?
By Andrea Lusk
An owner brought a CAT application alleging she was experiencing unreasonable noise from a common element garage grate and unreasonable noise, odour, smoke and vapour from a common element industrial…
UK Human Rights Blog
2023: Year of the Nuisance?
Introduction Photograph: Jeff Morgan 16/Alamy; the Guardian 2023 has already been a landmark year for nuisance, with the Supreme Court handing down its controversial decision in Fearn v Tate Gallery (as discussed…
Louisiana Law Blog
New Orleans Adopts “Chronic Nuisance” Ordinance
On February 2, 2023, the New Orleans City Council adopted an ordinance modeled after that of the City of Baltimore, Maryland, wherein properties found to be “chronic public nuisances” may…
UK Human Rights Blog
Supreme Court finally weighs in on the Tate’s viewing platform
In a headline-grabbing decision, the Supreme Court has decided that an observation platform at the Tate Modern Art Gallery (“the Tate”), which overlooks a number of nearby luxury apartments, gives…
Real Estate Insights
A room with a view…. and a nuisance – The Tate Modern
The widely anticipated judgement of the case of Fearn and Others v Board of Trustees of the Tate Gallery from the Supreme Court was delivered on 1 February 2023, opening up…
California Land Use & Development Law Report
Subway Construction Work Did Not Inversely Condemn Hotel Property
A hotel owner brought a lawsuit against a county transportation authority and a general contractor for nuisance and inverse condemnation alleging that the construction of an underground subway line disrupted…