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Definitions

Legal Information Institute | Nuisance
Legal Information Institute | Eminent Domain
Legal Information Institute | Takings

Scholarly Articles

William M. Allen, The Right of Flight over Private Property, 7 Wash. L. Rev. 274 (1932).
Aviation Noise Abatement: Federal Control but Local Liability?, 22 URB. L. ANN. 301 (1981)
Kettelson, Ernest S. “INVERSE CONDEMNATION OF AIR EASEMENTS.” Real Property, Probate and Trust Journal 3, no. 1 (1968): 97–110
Scott P. Keifer, Aircraft Overflights as a Fifth Amendment Taking: The Extension of Damages for the Loss of Potential Future Uses to Aviation Easements. Brown v. United States, 4 Mo. Envtl. L. & Pol'y Rev. 88 (1996)
Aviator's Rights in Airspace - United States v. Causby, 8 Md. L. Rev. 300 (1944)
Stanley L. Lester, Nuisance -- As a "Taking" of Property, 17 U. Miami L. Rev. 537 (1963)
Dan H. Honeywell, Eminent Domain: Inverse Condemnation--What Constitutes a Taking?, 21 Fla. L. Rev. 257 (1968).
Scott P. Keifer, Aircraft Overflights as a Fifth Amendment Taking: The Extension of Damages for the Loss of Potential Future Uses to Aviation Easements. Brown v. United States, 4 Mo. Envtl. L. & Pol'y Rev. 88 (1996)
Eminent Domain: Oregon Supreme Court Holds Aircraft Noise Nuisance Sufficient for Constitutional Taking of Private Property
John A. Eubank, Land Damage Liability in Aircraft Cases, 57 DICK. L. REV. 188 (1953).
The Continuing Violations Doctrine
Colin Cahoon, Low Altitude Airspace: A Property Rights No-Man's Land, 56 J. Air L. & Com. 157 (1990)
Inverse Condemnation and the Highway Cases: Compensation for Abutting Landowners
William B. Stoebuck, Condemnation by Nuisance: The Airport Cases in Retrospect and Prospect, 71 DICK. L. REV. 207 (1967).
Airport Noise Litigation in the 21st Century: A Survey of Current Issues
Ball, Carlos A., The Curious Intersection of Nuisance and Takings Law. Boston University Law Review
Robert E. Keeton, Restating Strict Liability and Nuisance, 48 Vanderbilt Law Review 595 (1995)
Environmental Law: A Burden Established in Eminent Domain Proceedings
Missing from Oregon’s Takings Clause: The Right to a Jury Trial of Compensation in Eminent Domain Proceedings
Robert K. Eifler S.Ed., CONSTITUTIONAL LAW-TAKING PRIVATE PROPERTY FOR PUBLIC USE-CONTROL OF AIRSPACE, 45 MICH. L. REV. 875 (1947).
Christina O. Morris, Noise Pollution: Attempted Federal Control of Airplane Noise, 18 NAT. RES. J. 621 (1978).
Aviation Noise Abatement: Federal Control but Local Liability?, 22 URB. L. ANN. 301 (1981)
Edward C. Sweeney, Adjusting the Conflicting Interests of Landowner and Aviator in Anglo-American Law, 3 J. Air L. & Com. 531 (1932)
Richard A. Repp, Wrongs and Rights in Superterraneous Airspace: Causby and the Courts, 9 Wm. & Mary L. Rev. 460 (1967)
Falzone, Kristin L. Airport Noise Pollution: Is There a Solution in Sight? (1999) Boston College Environmental Affairs Law Review, 26(4), 769

Case Law

Ackerman v. Port of Seattle
United States v. Dickinson
Batten v. United States
Persyn v. U.S.
Greater Westchester v. City of Los Angeles
Armstrong v. United States
Bieneman v. City of Chicago
Loma Portal Civic Club v. American Airlines, Inc.
Smith v. New England Aircraft Co. Inc.
City of Jacksonville v. Schumann
Thornburg v. Port of Portland
Baker v. Burbank-Glendale-Pasadena Airport Authority
Vorhees v. Naper Aero Club, Inc.
Virginia Highlands Airport Authority v Singleton Auto Parts Inc.
Cereghino v. State Highway Commission
Bearse et al v. Port of Seattle

Opinion Pieces

Avigation Easements, and Lawsuits for Inverse Condemnation and for Nuisance
Causby and effect: How the Uniform Law Commission’s misplaced reliance on a 1946 Supreme Court case threatens the drone industry
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