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Nuisance Cases in Small Claims Court

Congressional Research Service | The Federal Tort Claims Act (FTCA): A Legal Overview

Scholarly Articles

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)
Juergensmeyer, Julian Conrad, "Control of Air Pollution Through the Assertion of Private Rights" (1967).
Magdalena Habdas, Airport Noise as Public Bads: Comparative Remarks on Legal Challenges in Resolving the Neighbor Conflict Between the Airport and Landowners, 87 J. AIR L. & COM. 91 (2022)
Aviator's Rights in Airspace - United States v. Causby, 8 Md. L. Rev. 300 (1944)
Lyman B. Gillet, Air Law: Nuisance; Trespass, 15 Marq. L. Rev. 47 (1930).
Stanley L. Lester, Nuisance -- As a "Taking" of Property, 17 U. Miami L. Rev. 537 (1963)
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)
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)
Hillary B. Farber, Keep Out! The Efficacy Of Trespass, Nuisance And Privacy Torts As Applied To Drones, 33 Ga. St. U. L. Rev. 359 (2017)
Sevinsky, J. A. (1990). Public Nuisance: A Common-Law Remedy Among the Statutes. Natural Resources & Environment, 5(1), 29–60
Blumm, Michael C., A Dozen Landmark Nuisance Cases and Their Environmental Significance (November 16, 2019). 62 Arizona Law Review 403 (2020)
Farber, Daniel. (2005). The Story of Boomer: Pollution and the Common Law. Ecology law quarterly. 32.
Friedland, E. (2020). Pollution Share Liability: A New Remedy for NO. 2 Plaintiffs Injured by Air Pollutants. Columbia Journal of Environmental Law, 9(2).
Mary Jo Soenksen, Note, Airports: Full of Sound and Fury and Conflicting Legal Views, 12 Transp. L.J. 325 (1982).
Stanley L. Lester, Nuisance -- As a "Taking" of Property, 17 U. Miami L. Rev. 537 (1963)
Jill E. Evans, See Repose Run: Setting the Boundaries of the Rule of Repose in Environmental Trespass and Nuisance Cases, 38 Wm. & Mary Envtl L. & Pol'y Rev. 119 (2013)
Robert K. Eifler S.Ed., CONSTITUTIONAL LAW-TAKING PRIVATE PROPERTY FOR PUBLIC USE-CONTROL OF AIRSPACE, 45 MICH. L. REV. 875 (1947).

Case Law

City of Jacksonville v. Schumann
Hoery v. United States of America
Thornburg v. Port of Portland
Smith v. New England Aircraft Co. Inc.
Baker v. Burbank-Glendale-Pasadena Airport Authority
Batten v. United States
Rose v. Chaikin
Persyn v. U.S.
Vorhees v. Naper Aero Club, Inc.
Casey v. Goulian
Greater Westchester v. City of Los Angeles
Michie v. Great Lakes Steel Div., Nat'l Steel
Swetland v. Curtiss Airports Corp.
Mangini v. Aerojet-General Corp.
Scribner v. Summers
Allison v. Department of Transp

Opinion Pieces

Aviation Noise Claims Under the Federal Tort Claims Act
Avigation Easements, and Lawsuits for Inverse Condemnation and for Nuisance
The Plaintiffs’ Lawyer Quest for the Holy Grail: The Public Nuisance “Super Tort”

Further Reading
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