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

Scholarly Articles

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).

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)

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

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

Opinion Pieces

Avigation Easements, and Lawsuits for Inverse Condemnation and for Nuisance

The Plaintiffs’ Lawyer Quest for the Holy Grail: The Public Nuisance “Super Tort”