Definitions

US Legal | Ownership of Airspace Over Property

US Legal | Rights in Airspace and Relative Rights of Surface Proprietors

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Scholarly Articles

William M. Allen, The Right of Flight over Private Property, 7 Wash. L. Rev. 274 (1932).

Adolph C. Hugin, Airspace Rights and Liabilities As Affected by Aircraft Operation, 26 Notre Dame L. Rev. 620 (1951).

Airplane Noise, Property Rights, and the Constitution. (1965). Columbia Law Review, 65(8), 1428–1447

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).

Pierce Giboney, Don't Ground Me Bro!: Private Ownership of Airspace and How It Invalidates the FAA's Blanket Prohibition on Low Altitude Commercial Drone Operations, 67 Fla. L. Rev. 2149 (2015).

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).

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

Airport Noise Litigation in the 21st Century: A Survey of Current Issues

Environmental Law: A Burden Established in Eminent Domain Proceedings

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)

Anthony Z. Roisman and Alexander Wolff, Trespass by Pollution: Remedy by Mandatory Injunction, 21 Fordham Envtl. L. Rev. 157 (2010).

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).

Chad J. Pomeroy, All Your Air Right Are Belong to Us, 13 Nw. J. Tech. & Intell. Prop. 277 (2015).

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Case Law

Hoery v. United States

United States v. Gaidys

City of Jacksonville v. Schumann

Smith v. New England Aircraft Co. Inc.

Baker v. Burbank-Glendale-Pasadena Airport Authority

Batten v. United States

Vorhees v. Naper Aero Club, Inc.

Swetland v. Curtiss Airports Corp.

Scribner v. Summers

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Opinion Pieces

Aviation Noise Claims Under the Federal Tort Claims Act

Causby and effect: How the Uniform Law Commission’s misplaced reliance on a 1946 Supreme Court case threatens the drone industry