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Definitions
Law Insider: Toxic Trespass definition
Scholarly Articles
Lin, Albert, Beyond Tort: Compensating Victims of Environmental Toxic Injury.
SEAMANS, FRANK L. “Tort Liability For Pollution of Air and Water.”
Natural Resources Lawyer
3, no. 1 (1970): 146–53.
Juergensmeyer, Julian Conrad, "Control of Air Pollution Through the Assertion of Private Rights" (1967).
Wendy B. Davis et al., Hot Air: Undue Judicial Deference to Federal Aviation Administration Expertise in Assessing the Environmental Impacts of Aviation, 69 J. AIR L. & COM. 709 (2004)
Environmental Law: A Burden Established in Eminent Domain Proceedings
Sevinsky, J. A. (1990). Public Nuisance: A Common-Law Remedy Among the Statutes.
Natural Resources & Environment
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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)
Anthony Z. Roisman and Alexander Wolff,
Trespass by Pollution: Remedy by Mandatory Injunction
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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
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9
(2).
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
Hoery v. United States
Michie v. Great Lakes Steel Div., Nat'l Steel
United Verde Extension Min. Co. v. Ralston
Mangini v. Aerojet-General Corp.
Scribner v. Summers
Bieneman v. City of Chicago
Village of Wilsonville v. Sca Services, Inc.
Bradley v. American Smelting Refining
Mercer v. Rockwell Intern. Corp.
Sindell v. Abbott Laboratories
Borland v. Sanders Lead Co., Inc.
Owens v. City of Atlanta
Opinion Pieces
The Plaintiffs’ Lawyer Quest for the Holy Grail: The Public Nuisance “Super Tort”
Why Exxon Case Will Likely Become A Plaintiff Favorite
Toxic Trespass: Lead us not Into Litigation
Further Reading
Alaska Airlines & Delta Air Lines Caught Up In Air Pollution Lawsuit At Seattle-Tacoma Airport
Spokane International Airport receives enforcement order for PFAS contamination cleanup
Airport Neighbor Cites Lead Pollution In Suit (Corrected)
Seattle-Tacoma International Airport (Sea-Tac) Pollution Lawsuit
City of Tucson files lawsuit against federal government over water contamination
Class-action lawsuit against Port of Seattle and airlines proceeds in federal court
Department of Ecology forces Spokane International Airport into PFAS cleanup framework after agreement could not be reached
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