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Definitions
Law Insider: Toxic Trespass definition
Scholarly Articles
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
,
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
Bradley v. American Smelting Refining
Owens v. City of Atlanta
Mercer v. Rockwell Intern. Corp.
Village of Wilsonville v. Sca Services, Inc.
Michie v. Great Lakes Steel Div., Nat'l Steel
Sindell v. Abbott Laboratories
United Verde Extension Min. Co. v. Ralston
Mangini v. Aerojet-General Corp.
Borland v. Sanders Lead Co., Inc.
Scribner v. Summers
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
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