Id., at 489, 491, 497 (holding that the Clean Water Act does not preclude aggrieved individuals from bringing a "nuisance claim pursuant to the law of the source State").
"The writer or the writer's co-op board can bring a nuisance proceeding against the next-door neighbor in State Supreme Court," Mr. Bailey said, "but such cases are very difficult to win".
Really the Sethi vs Techcrunch case has nothing to do with freedom of speech and everything to do with how ridiculously cheap and easy it is for a delusional litigant to bring a nuisance lawsuit in the UK against a journalist who is telling the truth.
Whether inside or outside of a common-interest development, anyone affected by noise may bring a nuisance lawsuit against the perpetrators.
So the state of Rhode Island, with lead paint in 60% of its 415,000 homes (the national average is 25%), changed tactics and brought a public nuisance case against Sherwin and two other past producers of lead-paint pigment.
Under this definition, the City can bring a private nuisance claim for harm to the City's property, which is reflected in the complaint.
Weinstein, who was known to be sympathetic to gun victims in such cases, threw out the lawsuit on technical grounds, but his massive 261-page ruling amounted to "a blueprint for bringing a successful public nuisance claim against the industry," Lytton wrote later.
And if you are the victim of unreasonable noise from your neighbouring public house, this could give you the right to bring a civil action based on nuisance.
Long before there were zoning or building codes, municipalities brought nuisance actions against harmful practices, like operating a slaughterhouse in a residential neighborhood or releasing too much smoke or dust from a factory.
If that doesn't work, Mr. Rosenberg said, the letter writer should bring an action for a private nuisance in the State Supreme Court.
