Sentence examples for constituted a nuisance to from inspiring English sources

A district court had dismissed the suit as addressing political questions but an appellate court ruled that that question was not settled and that the plaintiffs had standing under a common law, which held the pollutants constituted a nuisance to society.

Maintaining a personal hygiene so offensive as to constitute a nuisance to other patrons or staff and to interfere with their use of the Library.

Residents in the vicinity sued, and a jury determined that the project (not even built yet) would constitute a nuisance to 20 owners and awarded damages.

The ship's systems operating full-time will surely create air, noise and light pollution in the turning basin and constitute a nuisance to the surrounding properties.

Hanks said the council had a "far too narrow" view of what constituted a nuisance, believing it only applied to behaviour that involved physically blocking the entry to the clinic.

While the ruling stopped short of giving equal rights to animals, Federal District Judge Clarence A. Brimmer decided the fence constituted a "nuisance" and ordered the rancher to remove or modify it.

Plaintiff alleged that the operation of the property constituted a nuisance because of the noise involved and the flashing of truck headlights.

Relying on National Refining Co. v. Batte, supra, the court held that the light of cars shining into plaintiff's home constituted a nuisance.

We need not weigh with nicety the question whether the infected cedars constitute a nuisance according to the common law; or whether they may be so declared by statute.

In Chinatown, what constitutes a nuisance, according to the evictors, are acts like hanging your Chinese New Year's decorations on the door of one's apartment; or hanging one's laundry outside from the balcony of your small apartment, a practice that goes back decades.

The ruling validated an unusual legal strategy adopted by North Carolina's attorney general, Roy Cooper, who sued the T.V.A. in 2006 on grounds that pollution from its power plants in Alabama, Tennessee and Kentucky constituted a "public nuisance" to the citizens of his state.