Sentence examples for nuisance claim from inspiring English sources

Chicago had refiled its suit in March after the judge dismissed the negligence claim and deferred ruling on the public nuisance claim.

The Obama administration urged the Supreme Court to hear the appeal but for a somewhat different reason, saying the nuisance claim would interfere with its current efforts to regulate carbon dioxide through the Environmental Protection Agency.

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Under this definition, the City can bring a private nuisance claim for harm to the City's property, which is reflected in the complaint.

There's nothing unusual about having this combination of nuisance claims when a public entity brings this kind of action, provided that there is harm to the City's own property to support the private nuisance claim.

Appellate courts in Illinois, Missouri and New Jersey have rejected similar public nuisance claims.

While these may benefit German law firms financially, technology experts and smaller German technology firms say the system is being abused to generate nuisance claims.

The pollution should fall under the nuisance claims in Louisiana civil law and other states' common law, just as a neighbor's toxic dump or feedlot might.

There are several defences to nuisance claims; in Nichols v Marsland, for example, "Act of God" was accepted as a defence.

The potential defendants in public nuisance claims are the same as those in private nuisance, with their liability dependent on a test of reasonableness; in public nuisance, however, this is determined by looking solely at the interference, not the defendant's actions.

The Chicago suit was initially dismissed in September 2000 by a Cook County judge who did not agree that a public-nuisance claim could be made against the gun industry.