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Can Public Nuisance Law Protect Your Neighborhood From Big Banks?, Kermit J. Lind
Can Public Nuisance Law Protect Your Neighborhood From Big Banks?, Kermit J. Lind
Law Faculty Articles and Essays
This article considers how the law of public nuisance might be applied to protect neighborhoods from the destructive forces of the mortgage crisis. For more than thirty years I have been a close observer and a participant in community development at the neighborhood level in Cleveland, Ohio. I now supervise a law school clinical practice that provides legal counsel to an array of nonprofit community development corporations that, for more than thirty-five years, have been renewing housing and neighborhood sustainability in a city going through major social and economic change.
Harmful Use And The Takings Clause In The Eye Of The Beholder: Lucas V. South Carolina Coastal Council, Charles H. Clarke
Harmful Use And The Takings Clause In The Eye Of The Beholder: Lucas V. South Carolina Coastal Council, Charles H. Clarke
Cleveland State Law Review
Whichever of these two possibilities prevails, both possibilities require the courts to perform essentially legislative functions regardless, in other words, of whether public ecological resources receive insufficient or ample protection from private enterprise that wants to consume them. The traditional Takings Clause precedents, on the other hand, would give public ecological resources and private property ample protection with minimum judicial oversight. The traditional position seems preferable for this reason.
Change Of Neighborhood In Nuisance Cases, Martin A. Levitin
Change Of Neighborhood In Nuisance Cases, Martin A. Levitin
Cleveland State Law Review
The law of nuisance lies somewhere between the legal principle that each person may use his property as he sees fit, and the contradictory principle that he must so use it as not to injure the property or rights of his neighbors. With the growth of our nation, and its changing balance between rural and urban populations, the established principles of tort law as applied to nuisances evidence the "elastic adaptability" of the common law.