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All Your Air Right Are Belong To Us, Chad J. Pomeroy
All Your Air Right Are Belong To Us, Chad J. Pomeroy
Faculty Articles
Privacy and property rights are tricky subjects for a variety of reasons. One reason is that they have a unique relationship with each other, and this Article focuses on one of those areas of intersection—that of air rights and invasion of privacy. This is a timely topic due to the advent of drones, and this Article will argue that drone surveillance constitutes common law trespass and that any statute or regulation that permits such activity is in derogation of common law and so should be subject to particularly careful thought and consideration.
This is not as straightforward a thesis as …
Money From Heaven: Should Qualified Air Rights Donations Be Characterized As Interests In Land Or Buildings - Why Does It Matter , Daniel Markey
Money From Heaven: Should Qualified Air Rights Donations Be Characterized As Interests In Land Or Buildings - Why Does It Matter , Daniel Markey
Cleveland State Law Review
Currently, the Internal Revenue Service (hereinafter I.R.S.) and the federal courts do not offer specific positive authority as to whether large amounts of easement value from donated air rights can be allocated against the capital account of "land" as opposed to a "building" on a given tract of real estate. A lack of authority in this area creates uncertainty in the real estate market. This uncertainty is not only with the payment of federal income, estate, and gift taxes, but it also has a ripple effect with the assessment of local property taxes. Most importantly, if a deal is on …
The Use Of Arbitration In The Settlement Of Bilateral Air Rights Disputes, Ross T. Dicker
The Use Of Arbitration In The Settlement Of Bilateral Air Rights Disputes, Ross T. Dicker
Vanderbilt Journal of Transnational Law
In the field of aviation, world transportation is bound together by a highly complex and sophisticated arrangement in which each country designates a single carrier to carry its flag to foreign-countries. The United States has not followed this practice of designating one line as the nation's flag carrier and has twenty "international" carriers which transport passengers, cargo, and mail to foreign countries. Each one of these carriers is a private business concern, competing in most cases with another American carrier covering the same route, and in all cases with the air carrier of the country to which it flies. In …