Public Nuisance
About Public NuisanceOver the past several years, trial lawyers have been working to expand the legal doctrine of public nuisance as a vehicle for new types of profit-generating lawsuits and as a backhanded means of trying to change public policy. |
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Will Plaintiffs' Lawyers Find New Ways to Sue? They Bet Their Boat They WillBy Lisa Rickard "...Public nuisance—an 800-year-old legal concept, today used to settle disputes such as neighborhood quarrels over loud rock music—is a legal standard intended to apply to unreasonable interference with public rights. In seeking to have it apply to lead paint, the plaintiffs sought to bypass well-settled notions of product liability law, such as the requirement to demonstrate that the defendant in the case actually caused the harm in question..." |
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