Public nuisance has lived many lives. A centuries-old doctrine defined as an unreasonable
interference with a right common to the public, it is currently the backbone of thousands of …

Public nuisance has recently been dusted off as a potential source of legal redress for
tobacco use, handgun distribution, lead paint removal, MTBE contamination, and global …

Over the past half-century, product-related public health crises have claimed millions of
American lives. Two of these crises have been especially prominent-tobacco and opioids. In …

This Article contributes to an emerging theoretical debate over the legitimate scope of public
health law by linking it to a particular doctrinal debate in public nuisance law. State and local …

Public nuisance is taking the modern tort world by storm. Once relegated to the backwaters-
a marginal note in the main torts casebooks, the subject of scant law review articles-the …

The opioid crisis has been in litigation for almost twenty years on various fronts, including
criminal prosecutions of pharmaceutical executives, civil lawsuits by individuals against drug …

In contrast to the traditional legal commentary, I find nuisance law to be a coherent body of
rules that serves an explainable function. Nuisance optimally regulates activity levels …

Public nuisance claims against fossil fuel companies, drug companies, lead paint
manufacturers, and other industries have raised the specter of onerous abatement orders …

Cases and Materials on Torts preserves historical and conceptual continuity between the
present and the past, while addressing the most significant contemporary controversies in …

Public nuisance is a common law and statutory tort that allows for civil suits to abate
interferences with" public right" rights such as the right to clean air and clean water. 1 Recent …