Chapter 2. THE COMMON LAW
A. Public Nuisance.
Gerogia v. Tennessee Copper Co. (U.S. 1907 - 1938)
Some Photos of the area:
- Erosion [at] Copper Hill, Ducktown, Tennessee due to injuries from copper fumes credit: American Environmental Photographs Collection, Department of Special Collections, University of Chicago Library.)
- Another example of erosion from the same collection.
- Copper mining and sulfuric acid plant, [Copperhill], Tenn. Wolcott, Marion Post, 1910- photographer, from the American Memory collection of the Library of Congress.
- Copper mining and sulfuric acid plant, [Copperhill], Tenn. Wolcott, Marion Post, 1910- photographer, from the same collection.
Spur Industries, Inc. v. Del E. Web Development Co. (Ariz. 1972) p. 2-11
B. Private Nuisance.
C. Trespass.
D. Common Law Remedies for Releases of Hazardous Substances.
Scribner v. Summers (2nd Cir. 1996) p. 2-40
E. Call in the Insurance Company.
Environmental Regulation of Real Estate / Professor Cyril
A. Fox / University of Pittsburgh School of Law / fox@law.pitt.edu
/ © 2000