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...Nuisance law traditionally covers invasion of another's property rights, and is increasingly being applied to environmental pollution. "In air pollution," says Chicago Law Professor David Currie, "you may very well show that the value of your property was diminished because of the effects of smoke." General damage to the environment is harder to assess. Nuisance law is rarely applicable until after the damage is done...
...bishops privately opposed his birth-control ruling. He recognized that the Pontiff was free to use his supreme power as he saw fit, but in "grave and major matters" affecting the entire church, the cardinal said, it was only fitting to use the advice of bishops. Otherwise, there might well be a repetition of the birth-control crisis...
...Karaganis puts it, "to light a fire under public law-enforcement officials." Beyond that, conservationists' suits tend to be underfinanced, a handicap in fighting both large industries and the many small ones that contribute to regional air and water pollution. In addition, a court injunction against potential as well as present polluters still requires proof that irreparable damage is likely, a difficult task when it comes to such highly technical puzzles as last January's Santa Barbara...
...three occasions was visited by British diplomats, Barrymaine had no contact with the outside world. At a press conference in Hong Kong, he admitted to reporters that after seven months in captivity, he had signed a "whole transcript, millions of bloody words of it, and a few confessions as well. Why not? I can assure you," he added with a smile, "it's not pleasant to be in a Chinese prison. Then again, I don't suppose it's meant...
...books and articles they planned to write. Grey kept a diary for just that purpose and is already in print with the first of a three-part series in this week's London Sunday sensation sheet, The People, which is being syndicated in Europe and Australia as well. The price reportedly paid was well over $25,000-a lot of money, perhaps, but earned the hard...