Coming to the nuisance refers to a legal doctrine which prevents a party from claiming nuisance if said nuisance was present, and the party knew of that nuisance before they acquired the property subject to the nuisance. Historically, coming to the nuisance functioned as a complete bar to a nuisance action. In jurisdictions which have adopted the 2nd restatement of Torts §840D, however, coming to the nuisance does not
Chronic Noise Exposure and Reading Deficits Cornell May 1997
ABSTRACT: First- and second-grade schoolchildren chronically exposed to aircraft noise have significant deficits in reading as indexed by a standardized reading test administered under ...
Kids near airports don’t read as well because they tune out speech, Cornell study finds
Children in schools bombarded by frequent aircraft noise don’t learn to read as well as children in quiet schools, Cornell University researchers have confirmed. And they have discovered one major reason: kids tune out speech in the racket. “We’ve known for a long time that chronic noise is having a devastating effect on the academic