Lorraine A. Beatty v. Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority

How courts have described this case

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• explaining that “[a] temporary or continuing nuisance is one which is ‘abatable,’ or . . . intermittent or periodical,” such that “a new cause of action arises with each new invasion or injury”
• “The cases teach that WMATA will not be liable for determinations made in establishing “plans, specifications or schedules of operations”
• “The cases teach that WMATA will not be liable for determinations made in establishing “plans, specifications or schedules of operations”
• “Since there are material questions of fact as to whether the nuisance was caused in the performance of a governmental or proprietary function, we cannot hold, as a matter of law, that WMATA is immune from suit under the WMATA Compact.”
• continuing nuisance one which is abatable, or intermittent or periodical

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).