Redevelopment Agency of City of Stockton v. BNSF

How courts have described this case

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• finding that because the defendant installed a French drain to drain water-not contaminants-it could not be liable for nuisance
• noting that \the soil and groundwater contamination in this case constitutes a nuisance\
• finding no liability under this theory when defendant neither knew nor reasonably should have known about the nuisance
• addressing whether defendants were liable for nuisance under California law based on land contamination
• “Because the Railroads’ conduct with regard to the specific nuisance condition—the contamination—was not active, affirmative, or knowing, the Railroads simply did not ‘create or assist in the creation’ of the nuisance[.]”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).