Recent Updates to Website


Only substantive additions and revisions are noted here. Corrections to hyperlinks and minor corrections or rearrangement of content, as well as additions to the bibliography, are not reported.



2008

March 25 -- updated Technical Resources.


2007

Oct. 11 -- added information on FAA's development of the process by which airports can impose operating restrictions on stage-2 jets for noise abatement. See "Notice and Approval of Airport Noise and Access Restrictions (14 CFR Part 161)" under Federal Regulations.

Feb. 3 -- updated (cases) "County Airport Land Use Commissions in California," linked at Government Resources: State Government.

Feb. 1 -- updated "County Airport Land Use Commissions in California," linked at Government Resources: State Government.

Jan. 30 -- Added case State of Minnesota v. Metropolitan Airports Commission (Hennepin Co., Minn., Superior Ct. 2007), linked at Cases: Trial Courts outside California.


2006

Nov. 20 -- Updated Issues: Federal Preemption of Actions Related to Airport Noise

June 10 -- Updated Issues: Airport Records Disclosure

June 1 -- Updated Symposia and Conferences Concerning Airport Noise

May 25 -- Updated Acts of Congress Relevant to Airport Noise Control

Jan. 28 -- Updated Issues: Airport Records Disclosure


2005

Oct. 5 -- Added summary of Part 150 Airport Land Use Compatibility Planning.

July 27 -- Added liability for aircraft noise damages under Issues.

June 18 -- Added airport records disclosure under Issues.

June 7 -- Added case Naples Airport Authority v. FAA (U.S. Ct. Appeals D.C. Circuit, 2005), linked at Cases: U.S. Courts of Appeal.

April 30 -- Added case Riggs v. Burson (Tenn. Supreme Ct., 1997), linked at Cases: State Supreme Courts; revised paper on federal preemption of aviation regulation, linked at Issues.

April 27 -- Added new section Issues (selected legal issues), linked at Law Portal.

April 24 -- Added case Emerald Development Co. v. McNeill (Arkansas Ct. Appeals, 2003), linked at Cases: State Courts of Appeals.

March 17 -- Updated Airport Land Use Commissions in California.

March 3 -- Added case Casey et al. v. Goulian et al. (U.S. District Ct., D. Mass., 2003), linked at Cases: U.S. District Courts.

Jan. 3 -- Added case Powell and Raymer v. The United Kingdom (European Court of Human Rights, 1990), linked at Cases: International Courts.