Dec 22, 2025
Welcome back to the Law School Toolbox podcast! Today, we have another episode in our "Listen and Learn" series. This time, we're talking about nuisances (public and private).
In this episode we discuss:
- How does nuisance show up on an exam?
- The similarities and differences between public and private nuisance
- Defenses to nuisance claims
- Analyzing a hypo from the California First-Year Law Students' Examination from June 2014
- How to structure your answer to a question involving nuisance
- A reminder to extract individual facts from the fact pattern and figure out why each one matters
Resources:
- "Listen and Learn" series (https://lawschooltoolbox.com/law-school-toolbox-podcast-substantive-law-topics/#listen-learn)
- California First-Year Law Students' Examination, June 2014 (http://www.calbar.ca.gov/Portals/0/documents/admissions/fyx/FYLSX_June2014_Essay_Questions.pdf)
- Podcast Episode 257: Listen and Learn – The "Reasonable Person" Standard (https://lawschooltoolbox.com/podcast-episode-257-listen-and-learn-the-reasonable-person-standard/)
- Podcast Episode 265: Listen and Learn – Constructive Eviction (https://lawschooltoolbox.com/podcast-episode-265-listen-and-learn-constructive-eviction/)
Download the Transcript
(https://lawschooltoolbox.com/episode-535-listen-and-learn-public-and-private-nuisance/)
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Alison & Lee