Miscellaneous

Where There's Smoke, There's Flames
A blogger's posting about a lawyer-couple's lawsuit against their neighbor for her failure to abate cigarette smoke seepage from her apartment into a common hallway ignited a swarm of flames against lawyers for their aggressive, obnoxious and money-grubbing ways...

2 women accused of letting 2-year-old smoke at Ponderosa
Story is from Wisconsin. I'm more concerned about his other bad habit: The aunt told police that the boy often says "smoke, smoke" and sometimes takes cigarettes out of the pack and puts them in his mouth...

3 Children And Two Adults Killed in Fire
A family of five, including three children as young as 15 months, died in a blaze that filled an apartment with thick black smoke and kept the victims from escaping through the front door...

Katz on Smoke-Filled Rooms
Ellen D. Katz (University of Michigan Law School) has posted Smoke-Filled Rooms on SSRN. Here is the abstract:The smoke-filled room is making a comeback. Condemned as a corrupt, anti-democratic means for nominating candidates to public office, the smoke-filled room has...

Apartment Hunting
We have narrowed our apartment search down to a couple of places and hopefully one of them will work out. We’re also going to have to sell one or both of our cars and some of our furniture because we will probably have to live in a small, high-rise apartment rather than the larger single [...

An ADA right to smoke-free eateries
Thus argues a lawsuit filed by James Bogden against four restaurants in Alexandria, Va., which "seeks to require the restaurants to become smoke-free, arguing that they must accommodate Bogden's disability, coronary artery disease, and eliminate secondhand smoke so he can eat at them...

Landlord Tenant Laws and Provisions
State and City Laws Related to Residential House and Apartment Leases

Smoke and Carbon Monoxide Alarm Failure

Apartment Appointment
Pine Properties Inc. pays $158,000 housing discrimination settlement.

Kidde
Recalls Dual Sensor Smoke Alarms