Nestle v. City of Santa Monica

*924Opinion

MOSK, J.

Appellants are 37 of over 700 plaintiffs who brought suit against the City of Santa Monica (“defendant”) for injuries alleged to have been suffered by virtue of defendant’s operation of the Santa Monica Airport.1 This action vividly demonstrates the difficulties encountered in en-grafting traditional common law theories of recovery onto proceedings involving injuries peculiarly contemporary in nature. (See Kramon, Noise Control: Traditional Remedies and a Proposal for Federal Action (1969) 7 Harv. J. Legis. 533; Malley, The Supersonic Transport’s Sonic Boom Cost: A Common Law…