injunction granted

A school district leased its field to a baseball team which played night games, shining beacon lights into the windows of the neighboring resident, which disturbed his sleep.

The individual plaintiff resided next to a property where the defendant had built a service station. The plaintiff alleged that headlights from the automobiles using the service station at night shined into his windows, which disturbed his sleep.

Melville Shoe Corp. maintainted a row of nitrogen lights in its building that were turned on at night, shining into the bedroom windows of the neighboring property, which disturbed the sleep of the the owners.

R.C. Maxwell Co., rents the roof of Crossan Co.'s building for the purpose of putting up signs. One of the signs is illuminated and its light shines on the bedroom windows of the neighboring building, the Shelburne hotel. The Shelburne hotel's complaint is that this light trespass from the illuminated sign detrimentally affects their business because it disturbs their guests.

The defendant, the Zoning Board of adjustment (ZBA) of the Town of Conway, denied a permit application for an internally lit sign to plaintiff Asselin because it was in violation of the town's ordinance which banned signs “illuminated from within." The trial court found the sign illumination provision valid and upheld the ZBA’s decision. In this consolidated case, another plaintiff, Cardiff & Company (Cardiff), also objected to the town's ordinance and was enjoined by the town from using his internally illuminated sign. The trial court issued a temporary injunction enforcing the ordinance’s regulation of Cardiff’s sign.

The State of NY and other governmental plantiffs sought to permanently enjoin the Shinnecock Tribe from constructing a casino on a "non-reservation property" in the Town of Southamptom because they claim it would not be in compliance with New York anti-gaming and environmental laws, as well as concerns about the proposed casino development's health and enviromental effects on neighboring landowners and the Town.

Plaintiff Minnesota Vikings Football Stadium, LLC brought suit against defendant Wells Fargo Bank for breach of contract after Wells Fargo began installing mounted illuminated roof top signs on its office towers located next to the Stadium. The contract between parties had allowed rooftop signs for Wells Fargo, but did not state that the signs could be illuminated. Plaintiff alleged defendant's illuminated signs "adversely affected the Stadium's image" and sought a permanent injunction requiring defendant to remove the mounted illuminated signs and prohibiting them from installing other mounted illuminated signs.

The States of California and New Mexico sought to enjoin the United States Bureau of Land Management (BLM) from instituting a rule suspending or delaying (the Suspension Rule) the requirements of the Waste Prevention, Production Subject to Royalties, and Resourse Conservation Rule. A coalition of 17 conservation and tribal citizen groups also brought suit seeking the same preliminary injunction against BLM. The two cases were consolidated for review. Plaintiffs argued that without a preliminary injunction of the Suspension Rule, "they will suffer irreparable harm in the form of waste of publicly-owned natural gas, increased air pollution and related health impacts, exacerbated climate harms, and other environmental injury such as noise and light pollution."