Law360, New York (November 17, 2015, 10:53 AM ET) -Nuisance has increasingly become the “tort of choice” for plaintiffs in environmental and toxic tort litigation. In addition to other tort claims at their disposal (e.g., strict liability, negligence, trespass), plaintiffs consistently tack on nuisance claims because of the perception that such claims are subject to less stringent legal standar...

1. Maniatis claims that a unified explanation of lightness contrast and lightness constancy is not possible. But there is only one visual system and it exhibits both lightness contrast and lightness constancy. So obviously a unified theory is possible. 2. Maniatis claims there is ultimately no distinction between framework and layer theories, arguing that both theories acknowledge the existence...