Sun

Professors at Stanford are fighting for their sun rights. An engineering professor sued neighboring psychiatric professors because trees were blocking the number of rays he gets each day.

Professor William Sher claimed that the trees of Professor Herbert and Gloria Leiderman cast a permanent shadow over his home each winter and are a "public nuisance."

Yet Judge Taketsugu Taket ruled that there is no right of solar access in California. He wrote, "Although the court finds that the complaint, of the Shers are very real both in the aspect of emotional distress and the reduction of potential property value, the injuries...are not ones that are afforded protection...in a court of law."

The decision upset Sher. "There are so many people out there who've had the same troubles."

Leiderman felt justice was done. "They just don't seem to like trees."