{"id":719,"date":"2013-12-17T09:35:37","date_gmt":"2013-12-17T13:35:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/jsinger\/?p=719"},"modified":"2013-12-17T09:40:25","modified_gmt":"2013-12-17T13:40:25","slug":"court-shuts-down-sriracha-plant-as-a-nuisance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/jsinger\/2013\/12\/17\/court-shuts-down-sriracha-plant-as-a-nuisance\/","title":{"rendered":"Court finds sriracha hot sauce plant to be a nuisance"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The city of Irwindale in the Los Angeles area brought suit to shut down a plant that manufacturers hot sauce made from sriracha chilis. \u00a0Neighbors complained that the hot sauce manufacturer \u00a0caused them great discomfort from the odors of the plant, that they suffered from headaches, and that the plant made their eyes water and their throats burn. <a href=\"http:\/\/articles.latimes.com\/2013\/oct\/29\/local\/la-me-1030-sriracha-smell-20131030\" target=\"_blank\">read article<\/a>\u00a0 On the other hand some residents suffered no ill effects while others found the effects fleeting and inconsistent. The state superior court judge must have believed the complaints because he issued an injunction ordering the plant to cease the operations that were causing the offensive odors.<a href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/local\/lanow\/la-me-judge-rules-no-sriracha-20131126,0,7404487.story?track=rss&amp;utm_source=dlvr.it&amp;utm_medium=twitter&amp;dlvrit=649324#axzz2lox61G00\" target=\"_blank\">read article<\/a>\u00a0The court did not order the plant closed, just to act to mitigate the problems it was causing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The city of Irwindale in the Los Angeles area brought suit to shut down a plant that manufacturers hot sauce made from sriracha chilis. \u00a0Neighbors complained that the hot sauce manufacturer \u00a0caused them great discomfort from the odors of the plant, that they suffered from headaches, and that the plant made their eyes water and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2199,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[13422],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-719","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nuisance"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5SHi7-bB","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/jsinger\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/719","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/jsinger\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/jsinger\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/jsinger\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2199"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/jsinger\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=719"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/jsinger\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/719\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":725,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/jsinger\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/719\/revisions\/725"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/jsinger\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=719"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/jsinger\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=719"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/jsinger\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=719"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}