A couple whose solar home in Palo...

A couple whose solar home in Palo Alto has been thrown into shadow by their neighbors’ trees have found that there is no right to sunlight in California. Stanford Professor Rudolph Sher and his wife, Bonnie, sued their campus neighbors, P. Herbert and Gloria Leiderman, saying trees on the Leidermans’ property were a “private nuisance.” Santa Clara County Superior Court Judge Taketsugu Takei said in a ruling that there is no right to solar access in the Golden State. “Although the court finds that the complaints of the Shers are very real, both in the aspect of emotional distress and the reduction of potential property value,” he wrote, “the injuries . . . are not ones that afforded protection or recognized as legally enforceable rights in a court of law.”