Under the heading “You’ve got to be kidding me,” the parents of an 11-year-old autistic boy in California are fighting a lawsuit by neighbors who say that their son’s uncontrolled behavior is a public nuisance that has lowered their property values.
But the suit is deadly serious. It’s already been dragging on for more than year in Santa Clara County Superior Court, raising alarm among advocates for people with autism and other disabilities, who fear it could create a terrible precedent and trigger copycat suits.
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