“An Indian couple is being sued in the USA state of California, alleging that their autistic son is a “public nuisance” and created an “as-but unquantified chilling impact” on the in any other case “scorching” native actual property market”, a media report stated. They have been finally pressured to go away their house of seven years in Sunnyvale, one of many main cities that make up Silicon Valley, the San Jose Mercury News reported on Thursday. But the couple was still handed a lawsuit last summer by two couples who lived next door, saying their son’s behavior was having an effect on the neighborhood’s “hot” real estate market and that “people feel constrained in the marketability of their homes as this issue remains unresolved and the nuisance remains unabated”.

“This has been pretty devastating for us, but we are doing our best to cope with it”, Vidyut, an engineer at a Silicon Valley company, was quoted as saying. The case will return to court on Tuesday.

The couple, meanwhile, said they remain focused on helping their son, hoping that this case “will raise awareness about autism and educate the public” about the challenges that families of children with autism face.

When the boy’s parents told Pothen that the boy shouldn’t eat candies , for example, she and others made sure that at Halloween and Easter, neighbors gave the boy other items as treats, including special eggs.

It does sound as though there were behavioral issues involving the child, who reportedly struck a baby, spit at neighbors, and “repeatedly sat on a cat” according to the Mercury News.

Reached Friday night, both Gopal and Agrawal emphatically said they don’t agree with their neighbors’ claims, and declined to comment further on the pending litigation.

“Imagine if lawsuits like this were allowed to proliferate on such allegations”. She claims that the precedent is now set for neighbors to file lawsuits at the “drop of a hat” and ultimately forcing them from being able to be in the streets at any given time. “And all those parents have the right to know what’s at stake for them”, said Escher.

“This is something that should never have gone to court, in my view”, said Rosenbaum, who is also an associate professor at Golden Gate University School of Law. However, some of the neighbors, who are not named in the suit, say the public shouldn’t be too quick to judge the plaintiffs.

Two months later, Gopal and Agrawal moved out of their Arlington Court home to a rental house in another part of Sunnyvale, where they say the neighbors have been more tolerant.

“We have no intention of coming back”, Gopal added.