Wi-Fi Anxiety: Man Sues Neighbour to Shut Off Electronics

Arthur Firstenberg, who says he is hypersensitive to certain frequencies of electromagnetic radiation, saw the house at the end of a narrow lane as a refuge from physical and neurological symptoms that have plagued him for three decades. It’s been difficult because of my electromagnetic sensitivities, he said. I had a lot of difficulty finding a house that I could be comfortable in. So in September 2008, he bought the home on Barela Street, a few blocks from the newly redeveloped downtown rail yard here. But last October, when a friend of his rented a house on the next block that backed up to Firstenberg’s property, the familiar waves of nausea, vertigo, body aches, dizziness, heart arrhythmia and insomnia returned — all, he says, because she was using an iPhone, a laptop computer, a wireless router and dimmer switches. So he sued Monribot in state district court, seeking $530,000 in damages and an injunction to force her to turn off the electronics