Lawsuit Against DPR
2017 – On behalf of farmworker Juana Vasquez, Californians for Pesticide Reform and Pesticide Action Network North America, a lawsuit was filed against…
Continue Reading →2017 – On behalf of farmworker Juana Vasquez, Californians for Pesticide Reform and Pesticide Action Network North America, a lawsuit was filed against…
Continue Reading →2007 – The Center for Environmental Health settles case with Marvin Engineering Company requiring the company to eliminate use of a cancer causing solvent…
Continue Reading →2005 – Arvin residents exposed to fumigant metam sodium settle case for $775,000.00…
Continue Reading →2000 – Honored by The Impact Fund for my work in reducing toxic air emissions throughout California…
Continue Reading →1999 – Successful case resulting in reduction of toxic emissions by 75% recognized by The Impact Fund…
Continue Reading →1998 – On behalf of Group to Eliminate Toxics, this lawsuit challenged Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory's approval of a mixed waste facility containing radioactive thorium…
Continue Reading →1995 – I represented Friends of Endangered Species who challenged the first Habitat Conservation Plan approval in the country that allowed the taking of a federally…
Continue Reading →1997 – PUEBLO honors Michael Freund with Environmental Justice Award at its 8th Annual Community Dinner for successfully reducing lead emissions in Oakland from American Brass & Iron Foundry…
Continue Reading →1995 – PUEBLO members demonstrate against false manufacturer Owens Brockway in Oakland. PUEBLO filed a lawsuit as the company's emissions were exposed…
Continue Reading →1993 – Both my client People United for a Better Oakland ("PUEBLO") and the California Attorney General joined forces in a lawsuit against American Brass & Iron Foundry…
Continue Reading →1992 – Michael Freund Featured in The Recorder Legal Newspaper…
Continue Reading →1990 – A lawsuit was filed on behalf of several groups, including Berkeley Citizens for a Toxic Free Environment challenging the University of California's plans to construct…
Continue Reading →1990 – I represented the recycling community whose objective was to increase recycling programs in Alameda County. Opponents of Measure D wrote in the ballot…
Continue Reading →1990 – Represented Citizens for a Better Environment ("CBE") in issuing six Notices of Violation pursuant to Proposition 65 in response large emissions of toxic…
Continue Reading →1989 – In what may have been the largest environmental justice case brought in the Central Valley for its time, an African-American and Hispanic community prevailed…
Continue Reading →1988 – Lawsuit results in first EIR in the country regarding a biotechnology facility…
Continue Reading →1985 – Along with several other attorneys, successfully defended UC Berkeley anti-apartheid protesters charged with trespass at President David Gardner's office on Berkeley campus…
Continue Reading →1980s – Taxpayer case against the West Contra Costa Sanitary District challenging the diversion of public money for a waste to energy plant…
Continue Reading →1982 – Immediately out of law school I represented Friends of the River before Justices Scalia, Ginsberg, and Bazelon at the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals in Washington, D.C. challenging an approval by…
Continue Reading →1980s – I represented Neighbors for Clean Air in a nuisance case against a Berkeley foundry, Pacific Steel Casting Company at numerous administrative hearings before the Bay Area Air Quality Management District…
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