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| '''Victor John Yannacone''' is an ] attorney Victor Yannacone (born March 10, 1936) is a controversial, pioneering environmental attorney, who played leading roles in successful campaigns to ban the use of DDT, preserve the Florissant fossil beds, <ref>https://www.pbssocal.org/redefine/message-from-the-eocene-re-reading-the-florissant-fossil-beds</ref> and obtain benefits from the Veterans Administration and the chemical company war contractors for the Vietnam combat veterans exposed to dioxin contaminated ''Agent Orange'' herbicides. <ref>Flammer, Joe, "An historic victory for Yannacone," The Long Island Advance, February 7, 1991</ref> | '''Victor John Yannacone''' is an ] attorney Victor Yannacone (born March 10, 1936) is a controversial, pioneering environmental attorney, who played leading roles in successful campaigns to ban the use of DDT, preserve the Florissant fossil beds, <ref>https://www.pbssocal.org/redefine/message-from-the-eocene-re-reading-the-florissant-fossil-beds</ref> and obtain benefits from the Veterans Administration and the chemical company war contractors for the Vietnam combat veterans exposed to dioxin contaminated ''Agent Orange'' herbicides. <ref>Flammer, Joe, "An historic victory for Yannacone," The Long Island Advance, February 7, 1991</ref> | ||
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Victor John Yannacone is an environmental attorney Victor Yannacone (born March 10, 1936) is a controversial, pioneering environmental attorney, who played leading roles in successful campaigns to ban the use of DDT, preserve the Florissant fossil beds, and obtain benefits from the Veterans Administration and the chemical company war contractors for the Vietnam combat veterans exposed to dioxin contaminated Agent Orange herbicides.
Since the DDT litigation in 1969, he has been associated with the motto "sue the bastards."
Early legal career
Yannacone was admitted to the New York State Bar in October, 1959 and immediately began his career as a trial lawyer. In addition to trying workers compensation claims for injured workers and the victims of occupational diseases, he began to try personal-injury liability cases in the New York State Supreme Court and represent indigent criminal defendants referred by the NAACP and Court pro bono.
In January, 1971, Yannacone and his father Victor J Yannacone established Yannacone & Yannacone, Professional Corporation. Victor J. Yannacone died in 1980 and Victor John Yannacone, jr. continues the firm as a solo practitioner, advocate, trial lawyer, and litigator.
DDT
The Wisconsin hearings
In December of 1968, the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources opened a hearing on a petition , brought on by the "Queen of the Prairie," Lorrie Otto and the Citizens Natural Resources Association (CNRA) under an unusual law that allowed a Wisconsin resident to seek a “declaratory ruling" to decide whether or not DDT should be considered a water pollutant.
Testimony began on December 2, 1968 with Wisconsin’s U.S. Senator Gaylord Nelson serving as the first witness. The celebrated conservationist testified that a ban on DDT would “represent the first ray of hope on the horizon for endangered species and perhaps man for many generations to come.”
Patents and inventions
Yannacone developed a system for monitoring the neoplastic physiologic processes which indicate potential for cancer by using non-invasive infrared imaging to identify angiogenic blood vessels not under control of the sympathetic nervous system in the human breast and beneath areas of the skin which raise suspician of melanoma.
“System and method for identifying and classifying dynamic thermodynamic processes in mammals and discriminating between and among such processes: The Method of Integrals”
“Method and apparatus for high resolution dynamic digital infrared imaging: The Differential Method“,
By combining internet access to real time data with geolocation and geofencing, Yannacone developed a system for providing safety information to ships at sea and vehicles on the roads and rails.
“Collection and Distribution of Maritime Data”
"System and Method for Dynamic Data Mining",
In 1979, during the Agent Orange litigation, Victor Yannacone and his wife Carol A. Yannacone designed and helped build three relational databases — CHAOS (Case histories of Agent Orange Survivors), HOSPIT (Helpless Overmedicated Sick People In Trouble) and DOOM (Doctors Orders and Other Mistakes) — and a minicomputer based object oriented database management system (OODBMS). The relational database management system permitted rapid searching, sorting, and collecting data on individual veterans and associated their service in Southeast Asia at particular places, dates, and times with their individual physiological injuries and disease.
References
- https://www.pbssocal.org/redefine/message-from-the-eocene-re-reading-the-florissant-fossil-beds
- Flammer, Joe, "An historic victory for Yannacone," The Long Island Advance, February 7, 1991
- "Environment: Sue the Bastards". Time. 18 October 1971. Retrieved 24 June 2018.
- https://iapps.courts.state.ny.us/attorneyservices/wicket/page/DetailsPage?3
- https://apps.dos.ny.gov/publicInquiry/EntityListDisplay
- https://wchf.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/Otto-Article-Queen-of-the-Prairie.pdf
- Berry, Bill, Banning DDT: How Citizen Activists in Wisconsin Led the Way, Wisconsin Historical Society Press, (2014)
- Henkin, Harmon, Martin Merta, James Staples, The Environment, he Establishment, and the Law, Houghton Mifflin Company (1970)
- https://ppubs.uspto.gov/dirsearch-public/print/downloadBasicPdf/7408156?requestToken=eyJzdWIiOiI3NDFkYjE0Yi0wZDE0LTRhYTEtYjgwOC00YmE4YTE3ZjkzNjQiLCJ2ZXIiOiI2YmQ4ZDJkZC1jM2U1LTRmMmUtOWMxNy03YjczZTY0ODQ4YWYiLCJleHAiOjB9
- https://ppubs.uspto.gov/dirsearch-public/print/downloadBasicPdf/8233968?requestToken=eyJzdWIiOiI3NDFkYjE0Yi0wZDE0LTRhYTEtYjgwOC00YmE4YTE3ZjkzNjQiLCJ2ZXIiOiJlYmFjMWRmMy03MGY2LTQ3NTItODFjNi0zODgzMjY1NThhMjIiLCJleHAiOjB9
- https://ppubs.uspto.gov/dirsearch-public/print/downloadBasicPdf/7286914?requestToken=eyJzdWIiOiI3NDFkYjE0Yi0wZDE0LTRhYTEtYjgwOC00YmE4YTE3ZjkzNjQiLCJ2ZXIiOiJlYmFjMWRmMy03MGY2LTQ3NTItODFjNi0zODgzMjY1NThhMjIiLCJleHAiOjB9
- https://ppubs.uspto.gov/dirsearch-public/print/downloadBasicPdf/8332087?requestToken=eyJzdWIiOiI3NDFkYjE0Yi0wZDE0LTRhYTEtYjgwOC00YmE4YTE3ZjkzNjQiLCJ2ZXIiOiJlYmFjMWRmMy03MGY2LTQ3NTItODFjNi0zODgzMjY1NThhMjIiLCJleHAiOjB9
- https://yannalaw.com/about/major-litigation/agent-orange/attorney-builds-agent-orange-relational-databases/
External links
- Link to 1993 Interview transcript
- Brief biographical sketch
- Beginnings of EDF campaign with Charles Wurster