Michael D. Diederich Jr.
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361 Rte. 210, Stony Point, NY 10980
About Michael D. Diederich Jr.
Practice Areas
- Employment
Education
- Pace University School of Law, White Plains, New York, 1992LL.M.
- Major: Environmental Law
- Honors: National Environmental Moot Court Competition, Judge
- Lewis and Clark College Northwestern School of Law, Portland, Oregon, 1980J.D.
- University of Vermont, Burlington, VermontB.S., Bachelor of Science
- Major: Environmental Science
- Command & General Staff College, U.S. Army, 1999
Representative Cases
- County of Westchester v. Town of Greenwich, Conn., 793 F.Supp. 1195 (S.D.N.Y. 1992)
- Franchino v. ArchCare
- Fratello v. Archdiocese
- Sherman v. Town of Chester, __ F.3d __ (2d Circuit, 2014)
- United Haulers v. Oneida-Herkimer Solid Waste Management Authority, 550 U.S. 330 (2007)
Classes and Seminars
- Business Law Instructor, Central Texas College, Overseas Division, Nuremburg, Germany, 1987
Qualifications
Bar Admissions
- Massachusetts, 1981
- New York, 1981
- U.S. Court of Appeals 2nd Circuit, 1989
- U.S. District Court Southern District of New York, 1983
- U.S. Supreme Court, 1991
Other Affiliations
- New York Bar Association (Member, Environmental Law Section)
- American Bar Association (Member)
- Association of Trial Lawyers of America (Member)
Past Positions
- County Attorney's Office, New City, New York, Assistant County Attorney for Environmental Affairs, 1992 - 1994
- Westchester County, Counsel, 1989 - 1992
- Witte, Lestz & Hogan, P.C., Bronxville, New York, Associate, 1988 - 1989
- Bavaria, West Germany, Judge Advocate General Officer, 1984 - 1987
- Nyack, New York, Private Practice of Law, 1981 - 1984
- Westchester County Litigation Bureau, White Plains, New York, Special Counsel and Assistant County Attorney
- US Army Reserves, Retired Lieutenant Colonel
Articles
Published Works
- Law of War and Ecology - A Proposal for a Workable Approach to Protecting the Environment Through the Law of War, 136 Military Law Review 141, Summer, 1992
- Article: County Acquires Prescriptive Easement Over Runway Airspace, Footnotes, p. 5, July, 1992
- Does Garbage Have Standing? Democracy, Flow Control and Solid Waste Management, 11 Pace Environmental Law Review 801, Fall, 1993
- Treatise Chapter: Municipal Solid Waste Management, New York Environmental Law Series (Lawyers Cooperative, 1995)
- Article: "Law: Can Municipalities Manage Their Own Solid Waste", ENVIRONMENT Magazine (May 1995)
- Article: "Practitioner's Perspective: In Light of Carbon: Who Owns Municipal Solid Waste?" THE NEW YORK ENVIRONMENTAL LAW REPORT (April 1995)
- Article: "For the Government Counsel--Keep Democratic Rule over Trash", ABA Section of Natural Resources, Energy and Environmental Law, Nov/Dec 1994
- Article: "Garbage and the Constitution: Democracy Collides with the Commerce Clause", N.Y.S. Bar Association's Environmental Law Section Journal, May 1994
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