THE LEGAL TEAM & ITS TRACK RECORD

The legal team comprises attorneys, research specialists, physicians, scientists, and more. While we have only recently initiated this project, our team includes the following attorneys:  

Lead Attorney, Deana Pollard Sacks

Ms. Sacks has more than 20 major legal publications, received international recognition, and has been cited in over 200 law review articles, treatises, federal and state-published court opinions (including the United States Supreme Court), practice manuals, and statutory annotations.

In addition, her publications have been cited in many prestigious journals, including the Harvard Law Review, the Yale Law Journal, the Cornell Law Review, the California Law Review, the Northwestern University Law Review, the University of Chicago Law Review, the Texas Law Review, and the University of Pennsylvania Law Review. Deana was a tenured law professor for many years and now pursues civil rights cases on behalf of the public.

As a law professor, Ms. Sacks has gathered close colleagues of hers who are anonymous consultants. Three have degrees from Harvard and one from Columbia Law School. They have written leading textbooks on 1) evidence; 2) constitutional law; 3) federal jurisdiction; 4) American history (Antebellum South); 5) environmental treatises.  Collectively this team has well over a hundred law review articles published - many in top journals.

David Sacks

Ms. Deana’s husband, David Sacks of the Sacks Law Firm, is a veteran trial lawyer in Houston, TX, and is rated as a Super Lawyer for 2018 - 2023. 

Being selected as Super Lawyers, Mr. Sacks has earned the respect of his peers as one of the top-rated attorneys in the nation. This selection is based on an evaluation of 12 indicators, including peer recognition and professional achievement in legal practice, and is limited to a small number of attorneys in each state.

He is a certified appellate lawyer with extensive experience in federal and state courts and represents clients with appellate issues in Texas. He also represents clients with business and general litigation issues and will oversee our case's filings and federal procedures (https://www.sackslawfirm.com/david-j-sacks/).

Brad Beers

Brad Beers of the Beers Law Firm is a Sack’s colleague and works closely with the Sacks. Mr. Beers is a University of Texas School of Law graduate, has been a trial lawyer for 43 years, and was a prosecutor for decades in Harris County. After earning a bachelor’s degree in business administration from East Texas State University (now Texas A&M at Commerce) and a law degree from the University of Texas, Beers served as an assistant district attorney in Harris County, Texas (https://www.texasbar.com/AM/Template.cfm?Section=Find_A_Lawyer&template=/Customsource/MemberDirectory/MemberDirectoryDetail.cfm&ContactID=222085).

Both Mr. and Ms. Sacks and Mr. Beers are admitted to the US Supreme Court.

Fred Galves

Mr. Galves graduated from Harvard Law School in 1986 and became a full-time law professor in 2001. Ms. Sacks met Mr. Galves at her first AALS annual conference in 2001 and they have been close friends ever since, with Deana regularly consulting Mr. Galves on issues of evidence and federal civil procedure. As a law professor, Mr. Galves authored many law review articles and books (and even created legal apps), including EVIDENCE: A CONTEMPORARY APPROACH with co-authors Syd Beckman and Susan Crump (currently in its 3rd edition, 2016), RULES OF CIVIL PROCEDURE: REFERENCE AND STUDY GUIDE (2018), and GENESIS RELOADED: QUESTIONING THE LITERAL INTERPRETATION OF THE BIBLE (2012). Mr. Galves is a critical asset to the Lord Advocates legal team and provides sage advice regularly.
To view Fred’s curriculum vitae, see here : https://www.lordadvocates.org/s/Fred-Galves-CV.pdf

Tony Vacca (Canadian Team)

Canadian attorney Tony Vacca was co-counsel in a proposed Canadian class proceeding, filed in 2016, with urgency, seeking to bring an end to the aerial spraying in Canada on the basis that such spraying was profoundly harmful to the Canadian environment and destructive to human health, and as such, contravened the provisions of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms.  The case was ultimately dismissed in November 2020 after 4.5 years of litigation.  The Plaintiff can seek to appeal this dismissal, where the Plaintiff can present the Court with fresh, robust evidence to substantiate its claims. The citation for the Canadian case is Pelletier v. Canada, 2020 FC 1019.

 Mr. Vacca is coordinating with the GenSeven US lawsuit with a view to a potential, eventual appeal, and which appeal would add international momentum to GenSeven’s US legal initiatives.