MODE & Equity

M.O.D.E. & EQUITY examines a growing but largely unaddressed crisis: families suffering real, ongoing harm from toxic mold exposure—yet unable to find relief through medicine, housing enforcement, or traditional personal-injury law.   The book introduces M.O.D.E. (Mold-Originated Disease & Exposure) as a legal-epidemiological framework that explains why mold-related cases so often fall through the cracks. Medical systems treat symptoms but avoid environmental causation. Housing authorities document surface-level compliance without addressing chronic conditions. Legal systems demand discrete incidents and calculable damages—while mold harm is continuous, multifactorial, and ongoing.   Rather than approaching mold injury as a failed tort claim, M.O.D.E. & EQUITY reframes the issue as one of conditions, not incidents—making a case for equitable jurisdiction as the proper legal forum. Drawing on principles of nuisance, habitability, spoliation, and injunctive relief, the book e