Patrick Shea (lawyer)

Patrick Shea (lawyer)

Patrick Shea (born February 28th, 1948) is a Salt Lake City based lawyer who has taken on many cases related to freedom of the press. He also served for a short time as head of the Bureau of Land Management under President William J. Clinton.

Shea co-authored with Rodney K. Smith "Religion and the Press: Keeping First Amendment Values in Balance", a book which argued that Freedom of the Press had been taken too far in allowing the media to pulish unsubstantiated claims that demean religious leaders. [ [http://deseretnews.com/cgi-bin/cqcgi_plus/@plus.env?CQ_SESSION_KEY=XSJBDZWDTFZI&CQ_CUR_DOCUMENT=9&CQ_TEXT_MAIN=YES "Deseret News", August 26th, 2003] ]

Shea also represented Massachusetts Democrats in seeking to gain enough information to exclude Romney from running for governor in Massachusetts. [ [http://deseretnews.com/cgi-bin/cqcgi_plus/@plus.env?CQ_SESSION_KEY=XSJBDZWDTFZI&CQ_CUR_DOCUMENT=11&CQ_TEXT_MAIN=YES "Deseret News" June 17th, 2002] ] He represented Skip Knowles in his case involving being fired by the Salt Lake Tribune for plagerism. [ [http://deseretnews.com/cgi-bin/cqcgi_plus/@plus.env?CQ_SESSION_KEY=XSJBDZWDTFZI&CQ_CUR_DOCUMENT=8&CQ_TEXT_MAIN=YES "Deseret News", July 24th, 2003] ] and Steven Greenstreet in a case involving Kay Anderson's attempts to revoke his alliance of Greenstreet's use of an interview with Anderson in a documentary film he was making. [ [http://deseretnews.com/cgi-bin/cqcgi_plus/@plus.env?CQ_SESSION_KEY=XSJBDZWDTFZI&CQ_CUR_DOCUMENT=8&CQ_TEXT_MAIN=YES "Deseret News", January 25th, 2005] ] Shea also was one of the lawyers for Brent Jeffs in his sexual molestation suit against his uncle Warren Jeffs. [ [http://www.rickross.com/reference/polygamy/polygamy229.html "Arizona Republic", August 1st, 2004] ]

Education

Shea received his bachelor's degree from Yale University. He then was a Rhodes Scholar at Oxford University. He received his law degree from Harvard Law School in 1975. He has taught courses at Brigham Young University. Since his return to Utah in 2001 Shea has been a member of the University of Utah political science department's faculty.

Prior to becoming head of the BLM Shea was the head of City Creek Canyon Park in Salt Lake City.

Shea is a Roman Catholic.

Shea was the democrat candidate for governor of Utah in 1992 and ran for the United States Senate against Orrin Hatch in 1994.

Sources

* ["Deseret News", February 13th, 2001]
* [http://www.allbusiness.com/government/government-bodies-offices-us-federal-government/11443223-1.html Shea biography]
* [http://www.ijnr.org/aboutus/trustees.htm Institute for Journalism and Natural Resources trustees page]

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