- 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 theBureau of Land Management under PresidentWilliam 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 uncleWarren 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 aRhodes Scholar atOxford University . He received his law degree fromHarvard Law School in 1975. He has taught courses atBrigham Young University . Since his return to Utah in 2001 Shea has been a member of theUniversity 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]References
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