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Dan Paul, 85, leading lawyer for press freedom

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February 2, 2010 | Dennis Hevesi | Copyright

Dan Paul, 85,

leading lawyer

for press freedom

NEW YORK - Dan Paul, a leading First Amendment and environmental lawyer who successfully argued a major press-freedom case before the US Supreme Court, died Jan. 24 at his home in Miami. He was 85.

The cause was Parkinson's disease, said a cousin, Barbara Hansen.

Mr. Paul was the chief lawyer representing the Miami Herald in 1974 when the Supreme Court ruled, 9-0, in Miami Herald Publishing Co. v. Tornillo. At issue was a Florida statute that required the state's newspapers to grant a "right of reply" to political candidates criticized in their pages. The Herald argued that the law violated the First …

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