Patrick Shea
Patrick A. Shea (born February 28, 1948) is a Salt Lake City based lawyer who has taken on many cases related to freedom of the press. He also held office in the United States Department of the Interior.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 publish unsubstantiated claims that demean religious leaders.Shea also represented Massachusetts Democratic Party in seeking to gain enough information to exclude Mitt Romney from running for governor in Massachusetts. He represented Skip Knowles in his case involving being fired by the Salt Lake Tribune for plagiarism. He represented Steven Greenstreet's defense against Kay Anderson's attempts to prevent Greenstreet's use of an interview with Anderson in a documentary film This Divided State. Shea also was one of the lawyers for Brent Jeffs in his sexual molestation suit against his uncle Warren Jeffs. Shea represented, with Ron Yengich and Elizabeth Hunt, Tim DeChristopher the University of Utah climate activist who in 2008 disrupted a Bureau of Land Management, oil and gas auction by out bidding all of the oil and gas representatives. He was tried before Federal Judge Dee Benson and was sentenced to two years of imprisonment in a federal prison. Tim served his time and is now a student at the Harvard Divinity School. Shea is admitted to the bar in the District of Columbia and Utah.
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| Birth date | February 28, 1948 |
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| Birth name | Patrick A. Shea |
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