Edward de Grazia, Lawyer Who Fought Censorship, Is Dead at 86

The cause was complications of Alzheimer’s disease, his son David said.
<P></P>A fierce civil libertarian who taught for 30 years at the Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law at Yeshiva University in New York, Mr. de Grazia defined his life’s work as defending “morally defiant artists” against “reactionary politicians and judges.”
<P></P>In 1955, the Post Office Department used an 1873 law to seize a rare volume of “Lysistrata,” a play written 2,400 years

Read more ...