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1967 Honors Graduate of Harvard College. B.A. in American Government, with concentration in American Constitutional Law, International Law and United States Foreign Policy;

1967 Harvard College Nominee for The Rhodes Scholarship to Oxford;

1970 Graduate of Harvard School of Law;

1968 Chief Research Assistant of Prof, Jerome Cohen (Chair of Harvard Law School's Department of International Law) in the preparation of Dr. Cohen's book on the illegality, under International Law, of the United States War in Viet Nam;

1968 Director of The Nigerian/Biafran Relief Commission under Harvard Professor Milton Katz (then President of the Association of International Jurists) responsible for successfully negotiating permission to fly health supplies into Biafra directly between Presidents Ojuku and Otue;

1969-70 Editor of The Harvard Civil Rights Law Review;

1970 "Point Briefer" to the United States Senate on The Cooper-Church Amendment (Selected by Harvard Law School Professor Abe Chayes, the author of the Bill to cut off all Congressional funding of the Viet Nam War sponsored by U.S. Senators Frank Church and Cooper);

Cases Litigated while still at Harvard School of Law:

* Eisenstadt v. Baird (striking down, as unconstitutional, the Massachusetts State Anti-Birth Control Law on behalf of the Massachusetts Planned Parenthood Association before the First Circuit Court of Appeals);

* In re: Pappas (asserting, for the first time in American Jurisprudence, the First Amendment Right of American News Journalists to Protect the Identity of Confidential News Sources from Compulsory Disclosure to Criminal Grand Juries, securing review by the U.S. Supreme Court);

* 1970-1972 Constitutional Trial Attorney with the #1 Trial Law Firm in America (Cahill, Gordon, Sonnett, Rheindle & Ohl on Wall Street) as First Amendment Trial Counsel under famed First Amendment Attorney
Floyd Abrams on: The Pentagon Papers Case (United States v. The New York Times, securing the right to publish the 47 volumes of the top secret internal Pentagon Study of The Origins of The Viet Nam War); United States v. Earl Caldwell (the United States Supreme Court Case generating two-dozen state and federal statutes recognizing the First Amendment Right to Protect the Identity of Confidential News Sources from Compulsory Disclosure to Criminal Grand Juries) and The New York Times v. The Jewish Defense League (securing the right of The New York Times to refuse to publish a paid advertisement proffered by The Jewish Defense League).

1972 Legal Counsel in Cortrite v. Resor (establishing the First Amendment Right of American Enlisted Servicemen to Publish a Paid Advertisement in The New York Times Protesting the Viet Nam War Without Reprisals by The United States Military);

1972 Director of Senator George McGovern's successful Presidential Primary Campaign in the 14th Congressional District of New York;

1972 Assistant Presidential Campaign Director for the National Democratic Party in New York State under Frank Mankowitz, Gary Hart and Pierre Salinger;

1973 Trial Counsel in the Boston Law Firm of Attorney F. Lee Bailey (Special Counsel to The Firm in United States v. James McCord, et al. ["The Watergate Burglary Case"] securing James McCord's Letter to Judge James Sirrica "blowing the whistle" on President Richard Nixon and "The Plumbers' Unit", leading to the Appointment of Special Prosecutor Archibald Cox of Harvard Law School, the Resignation of Richard Nixon and the federal criminal indictment and conviction of United States Attorney General John Mitchell);

1973-1975 Harvard Divinity School - Masters of Divinity Degree and then Ph.D. Degree Candidate in Comparative Social Ethics;

1975-1985 Chief Counsel to the United States Jesuit Headquarters' National Office of Social Ministry in Washington, D.C.;

1975 Chief Counsel in Karen Silkwood v. The Kerr-McGee Nuclear Corporation before the United States District Court for the Western District of Oklahoma (winning a $10.5 million Civil Judgment against the American Private Nuclear Industryand stopping the construction of all new private nuclear facilities in the United States from 1979 to the present);

1976 Amicus Curiae Counsel to the National Office of the American Civil Liberties Union in the case of Mancari v. Morton (securing the right of the American Bureau of Indian Affairs [BIA] to engage in racially discriminatory hiring on behalf of Native Americans);

1979 Chief Counsel in The Three-Mile Island Case (securing a federal civil injunction stopping the Federal Nuclear Regulatory Commission from pumping radioactive effluents from the damaged Three-Mile Island Nuclear Facility in Pennsylvania into the Susquehanna river and securing a federal judicially-supervised clean-up of the facility);

1984 Chief Counsel in The American Sanctuary Case before the United States District Court for the Southern District of Texas (declaring unconstitutional the arrest and detention by the Reagan-Bush Administration of Catholic American Sanctuary Movement workers transporting Salvadorian and Guatemalan Political Refugees from the Mexican-United States Border to San Antonio to apply for Political Asylum);

1985- 1995 General Counsel to The Christic Institute of Washington, D.C.;

1985 Chief Counsel in The Greensboro Civil Rights Act Case (winning a $1 million Federal Civil Rights Act civil judgment against The Ku Klux Klan, the American Nazi Party and The City of Greensboro, North Carolina for the November 1976 murder of six Civil Rights Workers by members of "The United Racist Front" (all of whom were acquitted by an all-white jury of murder); and

1986 Chief Counsel if The Iran/Contra Civil RICO Case filed in May of 1986(six full months before the public revelations of Attorney General Edwin Meese) against U.S. Air Force Major General Richard V. Secord; Middle Eastern Businessman Albert Hakim; Army Major General John K. Singlaub;Costa Rica Rancher John Hull and 20 other "Associates" of Reagan/Bush Administration National Security Council Deputy Director Oliver North and his "Off-The-Shelf Enterprise" which led to the "Iran/Contra Scandal" and the Appointment of Special Prosecutor Lawrence Walsh.

1976-1980 Chair of the Washington National Inter-Religious Staff Council Task Force on Religious Liberty and Civil Rights; 1975-76 General Counsel & Lobbyist for the National Campaign to Stop Senate Bill One (New Federal Criminal Code proposed by Richard Nixon and John Mitchell);

1980-1992 Member of the National Board of Directors of The National Fund for Constitution Rights in Washington, D.C. (Chair 1990-1992);

1977-78 Special Assistant to The United States Congressional Research Service Science & Technology Division Study on Extra-Terrestrial Intelligence and The Phenomenon of Unidentified Flying Objects;

1978 Lecturer to the Search for Extra-Terrestrial Intelligence (SETI) Project of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in California on "The Theological Implications of the Search for Extra-Terrestrial Intelligence";

1978 Lobbyist for Reinstituting full funding to the SETI Program after cuts in SETI budget in 1978;

1979 Sponsor of the Request that the Washington National Inter-Religious Staff Council (consisting of the Office Directors of the Washington National Religious Offices of all 54 major religious denominations in the United States) institute and finance a major research project on The Theological Implications of Extra-Terrestrial Intelligence and the UFO Phenomenon;

1994 Chief Counsel to Dr. John Mack (Founder & Chair of the Department of Clinical Psychiatry of Harvard Medical School) before the Harvard University Faculty Committee investigating Dr. Mack as a result of his 1994 publication of Abduction: Human Encounters With Aliens;

2000 to Present General Counsel to the Institute for Cooperation in Space (ICIS) dedicated to banning all weapons from space which might be used as offensive weapons against Extra-Terrestrial civilizations;

1999-2000 Director of The Strategic Initiative to Identify The New Paradigm of The Gorbachev Foundation's State of the World Forum;

Attorney Sheehan has taught Constitutional Law at Antioch School of Law in Washington, D.C. and Constitutional History at the Undergraduate Level at the University of California at Santa Barbara. He has lectured at Harvard School of Law; Yale Law School; Notre Dame School of Law and Cornell Law School.

Attorney Sheehan presently lives in Santa Cruz, California with his wife of 25 years: Sara M. Nelson (the Labor Secretary of the National Organization for Women (N.O.W.) under both Karen DeCrow and Elenore Smeal; the National Executive Director of The Christic Institute; the National Executive Director of the M.U.S.E. Foundation (Musicians United for Safe Energy); and the former National Executive Director of Mikhail Gorbechev's State of the World Forum.


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