Thea Gutman

Jeremiah Gutman, a founding member of the New York Civil Liberties Union and a fixture of the civil rights bar in Manhattan for 50 years, died Wednesday after suffering a heart attack at the Metro-North train station in Hastings-on-Hudson, his daughter Thea Gutman said.
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Gutman still practiced law.
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Gutman, a native of Brooklyn, joined his father's law firm, Levy, Gutman, Goldberg & Kaplan, in 1949.He had earned a Purple Heart while serving in Europe in World War II and had graduated from New York University Law School.

In 1951, in part as a response to what he saw as civil rights violations in Sen.Joseph McCarthy's campaign to root out communist influence, Gutman joined others in founding the New York Civil Liberties Union.He remained a leading figure in that group and was a member of the board of the American Civil Liberties Union at the time of his death.

His political activism extended beyond the courtroom.Last February, he suffered a shoulder injury after being knocked down in a crowd while protesting U.S. policy in Iraq with members of his family at a Manhattan rally.In a case stemming from that incident, the New York Civil Liberties Union has filed suit seeking changes in the way the police handle demonstrations.