Frank Askin, a Rutgers Law School professor for 50 years and a longtime general counsel of the American Civil Liberties Union, died at age 89 on July 1.

He spent his career fighting for individual rights, winning courtroom victories for activists who sought to distribute leaflets in shopping malls and for condominium residents seeking to post political signs in front of their homes. In one of his best-known cases, he won a ruling in 1991 for Richard Kreimer, a homeless man banned from the Morristown public library because his body odor was deemed offensive, although that decision was overturned on appeal.

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