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Victor Rabinowitz, a New York lawyer who represented leftist causes and whose clients included the Black Panthers and Fidel Castro, has died at 96. He was at the forefront of constitutional issues ranging from McCarthy-era politics to the civil rights struggle.
In 1960, Rabinowitz's firm was hired by Castro to defend his nation's nationalising of United States-owned property.
Rabinowitz won by arguing that the internal affairs of other countries could not be questioned by US courts.
