[Congressional Record Volume 168, Number 166 (Friday, October 21, 2022)]
[Extensions of Remarks]
[Pages E1073-E1074]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




 RECOGNIZING MR. DAVID PAUL HORAN'S 80 YEARS OF COMMUNITY SERVICE AND 
                         LEGAL ACCOMPLISHMENTS

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                         HON. CARLOS A. GIMENEZ

                               of florida

                    in the house of representatives

                        Friday, October 21, 2022

  Mr. GIMENEZ. Madam Speaker, I rise today to recognize Key West native 
Mr. David Paul Horan for his community leadership and notable 
achievements in admiralty and maritime law.
  David Horan has spent almost 50 years serving on various community 
boards and commissions in the Florida Keys. Since 1973, he has served 
as a Director of the Greater Key West Chamber of Commerce. Other 
leadership roles have included serving on the Key West Military Affairs 
Committee, the Florida Keys National Marine Advisory Sanctuary Counsel, 
and the Special Environmental Counsel for Monroe County. In 2001, Mr. 
Horan was inducted into the Key West Chamber of Commerce Hall of Fame, 
Key West's highest community service award.
  In addition to his work serving the community, David is an 
accomplished lawyer. Admitted to the Florida Bar in 1972, David 
specializes in complex federal and state litigation. Much of his career 
has been dedicated to protecting local interests against excessive 
regulation. One pro-bono case of David's, Young v. DCA, was monumental: 
the Florida Supreme Court's opinion reversed almost twenty years of 
decisions on the ``burden of proof'' issue, significantly restricting 
the state of Florida's authority to overturn local governmental 
decisions. David has also represented many commercial fishermen in 
addition to salvors of historic shipwrecks, generally centuries-old 
Spanish galleons sunk along Florida's coast.
  Another of David's notable legal victories came in his successful 
oral argument in the

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1982 Supreme Court case Florida Dept. of State v. Treasure Salvors, 
Inc, which concerned the ownership of salvage from the 1622 Spanish 
Galleon Nuestra Senora de Atocha. The Supreme Court rejected the 
State's claim to the property and upheld the transfer of artifacts to 
Treasure Salvors.
  What an honor it is to recognize David Horan for his phenomenal 
career in law and life of service to the Florida Keys and Floridians 
across the state. I wish David, his wife, five children, and many 
grandchildren all the best as he begins a ninth decade of a very full 
life.

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