ORLANDO -- The Orlando Sentinel and the South Florida Sun-Sentinel dropped
their challenge Monday to a state law restricting access to autopsy photos
that passed after the death of NASCAR driver Dale Earnhardt.

Newspapers sought access to the photos as questions arose over how
Earnhardt died in the last-lap crash at the 2001 Daytona 500 and whether
better safety equipment might have saved him.

Charlotte H. Hall, vice president and editor of the Orlando Sentinel, said
the papers dropped the case because it would be difficult to win after the
U.S. Supreme Court ruled in a separate case about photographs of former
deputy White House counsel Vince Foster.

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