HBO airing ‘No Accident,’ documentary on legal team that sued Charlottesville rally organizers and won
The film features interviews with and behind-the-scenes footage of the attorneys, their team, and six of the nine plaintiffs
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Roberta Kaplan, who represented E. Jean Carroll in her suit against Donald Trump, referred to the judicial overhaul plan as 'the mishegas going on in Israel'
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Fast Forward David Duke To Judge: I Won’t Hand Over My Charlottesville Emails
Lawyers who are suing white supremacists for conspiring to foster and carry out violence at last summer’s “Unite the Right” rally are trying to get some papers from former KKK Grand Wizard David Duke — but he says it’s too much trouble, and too expensive. Roberta Kaplan, who successfully argued before the Supreme Court to…
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Fast Forward LISTEN: Landmark Marriage Equality Lawyer Suing White Supremacists
The lawyer who argued the landmark Supreme Court case that made gay marriage legal in the U.S. is going after the organizers of Charlottesville’s “Unite the Right” rally. In a Washington Post podcast, Robert Kaplan explained the origins and nature of her court case against 26 organizers of the August rally, which led to the…
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Fast Forward Roberta Kaplan, Lawyer Who Won Edie Windsor Gay Marriage Case, Launches Firm
Edith Windsor’s lawyer is hanging up a shingle. Roberta Kaplan, the attorney who represented Windsor in the 2013 Supreme Court victory that helped lead the way to the nationwide legalization of same-sex marriage, is leaving the mega-firm Paul Weiss to set up her own company. So far, things have been going well at Kaplan’s new…
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