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Alan Dershowitz
Alan Morton Dershowitz is an American lawyer and academic. He is a scholar of United States constitutional law and criminal law. He has also been described as a noted civil libertarian.

Jeffrey Epstein

Judge Repeatedly Loses Patience with Alan Dershowitz’s Lawyer During Hearing on Jeffrey Epstein Files

A federal judge repeatedly lost her patience with an attorney representing Alan Dershowitz during a Tuesday hearing over two separate but related defamation cases concerning Jeffrey Epstein and his alleged global elite-servicing sex trafficking operation.

The specific subject of the hearing was a recent Dershowitz motion to modify a years-old protective order in the settled defamation case between Epstein survivor Virginia Roberts Giuffre and Ghislaine Maxwell, Epstein’s alleged groomer. While the actual controversy between Giuffre and Maxwell ended in 2015, Giuffre and her legal team have fought for years—occasionally alongside attorneys for the media–to unseal the documents in that case.

The process of sealing, unsealing and eventually releasing those documents has been controlled by a protective order issued by the Southern District of New York (SDNY) in 2016. A pitched legal battle has been fought in recent years to have those documents released to the public due to the highly sensitive allegations they likely contain.

Those documents, colloquially known as just some of many secret Epstein files controlled by various courts, are widely believed to contain the names of many high-profile men in politics, finance and the arts who are presumably involved in the alleged child sex-trafficking scheme.

Giuffre has long alleged that Dershowitz, who previously worked as of Epstein’s lawyers, was one of the men who took part in Epstein’s alleged network of young girls. She also alleges that Dershowitz had sex with her approximately six times. Dershowitz has consistently maintained his innocence and repeatedly called Giuffre a liar. He said they’ve never met.

In early 2019, Giuffre sued Dershowitz over his “false and defamatory” denials of her sexual abuse claims. Dershowitz counter-sued for defamation in late 2019. In a recent motion, he asked for access to the full tranche of files from the original lawsuit against Maxwell as well as additional discovery documents from both Giuffre “and others” because, he says, those files will help his defense.

This background brings us to the controversy Tuesday.

“This is not an issue of public disclosure,” Dershowitz attorney Howard Cooper told the court during Tuesday’s hearing. Cooper said that his client simply wants to join the extant protective order—in other words, he wants to be able to access the documents—from the Maxwell case. This is proper, Cooper argued, because that protective order was “not the final word” and because the Second Circuit Court of Appeals may have changed the whole issue of party reliance when issuing the ruling to release the files after Epstein’s summer 2019 arrest.

Senior U.S. District Judge Loretta Preska was unimpressed.

The judge interrupted Cooper to note that the original protective order was clear that it was for one case and one case only: the defamation controversy between Giuffre and Maxwell.

Cooper responded that Giuffre has repeatedly made claims against Dershowitz that implicate the files in the protective order—including that Dershowitz engaged in a sex-trafficking conspiracy with Epstein. The attorney went on to note that his client would continue to seek the release of those files because they believe Giuffre is a bad actor by continuing to make claims against Dershowitz.

Maxwell attorney Laura Menninger responded to Cooper’s assertions by saying it was patently false and ridiculous for Dershowitz to argue no one has relied on the original protective order or that the reliance issued have substantially changed due to the ongoing unsealing process mandated by the appeals court. Maxwell herself relied on the order, Menninger said, when she agreed to provide evidence to Giuffre in the underlying case.

Menninger went on to complain that Dershowitz has, in fact, gained access to some documents covered by the scope of the original protective order and noted that Maxwell was upset because Giuffre’s new attorneys have access to those original documents covered by the protective order. It appears that Giuffre’s attorneys have produced some discovery to Dershowitz in the second defamation case and, per Menninger, this goes against prior rulings.

Giuffre attorney Sigrid McCawley says she was retained for both cases and shrugged off the question of access by noting that she is working on both cases. She added that the protective order has barred them from producing some documents to Dershowitz; however, Preska ordered some discovery — so they went by that.

Given a second chance to make his case, Cooper said the situation was “unfair and inequitable,” alleging that the protective order has produced a “completely unfair tactical advantage in litigation” for one side only.

“I believe there is a compelling need here,” he said, citing Dershowitz’s constitutional right to defend himself, “while facing an adversary who has in her custody, possession or control, all of the materials he seeks.”

Cooper also raised eyebrows by claiming that the original protective order was “improvidently granted.” – Read more here