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The DOJ Shrugs Off Calls For a Special Master In A Letter To The Court (5/25/26) · The Vault: The Epstein Files

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  Speaker 1: What's up everyone, and welcome to another episode of the
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  Epstein Chronicles. So the DOJ continues to do everything in
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  their power to not be in compliance with the law
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  passed by Congress and signed by the President of the
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  United States. And in this episode, we're going to take
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  a look at the letter sent to Judge Engelmeyer complaining
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  that Roe Kanna and Thomas Massey want to have a
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  special Master appointed over the disbursement of the files. So
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  with that said, let's dive in January sixteenth, twenty twenty six.
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  Dear Judge Engelmeyer, this is a criminal case with two parties,
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  the government and the defendant, Glaiine Maxwell, that is long
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  since over Cee Dockett seven seven seven at three to
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  one seven five through three to one seven seven, Jerry's
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  guilty verdict on counts one and three through six, and
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  verdict of acquittal on count two six fifty seven. Judge
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  Nathan's de den isle of Maxwell's post trial rule twenty
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  nine Motion seven seventy nine at ninety six through ninety eight.
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  Judge Nathan's oral imposition of sentence six ninety six. Maxwell's
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  judgment of conviction Us versus Maxwell fourth two fifty six,
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  Second Circuit twenty twenty four, the Second Circuits affirments of
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  Maxwell's judgment of conviction Maxwell versus Us October sixth, twenty
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  twenty five, the Supreme Court's denial of Maxwell's writ, and accordingly,
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  there are only two issues currently pending before the Court.
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  One resolution of Maxwell's collateral challenge to her conviction and
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  sentence pursu into US Code twenty eight, Section twenty two
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  fifty five, and to this court supervision enforcement and door
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  modification of a protective order that Judge Nathan issued years
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  ago with respect to discovery material that the government provided
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  to Maxwell, determining what the government may make public without
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  violating that protective order. With regard to the latter, the
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  Court modified the protective order to permit the government to
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  release publicly certain materials covered by the protective order, subject
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  to limitation, so that the government could comply with the
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  Epstein Files Transparency Act of November nineteenth, twenty twenty five. However,
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  because the issue before the Court was the scope of
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  the protective order as opposed to the government's obligation under
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  the Act, the Court did not, and respectfully should not,
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  mandate such disclosures. Despite the narrow scope of live issues
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  before the court. Representatives Rocanna and Thomas Massey now seek
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  to use this criminal case, to which they are not parties,
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  to enforce the provisions of the Act, which was passed
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  after the Supreme Court denied Maxwell's petition and her writ,
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  thus rendering judgment final. By seeking relief in the form
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  of oversight of the Department of Justice compliance with the Act,
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  which relief or cause of action are not provided for
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  in any statute, and having no Article three standing, they
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  do so by seeking leave to appear as Amichi Curi
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  without once citing the purpose of Amichikurai to provide the
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  court with neutral assistance and analyzing the issues before it.
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  The Court thus should exercise its broad discretion to deny
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  the appearance of Amichi Curai in the case Amichi Curai
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  cannot raise new issues and seek new relief. Amichi Curai
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  exists to provide the court with neutral assistance and analyzing
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  the issues before it. Their function is not to raise
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  new issues. Representatives Rocana and Massi's motion for leave runs
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  a foul of all the rules. Seeking entry into a
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  long closed criminal case, The representatives explicitly tried to create
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  a new issue by moving the Court to appoint a
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  special Master and independent monitor for the purpose of compelling
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  the Department of Justice to make a mandatory production under
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  the Act. The supposed need for this oversight is an
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  issue that neither a party has raised, nor could they,
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  as the narrow issue before this Court has been how
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  the Protective Order can be modified to allow the government
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  to proceed under the Act as opposed to enforcement of
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  the Act itself, and the Court already reached the decision
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  on that issue modifying the Protective Order Doct. Eight twenty
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  at twenty three to twenty four. There is no pending issue,
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  much less one touching on the extraordinary relief sought by
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  the representatives with which Amichi could assist the Court. The
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  primary role of the amicis is to assist the Court
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  in reaching the right decision in a case affected with
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  the interest of the general public. In short, Representatives Conna
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  and Massey, who propose moving to appoint a special Master
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  to compel production of documents or to compel the testimony
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  of SDNY officials, promised to exceed the well defined role
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  of Amchi Kurai. An amicis cannot make independent mo motions
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  and is precluded from engaging in adversarial activities such as
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  motions to compel. Representatives Conna m Massey do not seek
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  merely to go well beyond the permissible bounds of amicus.
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  They do not even come as a friend to the
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  court and provide the court with an objective, dispassionate, neutral
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  discussion Us Versus Gotti seven fifty five ed N Y
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  ninety one. Rather, they seek to vindicate their own particular
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  interests Town of Bedford twenty one, Sieve twenty twenty two,
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  SDN Y twenty twenty two, and advance their vision of
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  what the EFTA review should look like. Courts routinely deny
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  motions for leave in this circumstance see Long Island Soundkeeper
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  Fund verset. NY Athletic Club. Denial of leave to appear
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  as amicis in a situation such as this, in which
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  the applicant appears to have its own particular interest in
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  the outcome of the litigation is far from unprecedented, and
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  so too should this court. Representative Conna and Massy improperly
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  seek judicial enforcement of the Act. In light of the
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  Representative's motion, this Court asked whether Representative Conna and Massy
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  have Article three standing, and whether the Court has the
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  authority to rule upon or take action to bring about
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  DJ's compliance with the Act, putting aside that this is
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  clearly not the proper forum for the motion in the
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  first place. The answer to both questions is, respectfully no.
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  Representative Conna and Massy lack standing. To have a standing,
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  a plaintiff must show one an injury in fact, two
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  fairly traceable to the challenge conduct of the defendant, three
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  that is likely to be redressed by the requested relief,
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  and most obviously absent. Here is an injury in fact
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  or an invasion of a legally protected interest that is
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  concrete and particularized and actual or imminent, not conjectural or hypothetical.
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  Representatives ConA MASSI claim injury based on the Department of
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  Justice allege noncompliance with the act's production requirements. But the
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  Act does not provide any personal statutory right to seek
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  information at issue Center for Biological Diversity First, US International
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  Development DC Circuit twenty twenty three. The Act is unlike,
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  for example, the Freedom of Information Act, which creates an
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  individual right to obtain information, and even if the Act
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  did confer such a right, Representative Kana and Massey do
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  not demonstrate that this informational injury cause them any harm.
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  An asserted informational injury that causes no adverse effects cannot
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  satisfy Article three. Put simply, their generalized grievance is insufficient
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  for Article three standing to the extent that Representative Conna
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  and Massey rely on their political office that they are
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  the leads of the Epstein File Transparency Act. Individual members
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  of Congress, such as Representatives Conna and Massey, asserting wholly
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  abstract and widely dispersed institutional injury, do not have a
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  sufficient personal stake in the dispute and have not alleged
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  a sufficiently concrete injury to have established Article three standing.
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  Individual members lack standing to assert the institutional interests of
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  a legislature. Accordingly, Representatives ConA and Massey do not have
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  standing to raise issues concerning DOJ's compliance with the Act. Respectfully,
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  the government submits that the court lacks the authority to
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  enter the requested relief. When the Constitution or laws of
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  the United States do not support a cause of action,
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  a federal court cannot reach out to award remedies. A
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  plaintiff must have a cause of action under the applicable statute.
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  To get any form of relief in the federal court room,
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  a litigant must have a cause of action. The Act
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  does not provide a cause of action see e g.
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  D Egbert versus Bolet, five ninety six, twenty twenty two.
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  Creating a cause of action is a legislative endeavor. Because
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  the statute does not evince Congress intent to create a
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  private cause of action asserted, this court may not create
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  that action through judicial mandate. If the statute does not
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  itself provide a private cause of action, will not be
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  created through judicial mandate. The mere fact that the statute
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  was designed to protect advisors clients does not require the
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  implication of a private cause of action for damages on
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  their behalf. We have held that if a statute does
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  not specify a consequence for non compliance with statutory timing provisions,
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  the federal courts will not, in the ordinary course, impose
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  their own course of sanction. With no standing and no
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  cause of action, the representatives are unable to seek relief
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  they requested, and respectfully of the Court is without authority
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  to issue it. Fal courts lack jurisdiction if no name
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  plaintiff has standing nor does this Court supervision of the
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  protective order in the case or otherwise change the calculus.
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  While the Court has the inherent power to enforce its order,
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  the protective order only one reaches a subset of documents
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  under review. The protective order covers all discovery the prosecution
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  made to the defense in the Maxwell case, two operates
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  to protect victim privacy, and three restricts what the government
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  may disclose, as opposed to mandating such disclosure. In short,
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  the protective order simply does not provide a basis for
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  a judicial oversight of the departments compliance with the Act.
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  Representatives Kana and Massey do not have standing. Their stated
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  objectives are inconsistent with the role of an amicus as
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  well as the role of the court. In any event,
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  there is no authority permitting the Court to grant the
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  representatives the relief they improperly seek. The Court therefore should
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  deny their emotion for leave to file an amicus brief, Respectfully, Yours, Pamela,
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  Jay Bondi, Todd Blanche and Jay Clayton. All of the
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  information that goes with this episode can be found in
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  the description box.