Dershowitz v. Cassell?

Is a lawsuit brewing between Alan Dershowitz and Paul Cassell? Who, you ask? Who are these guys?

Alan Dershowitz is one of the United States' best known civil rights lawyers. A professor at Harvard Law School, Mr. Dershowitz may be best-known as the appellate attorney for O.J. Simpson; however he called that case not one of his most important. He also represented other celebrities, among them Patty Hearst and Harry Reams, who, in the 1970s, was accused of distribution of pornography for his movie Deep Throat. In 2006 Mr. Dershowitz began to represent Jeffrey Epstein, a billionaire who was accused of repeatedly soliciting sex from minors. The proceedings are tangled but the end result was a plea bargain by Epstein that resulted in his becoming a registered sex offender.

Paul Cassell is a former federal judge and professor of law at the University of Utah's S.J. Quinney College of Law. Mr. Cassell is a graduate of Stanford University and served as an assistant United States Attorney after clerking for U.S. Supreme Court Chief Justice Warren Burger. In 1992 he joined the faculty at the University of Utah. In 2002 he was appointed as a federal judge in Utah. He resigned in 2007 to return to the University of Utah where he became an advocate for victims' rights.

Beginning in 2008 several civil suits were filed against Jeffrey Epstein alleging that he forced underage girls to have sex with him. Many of these were settled by Epstein's paying various sums of money. In December, 2014, Mr. Cassell and another attorney, Bradley J. Evans, filed a motion to join two other women, identified as Jane Does 3 and 4, in a lawsuit pending against Epstein in Florida. In that filing, Mr. Cassell and Mr. Evans allege that Mr. Dershowitz himself, along with Prince Andrew, engaged in sex with the underage girls. More details can be found here.  Mr. Dershowitz responded by calling for Mr. Cassell's disbarment.

What we have is two heavyweights in the legal field squaring off against each other. This should be interesting. Stay tuned.