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Featuring Roberta Kaplan, Partner, Paul Weiss LLP, in conversation with Steven M. Dettelbach, U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Ohio.

Roberta Kaplan discusses the case U.S. v. Windsor that she argued before the U.S. Supreme Court resulting in the decision that the Defense of Marriage Act violated the constitution by discriminating against same-sex married couples. She describes the weight of the case, from the initial decision to take it on, to the intense preparation, and finally the execution in court. Kaplan said one of the strongest arguments against DOMA was that it created a type of caste system in American marriages that was offensive to the constitution.