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Filing # 37201585 E-Filed 01/29/2016 03:47:44 PM 
IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE 
SEVENTEENTH JUDICIAL CIRCUIT 
IN AND FOR BROWARD COUNTY, FLORIDA 
CASE NO.: CACE 15-000072 
BRADLEY J. EDWARDS and 
PAUL G. CASSELL, 
Plaintiffs/Counterclaim Defendants, 
vs. 
ALAN M. DERSHOWITZ, 
Defendant/Counterclaim Plaintiff 
/ 
DEFENDANT/COUNTERCLAIM PLAINTIFF ALAN DERSHOWITZ'S  
MOTION FOR CLARIFICATION OF CONFIDENTIALITY ORDER OR RELIEF 
FROM THAT ORDER 
The transcript of the deposition of non-party Virginia Roberts Giuffre ("Roberts") is 
currently under seal as a result of the January 12, 2016 Confidentiality Order in this action. 
Dershowitz seeks clarification that the Confidentiality Order does not preclude him or his 
counsel from submitting the transcript of the deposition to the Office of the State Attorney, the 
Office of the United States Attorney, and other appropriate investigative authorities solely for 
purposes of requesting that those offices consider opening perjury investigations regarding 
Roberts's testimony. To the extent that the Confidentiality Order precludes such disclosure, 
Dershowitz requests that the Court modify it to permit the requested disclosure in the public 
interest. 
Roberts has stated in an affidavit originally filed publicly in federal court in what the 
parties have referred to as the CVRA Action that she was present on Jeffrey Epstein's private 
island, Little St. James Island, at the same time as former President Clinton. That affidavit was 
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stricken in relevant part from the record by the federal court, but Roberts's counsel filed publicly 
a pleading in this case contesting Defendant's assertion that her statements in the media 
regarding meeting former President Clinton were untrue. A copy of the public affidavit filed in 
the CVRA Action and the excerpted portion of the pleading filed in this action are attached 
hereto as composite Exhibit A. 
Because former President Clinton did not leave office until Janu

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