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Dec 27, 2018 · Daniel Stiepleman was sitting at his Uncle Martin’s funeral in 2010, when he heard a eulogy that sparked a screenplay. The story had to do with a case that his uncle, a tax lawyer,...
- Ruth Bader Ginsburg
Martin Ginsburg, meanwhile, had been urging New York’s...
- Ruth Bader Ginsburg
- Fact: Ginsburg Graduated from Columbia After Transferring from Harvard
- Fact: Martin Ginsburg Cooked Dinner For The Family
- Partially Fact: Ginsburg’s First Big Case Was A Tax Case
- Fact: Ginsburg Was Childhood Friends with ACLU Legal Director Melvin Wulf
- Fact: Moritz Led to Ginsburg’s Continued Work with The ACLU
After Martin Ginsburg graduated from Harvard Law School in 1958, Ruth still had one year left. But Martin was offered a job in New York City that he couldn’t pass up. Ruth decided that she needed to be in New York with him and their young daughter and couldn’t stay in Boston to complete her degree. But the Dean of Harvard Law School, played by Sam ...
The picture the movie paints of the Ginsburgs’ egalitarian marriage is true to the life they led. Martin, who died in 2010, loved to cook dinner for the family and supported his wife in all of her professional pursuits—an arrangement that was not particularly common for that time. Ginsburg has said that when she met Martin at Cornell, where they bo...
On the Basis of Sex suggests that the case the movie follows is Ginsburg’s first. And although Moritz v. Commissionerdefinitely was the first well-known case Ginsburg tried, it wasn’t her first. What is true, as Ginsburg told Totenberg, is the movie’s depiction of how she came to discover this case. “I don’t read tax cases,” Ruth tells Marty in the...
In the movie, Ruth’s childhood friendship with the legal director of the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), Melvin Wulf (played by Justin Theroux), is tantamount to her success in Moritz. This is true. The two attended a Jewish summer camp together, and when Ginsburg told her friend about the case she and Martin had found, he agreed that the AC...
After winning Moritz, Ginsburg co-founded the Women’s Right’s Project at the ACLU in 1972, where she continued the fight to promote gender equality. Without Ginsburg’s work eradicating the laws that discriminate on the basis of sex, the country may not look how it does today: a country which, in spite of its problems, does have very few such laws t...
Courtesy of Daniel Stiepleman. By Anna Menta. Senior Writer. Pretty much everyone agrees that Supreme Court Justice Ruth Ginsburg is a horrible cook. "She was the worst ," says her nephew,...
Dec 17, 2018 · In 2010, Daniel Stiepleman attended the funeral of his uncle Martin Ginsburg, a tax attorney. In one of the eulogies, a family friend told the story of Charles E. Moritz v....
Apr 15, 2019 · Daniel Stiepleman: I went to film school, like so many people. I went to undergraduate at NYU, but I graduated at 21. I had a moment of insight that no 21‑year‑old deserves to have, which was that I had never done anything hard, and I had nothing interesting to say. I turned down my job offer in LA.
Dec 18, 2018 · Screenwriter Daniel Stiepleman, who grew up calling these two lawyers Uncle Marty and Aunt Ruth, wanted not only to pay homage to a judicial icon, but also to the great romance that buoyed Ruth Bader Ginsburg throughout her life. Starting in 2011, Stiepleman crafted a suspenseful legal drama that was also a touching romance.
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Jan 31, 2023 · The screenplay is by first-time screenwriter Daniel Stiepleman, who happens to be the Justice’s nephew. As an insider, he gives a behind-the-curtain view of RBG’s personal life, which Ginsburg evidently gave her seal of approval.
