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MC: The coram nobis cases are a very good example, actually, of the impact of the admissions of, of minority students to law schools because the vast majority of people on the coram nobis teams were in fact these newly graduated minority lawyers. And so it's possible that the case may not, the cases may not have been brought at all, but for the admission of this, this group of people. I'm wondering, I'm interested in the fact, as you know, that there were a quite a few women lawyers on the teams, and in fact, women began to be admitted to law school in large numbers only in the early 1970s. So if you graduated in '79, you were really part of that first wave of, of women graduates, and there were a number of women involved in the coram nobis efforts including your sister, Kathryn Bannai, and Sharon Sakamoto up here in Seattle, Peggy Nagae in Portland, and, and you and a few others down in San Francisco. Do you see any impact of gender, either in, in the form of, of the lawyer-to-lawyer interactions on the teams or the impact of gendered thinking perhaps on strategies, legal strategies, within those teams? It's clear that we have the, the effect of minority lawyers shaping the whole strategy, but what about gender?

LB: Hmm. I think that's a very hard question for me to answer, and I don't think I'm in a position right now to put together a response I'm going to feel good about.

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