If the potentially “momentous” new U.S. Supreme Court term isn't enough to satisfy hungry court watchers, justices — alive and dead — and maybe even clerks will soon be coming to the big and small screens.

The Hollywood news media recently announced the two leads in “On the Basis of Sex,” a movie about young law professor Ruth Bader Ginsburg and her husband, Martin Ginsburg, who won a landmark tax-gender discrimination case, Moritz v. Commissioner of Internal Revenue, at the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit in 1972. The Supreme Court denied review of the government's appeal in 1973.

Diego M. Radzinschi

Charles Moritz attempted to deduct his mother's home health care costs on his tax return. The Internal Revenue Service told him that a single woman, gainfully employed, could take the deduction, but a man who had never married could not. Ruth Bader Ginsburg's husband, a tax law expert, urged her to represent Moritz. Martin Ginsburg was co-counsel with her in the Tenth Circuit.