ALGERIA

See France.

ANDORRA

2004: European Court of Human Rights, Pla and Puncernau versus Andorra [E] ♦ [Subject: Last will]

ARGENTINA

1998-2000: Corte Suprema, Aguiar de Lapacó: Sentencia (1998) [S] ♦ Inter-American Commission on Human Rights, Aguiar de Lapacó versus Argentina (1999) [E][S] ♦ Updated version (2000) [E][S] ♦ [Subject: Amnesty laws invalid; right to mourn]

2002: Poder Judicial de la Nación, Miguel Brevetta Rodríguez versus Raúl Dargoltz (2002) [S] ♦ [Subject: Defamation charge against historian]

2008: Inter-American Court of Human Rights, Kimel versus Argentina [E] ♦ [Subject: Defamation charge against historian]

ARMENIA

2009: European Court of Human Rights, Murad Bojolyan versus Armenia [E] ♦ [Subject: Espionage charge against historian]

See also Switzerland 2007, Turkey.

AUSTRALIA

1992: High Court of Australia, Mabo versus Queensland [E] ♦ [Subject: Terra nullius]

1996: High Court of Australia, Wik Peoples versus Queensland [E] ♦ [Subject: Aboriginal land claims in areas of pastoral leases]

1996: Australian Press Council, Adjudication No. 890 (November 1996); “General Press Release No. 210” (January 1997) [E] ♦ [Subject: Posthumous defamation of historian Manning Clark]

1997: High Court of Australia, David Lange versus Australian Broadcasting Corporation [E] ♦ [Subject: Defamation] ♦ See also New Zealand 2000.

2002: Supreme Court of the Australian Capital Territory, Windschuttle versus ACP Publishing [E] ♦ [Subject: Defamation of historian]

2002: Australian Press Council, Adjudication No.1151 (January 2002); Richard Buchhorn versus The Australian [E] ♦ [Subject: Book review about Henry Reynolds, An Indelible Stain? The Question of Genocide in Australia's History]

AUSTRIA

1986: European Court of Human Rights, Lingens versus Austria [E][F] ♦ [Subject: Less immunity for politicians than for ordinary citizens]

1989: European Commission of Human Rights, B. H., M. W., H.P., G.K. versus Austria [E] ♦ [Subject: Holocaust denial]

1994: European Commission of Human Rights, Walter Ochensberger versus Austria [E] ♦ [Subject: Holocaust denial]

1996: European Commission of Human Rights, Friedrich Rebhandl versus Austria [E] ♦ [Subject: Holocaust denial]

1997: European Commission of Human Rights, Gerd Honsik versus Austria [E] [partial decision 1995: E] ♦ [Subject: Holocaust denial]

1998: European Commission of Human Rights, Herwig Nachtmann versus Austria [E] ♦ [Subject: Holocaust denial]

2003: European Court of Human Rights, Krone Verlag versus Austria [E] ♦ [Subject: Defamation]

AZERBAIJAN

2010: European Court of Human Rights, Eynulla Fatullayev versus Azerbaijan [E] ♦ [Subject: Insult of honor and dignity of Azerbaijanis for writings about war crime]

BELGIUM

1983: European Commission of Human Rights, T. versus Belgium [E] ♦ [Subject: Holocaust denial]

BOSNIA-HERZEGOVINA

2001: International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia, Prosecutor versus Radislav Krstić [E]; appeal 2004 [E] ♦ [Subject: Erasure of evidence for genocide]

2006: International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia, Prosecutor versus Momčilo Krajišnik [E] ♦ [Subject: Destruction of cultural momuments and sacred sites]

2007: International Court of Justice, Bosnia-Herzegovina versus Serbia-Montenegro [E][F] Note: without 11 individual opinions ♦ [Subject: Application of Genocide Convention]

BRAZIL

2010: Inter-American Court of Human Rights, Gomes Lund and others (Guerrilha do Araguaia) versus Brazil [P][S] ♦ [Subject: guerrilla under dictatorship of 1964-1985)]

BULGARIA

1997: European Commission of Human Rights, Panev versus Bulgaria [E] ♦ [Subject: Defamation]

2001: European Court of Human Rights, Stankov and the United Macedonian Organisation Ilinden versus Bulgaria [E] ♦ [Subject: Peaceful assembly of historical association]

2005: European Court of Human Rights, United Macedonian Organisation Ilinden and Ivanov versus Bulgaria [E] ♦ [Subject: Peaceful assembly of historical association]

2006: European Court of Human Rights, United Macedonian Organisation Ilinden and others versus Bulgaria [E] ♦ [Subject: Peaceful assembly of historical association]

2006: European Court of Human Rights, United Macedonian Organisation Ilinden–Pirin and others versus Bulgaria [E] ♦ [Subject: Peaceful assembly of historical association]

2006: European Court of Human Rights, Ivanov and others versus Bulgaria [E] ♦ [Subject: Peaceful assembly of historical association]

CAMBODIA

1962: International Court of Justice, Case Concerning the Temple of Preah Vihear (Cambodia versus Thailand) [E][F]

CANADA

1990: Supreme Court of Canada, Attorney General of Quebec versus Régent Sioui, Conrad Sioui, Georges Sioui & Hugues Sioui [E] ♦ [Subject: Historical treaty]

1992: Supreme Court of Canada, R. versus Ernst Zündel [E] ♦ 2003: Human Rights Committee, Zündel versus Canada [E] ♦ 2005: Human Rights Committee, Zündel versus Canada [E] ♦ [Subject: Holocaust denial]

1996: Supreme Court of Canada, Malcolm Ross versus New Brunswick School District No. 15 [E] ♦ 2000: Human Rights Committee, Ross versus Canada [E] ♦ [Subject: Holocaust denial]

1996: Supreme Court of Canada, R. versus Van der Peet [E] ♦ [Subject: Aboriginal rights]

1997: Supreme Court of Canada, Delgamuukw versus British Columbia [E] ♦ [Subject: Aboriginal title; value of oral history]

2003: Cour d’appel de Québec, Turgeon versus Michaud [F] ♦ [Subject: Commissioned history; privacy]

CHILE

2006: Inter-American Court of Human Rights, Marcel Claude Reyes and others versus Chile [E] ♦ [Subject: Freedom of information]

2010: Observatorio para la protección de los defensores de derechos humanos, Chile: Edwin Dimter Bianchi contra Pascale Bonnefoy; Séptimo juzgado de garantía, Santiago de Chile, 14-18 de enero de 2010: Informe de misión de observación judicial (2010) [S] ♦ [Subject: Defamation of army officer by journalist writing about the former's cruelty in 1973]

CHINA

2006: United Nations Working Group on Arbitrary Detention, Tohti Tunyaz versus China [E] ♦ [Subject: Arbitrary detention of historian]

2008: Hangzhou Municipal Intermediate People's Court, Lü Gengsong's Trial Verdict [C] ♦ [Subject: Historian tried for writing on the history of corruption]

CZECH REPUBLIC

2002: Human Rights Committee, Alzbeta Pezoldova versus The Czech Republic [E] ♦ [Subject: Confiscation of family property in 1940 without restitution; denial of archival access]

2010: Human Rights Committee, Josef Bergauer et al. versus The Czech Republic [E] ♦ [Subject: Situation of Sudeten Germans after 1945]

ETHIOPIA

1999: United Nations Working Group on Arbitrary Detention, Moti Biyya et al. versus Ethiopia [E] ♦ [Subject: Arbitrary detention of journalists writing, inter alia, books on Oromo history]

FINLAND

1978: Human Rights Committee, Hartikainen versus Finland [E] ♦ [Subject: Classes on the history of religion and ethics]

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FRANCE

1967: Cour de Cassation, Charles de Gaulle versus Henry Lémery [F] ♦ [Subject: defamation of president]

1993: Cour de Cassation, Case of Boudarel, 1 [F] ♦ 1999: Cour de Cassation, Case of Boudarel, 2 [F] ♦ 2003: European Court of Human Rights, Sobanski versus France [F] ♦ [Subject: historian accused of crimes against humanity]

1994: Cour de Cassation, Heirs of Hélène de Portes versus Jean-Jacques Servan-Schreiber [F] ♦ [Subject: posthumous defamation]

1995: Tribunal de Grande Instance de Paris, Forum des associations arméniennes de France versus Bernard Lewis [F] ♦ [Subject: Armenian genocide]

1996: European Commission of Human Rights, Marais versus France [F] ♦ [Subject: Holocaust denial]

1996: United Nations Human Rights Committee, Faurisson versus France [E][F] ♦ [Subject: Holocaust denial]

1998: European Court of Human Rights, Lehideux & Isorni versus France [E][F] ♦ [Subject: Lapse of time after event; apology of war crimes]

2000– ♦ 2000: Cour de Cassation, Case of Chauvy [F] ♦ 2004: European Court of Human Rights, Chauvy versus France [E] [F] ♦ [Subject: Defamation]

2003: European Court of Human Rights, Garaudy versus France [E][F] ♦ [Subject: Holocaust denial]

2004: European Court of Human Rights, Radio France versus France [E] [F] ♦ [Subject: Defamation]

2004: European Court of Human Rights, Éditions Plon versus France [E] ♦ [Subject: Defamation; privacy; right to mourn]

2006: European Court of Human Rights, Giniewski versus France [E] ♦ [Subject: Defamation]

2007: European Court of Human Rights, Hachette Filipacchi Associés versus France [E] [F] ♦ [Subject: Right to mourn; privacy]

2009: European Court of Human Rights, Ely Ould Dah versus France [F] ♦ [Subject: Amnesty law incompatible with states' duty to investigate torture in Mauritania in 1990–91.]

2009: European Court of Human Rights, J.H. and 23 Others versus France; summary: [E]; judgment: [F] ♦ [Subject: Compensation to orphans of World War II deportees]

2009: European Court of Human Rights, Orban and others versus France; summary: [E]; judgment: [F] ♦ [Subject: Legitimacy of torture and summary executions in Algerian war]

2010: Paris District Court, Fondation Franco-Japonaise dite Sasakawa versus Karoline Postel-Vinay [E] ♦ [Subject: Posthumous defamation]

GERMANY

1971: Bundesverfassungsgericht (Federal Constitutional Court), Peter Gorski versus Nymphenburger Verlagshandlung [“Mefisto case”] [E] ♦ [Subject: Posthumous defamation; freedom of artistic opinion]

1981: European Commission of Human Rights, X. versus Germany [E] ♦ [Subject: Scattering of ashes; will; privacy]

1982: European Commission of Human Rights, X. versus Germany [E] ♦ [Subject: Holocaust denial]

1990: Bundesverfassungsgericht (Federal Constitutional Court), Franz Josef Strauss versus Stern Magazine ♦ [Subject: “Coerced democrat case”] [E] [Posthumous defamation; protection of personality]

1993: European Commission of Human Rights, F.P. versus Germany [E] ♦ [Subject: Holocaust denial]

1994: Bundesverfassungsgericht (Federal Constitutional Court), Federal Examination Office for Literature endangering Young People versus X. [Ugo Walendy] [E] ♦ [Subject: Book ban; academic freedom of speech, research, and teaching]

1995: European Commission of Human Rights, Nationaldemokratische Partei Deutschlands versus Germany [E] ♦ [Subject: Holocaust denial]

1995: European Commission of Human Rights, Otto Remer versus Germany [E] ♦ [Subject: Holocaust denial]

1995: European Commission of Human Rights, Udo Walendy versus Germany [E] ♦ [Subject: Holocaust denial]

1996: European Commission of Human Rights, D.I. [David Irving] versus Germany [E] ♦ [Subject: Holocaust denial]

1999–: 1999: European Commission of Human Rights, Hans-Jürgen Witzsch versus Germany [E] ♦ 2005: European Commission of Human Rights, Hans-Jürgen Witzsch versus Germany [E] ♦ [Subject: Holocaust denial]

2001: European Commission of Human Rights, Jürgen Petersen versus Germany [E] ♦ [Subject: Dismissal of history lecturer after German reunification]

2005: European Commission of Human Rights, Hans-Jürgen Witzsch versus Germany ♦ [Subject: Holocaust denial]

GREECE

1998: European Court of Human Rights, Sidiropoulos and others versus Greece; judgment: [E]; reply government: [E] ♦ [Subject: Freedom of association for historical association]

HONDURAS

1988: Inter-American Court of Human Rights, Velásquez Rodríguez versus Honduras [E][S] ♦ [Subject: Successor regimes have a duty to investigate and prosecute]

HUNGARY

2008: European Court of Human Rights, Korbély versus Hungary [E] ♦ [Subject: Crime against humanity in 1956]

2009: European Court of Human Rights, Kenedi versus Hungary [E] ♦ [Subject: Historian’s access to state security archives]

2009: European Court of Human Rights, Karsai versus Hungary [E] ♦ [Subject: Defamation by historian]

INDIA

1987: Supreme Court of India, Government of Tamil Nadu versus Badrinath [E] ♦ [Subject: Defamation of historian]

1988: Supreme Court of India, Ramesh.s/o Chotalal Dalal versus Union of India [E] ♦ [Subject: Television series about:1947 partition]

1994: Supreme Court of India, Ismail Faruqui versus Union of India [E] ♦ [Subject: Demolition mosque Ayodhya]

1994: Supreme Court of India, Mohd. Aslam versus Union of India [E] ♦ [Subject: Demolition mosque Ayodhya]

2002: Supreme Court of India, Aruna Roy versus Union of India, part I [E]; part II [E] ♦ [Subject: School curriculum]

2007: High Court of Judicature at Allahabad, Mukerjee versus Mukheree [E] ♦ [Subject: Hindu temple Varanasi]

2010: Supreme Court of India, State of Maharashtra versus James Laine [E] ♦ [Subject: Ban on book about Shivaji]

INDONESIA

2008: Constitutional Court of Indonesia, Petition of Risang Bima Wijaya & Bersihar Lubis [E] ♦ [Subject: Defamation of Attorney General's Office for criticizing its ban of history textbooks]

See also United States 1994 (Kamal Bamadhaj).

IRELAND

See United Kingdom.

ISRAEL

1999: Supreme Court of Israel, Giora Szenes and others versus The Broadcasting Authority and others [E] ♦ [Subject: Posthumous defamation; no prior restraint of historical fiction; freedom of artistic opinion]

2002: Supreme Court of Israel, Teddy Katz versus Alexandroni Brigade [Hebrew] ♦ [Subject: 1948 crimes in Palestinian village of Tantura]

JAPAN

1993: Supreme Court, Case Concerning the Constitutionality of History Textbook Screening [E] ♦ [Subject: History textbooks]

1997: Supreme Court, Case Concerning the Legality of Ministry of Education Opinions Concerning History Textbooks [E] ♦ [Subject: History textbooks]

LATVIA

2008– ♦ 2008: European Court of Human Rights, Kononov versus Latvia [E][F] ♦ 2010 European Court of Human Rights [Grand Chamber], Kononov versus Latvia [E] ♦ [Subject: War crime in 1944; “no punishment without law”]

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MALAYSIA

See United States 1994 (Kamal Bamadhaj).

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MAURITANIA

See France 2009.

MOLDOVA

2009: European Court of Human Rights, Manole and others versus Moldova: Judgment [E] ♦ [Subject: Censorship of television and radio station regarding historical items]

2010: European Court of Human Rights, Petrenco versus Moldova: Judgment [E] ♦ [Subject: Former historian defamed by historian]

NETHERLANDS

1994-1995: Arrondissementsrechtbank Groningen, Case Boomsma [D] and Case Schaafsma [D] ♦ Gerechtshof Leeuwarden, Case Boomsma (appeal) [D] and Case Schaafsma (appeal) [D] ♦ [Subject: Novelist drawing defamatory historical parallels in interview]

1994: Gerechtshof 's Gravenhage, Siegfried Verbeke versus CIDI c.s. [appeal] [D] ♦ [Subject: Holocaust denial]

1998: European Commission of Human Rights, Middelburg & Van der Zee versus Netherlands [E] ♦ [Subject: Defamation]

2000: Rechtbank 's Gravenhage, 29 World War II veterans & others versus Ministry of Defense & Herman Amersfoort & Piet Kamphuis (two military historians) [D] ♦ [Subject: Defamation; posthumous defamation]

2003: Rechtbank Amsterdam, Eiseres versus Stichting Digitaal Monument Joodse Gemeenschap in Nederland en gedaagde [D] ♦ [Subject: Posthumous privacy]

2006: Raad van State (Council of State) (Afdeling Bestuursrechtspraak), Hoger beroep van dr. L.J. Giebels [D] ♦ [Subject: Archival access]

2008-: Rechtbank Amsterdam, Eiser versus Royal Tropical Institute (2008) [D] ♦ Appeal: (2009) [D] ♦ [Subject: Free expression about history in exhibit]

2008: Rechtbank Dordrecht, Stichting De Grote Rivieren versus Minister van Volksgezondheid, Welzijn en Sport [D] ♦ [Subject: Posthumous privacy]

2009: Rechtbank 's-Gravenhage, Marcel Metze versus Staat der Nederlanden (Ministerie van verkeer en waterstaat) [D] ♦ [Subject: Copyright of commissioned history]

2010: Rechtbank Amsterdam, Nina Storms [aka Nina Brink] versus Eric Smit & Prometheus Publishers [D] ♦ [Subject: Unauthorized biography]

2011: Rechtbank 's-Gravenhage, Roel van Duijn versus Minister van Binnenlandse Zaken en Koninkrijksrelaties) [D] ♦ [Subject: Access to secret service files kept on him]

2011: Rechtbank Amsterdam, Van Maasdijk versus Cees Fasseur & Arbeiderspers, Archipel, Balans: Subpoena (14 June 2010) [D]; Judgment (23 March 2011) [D] ♦ [Subject: Posthumous defamation; invasion of privacy]

NEW ZEALAND

2000: Lords of the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council, David Lange versus Joe Atkinson (& Australian Consolidated Press, publisher of North and South) [E] ♦ See also Australia 1997.

POLAND

2002: European Court of Human Rights, Płoski versus Poland [E] ♦ [Subject: Right to mourn]

2004: European Court of Human Rights, Pieniążek versus Poland [E] ♦ [Subject: Duration of defamation proceedings]

ROMANIA

2000: European Court of Human Rights, Rotaru versus Romania [E][F] ♦ [Subject: Preservation of archival information; content of closed archives]

2002: European Court of Human Rights, Stănescu & Ardeleanu versus Romania [E] ♦ [Subject: Defamation]

2009: European Court of Human Rights, Association 21 December 1989 Bucarest & Teodor Mărieş & Marin Stoica versus Romania [F] ♦ [Subject: Access to archival files relating to relating to Ceausescu’s overthrow]

RUSSIA

2001– ♦ 2001: United Nations Working Group on Arbitrary Detention, Igor Sutyagin versus Russia [E] ♦ 2007: Council of Europe Parliamentary Assembly, “Resolution 1551” [E] ♦ 2011: European Court of Human Rights, Sutyagin versus Russia [E] ♦ [Subject: Arbitrary detention of historian]

RWANDA

1998: International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda, Prosecutor versus Akayesu [E] ♦ [Subject: First conviction for genocide]

2003: International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda, Prosecutor versus Nahimana et alii [E]; appeal 2007 [E] ♦ [Subject: Historian convicted for inciting genocide]

SERBIA

2009: European Court of Human Rights, Bodrožić versus Serbia [E] ♦ [Subject: Defamation of historian] ♦ See also Bosnia-Herzegovina 2007.

SLOVAKIA

2001: European Court of Human Rights, Feldek versus Slovakia [E] ♦ [Subject: Defamation]

2004: European Court of Human Rights, Hrico versus Slovakia [E] ♦ [Subject: Defamation]

2006: European Court of Human Rights, Turek versus Slovakia [E] ♦ [Subject: Access to archival information]

SOUTH AFRICA

2002: Constitutional Court of South Africa, Islamic Unity Convention versus Independent Broadcasting Authority, South African Jewish Board of Deputies, Minister of Communications [E] ♦ [Subject: Holocaust denial]

2008: High Court of South Africa (Transvaal Provincial Division), Thembisile Phumelele Nkadimeng and Othersversus National Director of Public Prosecutions and Others: Judgment [E] ♦ [Subject: Enforced disappearances; conflicts of the past]

SPAIN

2004: Tribunal Constitucional de España, Descendants of Carlos Trias Bertrán versus Dolors Genovés Morales [S] ♦ [Subject: Posthumous defamation]

2007: Tribunal Constitucional de España, José Fortes Bouzán versus Francisco Javier Sánchez de Dios & Valentín Carmelo Rodríguez Fernández [S] ♦ [Subject: Plagiarism]

2007: Tribunal Constitucional de España [E][S] ♦ [Subject: Constitutionality of penal code article regarding denial and justification of genocide]

SWITZERLAND

1985: Schweizerisches Bundesgericht, Robert Eibel versus Jürg Frischknecht et. al. [G] ♦ [Subject: No right to forget]

2001: Schweizerischen Bundesgericht, Willi Wottreng versus Präsident des Obergerichts des Kantons Zürich [G] ♦ [Subject: Posthumous Privacy]

2002: Schaffhauser Obergericht, X versus Christoph Schlatter ♦ [Subject: Posthumous privacy] [G]

2006: European Court of Human Rights, Monnat versus Switzerland [E][F] ♦ [Subject: Television documentary about wartime economic collaboration]

2007-: Tribunal d’arrondissement de Lausanne, Cas de Dogu Perinçek [F] ♦ Tribunal féderal suisse, Cas de Perinçek [F] ♦ European Court of Human Rights, Cas de Perincek: Exposé des faits (2010) [F] ♦ [Subject: Racial discrimination; denial Armenian genocide]

2007: European Court of Human Rights, Stoll versus Switzerland [E][F] ♦ [Subject: Publication of confidential report about Swiss strategy concerning compensation due to Holocaust victims.]

2010: Schweizerisches Bundesgericht, NNversus Oberstaatsanwaltschaft des Kantons Zürich [G] ♦ [Subject: denial Armenian genocide]

TAIWAN

See United States 1989.

THAILAND

See Cambodia 1962.

TURKEY

1999: European Court of Human Rights, Arslan versus Turkey [E] ♦ [Subject: Dissemination of separatist propaganda]

1999: European Court of Human Rights, Polat versus Turkey [E] ♦ [Subject: Dissemination of separatist propaganda]

1999: European Court of Human Rights, Okçuoglu versus Turkey [E] ♦ [Subject: Dissemination of separatist propaganda]

1999: European Court of Human Rights, Karataş versus Turkey [E] ♦ [Subject: Dissemination of separatist propaganda]

1999: European Court of Human Rights, Öztürk versus Turkey [E] ♦ [Subject: Dissemination of separatist propaganda]

2000: European Court of Human Rights, Baskaya and Okçuoglu versus Turkey [E] ♦ [Subject: Dissemination of separatist propaganda]

2003: European Communities (Court of First Instance) Krikorian, Krikorian, Euro-Arménie versus European Parliament, EU Council, and EU Commission (Case T-346/03) [E][F][S] ♦ [Subject: Recognition of Turkey’s status as EU member candidate despite its refusal to acknowledge the 1915 genocide against the Armenians]

2010: European Court of Human Rights, Dink versus Turkey: Press Release / Summary: [E] Judgment [F] ♦ [Subject: Right to life & freedom of expression of journalist writing about historical issues]

2011: European Court of Human Rights, Taner Akçam versus Turkey: Statement of Facts (2008) [E] ♦ Press release / summary (2011) [E][F] ♦ Judgment (2011) [E] ♦ [Subject: Freedom of expression of historian; reopening criminal proceedings]

See also Switzerland 2007, 2010.

UNITED KINGDOM

1995: European Court of Human Rights, Tolstoy versus United Kingdom [E] ♦ [Subject: Defamation]

1996: European Court of Human Rights, Goodwin versus United Kingdom [E] ♦ [Subject: Nondisclosure of sources]

1999: House of Lords, Albert Reynolds versus Times Newspapers and others [E] ♦ [Subject: Defamation]

2000: High Court of Justice Queen's Bench Division, David Irving versus Penguin Books & Deborah Lipstadt [E]; appeal 2001[E] ♦ [Subject: Holocaust denial]

2009: European Court of Human Rights, Times Newspapers versus United Kingdom [E] ♦ [Subject: Integrity of a newspaper's Internet archive]

See also United States 2011.

UNITED STATES

1895: United States Court of Appeals, Schuyler versus Curtis and others [E] ♦ [Subject: Posthumous privacy]

1957: United States Supreme Court, Sweezy versus New Hampshire [E] ♦ [Subject: landmark academic freedom case involving economic historian]

1988: Supreme Court of New York, Society Survivors Riga Ghetto versus Henry R. Huttenbach extract: [E] ♦ [Subject: copyright of commissioned history]

1989: United States Court of Appeals (Ninth Circuit), Helen Liu (on behalf of the late Henry Liu) versus Republic of China [E] ♦ [Subject: assassination of historian Henry Liu (biographer of C.K. Chiang)]

1994: United States District Court (District of Massachusetts), Helen Todd versus Sintong Panjaitan (Plaintiff's Memorandum of Law in Support of Motion for Default Judgment (1994) [E] ♦ [Subject: killing of Malaysian history student Kamal Bamadhaj on Santa Cruz cemetery, Dili, East Timor, Indonesia]

2003: United States Court of Appeals, Schrecker versus United States Department of Justice [E] Amici curiae brief [E] ♦ [Subject: Privacy in records]

2003: United States Court of Appeals (Seventh Circuit), Haynes versus Knopf [E] ♦ [Subject: Public disclosure of private facts]

2004: Supreme Court of the United States, National Archives and Records Administration versus Favish and others [E] Petition for rehearing [E] ♦ [Subject: Posthumous privacy]

2004: United States Court of Appeals (Ninth Circuit), Bonnichsen versus United States [E] ♦ [Subject: Ancient human remains ("Kennewick Man")]

2004: Supreme Court of the United States,Shafiq Rasul versus George W. Bush: Brief Amici Curiae of Legal Historians [E] ♦ [Subject: Habeas corpus]

2006: Supreme Court of the United States, Garcetti et alii versus Ceballos [E] ♦ Brief of Amici Curiae by Th. Jefferson Center for Free Expression and American Association of University Professors [E] ♦ [Subject: No First Amendment free speech protection for government employees except for scholarship and teaching]

2006: Court in California, Hindu American Foundation and Others versus California State Board of Education and Others [E] ♦ [Subject: Representation of India in history textbooks]

2008: United States Court of Appeals, Phelps-Roper versus Strickland, Dann, Mason [E] ♦ [Subject: Respect for funeral attendees]

2009: United States District Court for the Eastern District of California, California Parents for the Equalization of Educational Materials (CAPEEM) versus Kenneth Noonan and Others, part I [E]; part II [E] ♦ [Subject: Representation of India in history textbooks]

2009-2010: United States District Court (District of Columbia), Guenter Lewy versus Southern Poverty Law Center and David Holthouse: Complaint (2009) [E]; Memorandum Opinion (2010) [E] ♦ [Subject: Armenian genocide]

2010: United States Court of Appeals (First Circuit), Griswold versus Driscoll [E] ♦ [Subject: Armenian genocide education]

2011: United States District Court (District of Massachusetts), Motion of Trustees of Boston College to Quash Subpoenas [E] ♦ United States versus Trustees of Boston College, John McNeill, Ed Moloney, Anthony McIntyre: Memorandum and Order [E] [Subject: Subpoena to obtain oral history interviews]

2011: Supreme Court of the United States, Snyder versus Phelps et al. [E] ♦ [Subject: Respect for funeral attendees; defamation; privacy invasion; intentional infliction of emotional distress]

See also India 2010.

URUGUAY

1983: United Nations Human Rights Committee, Quinteros versus Uruguay [E] ♦ [Subject: Right to know (right to the truth)]

1987: United Nations Human Rights Committee, Cariboni versus Uruguay [E] ♦ [Subject: Unfair trial & torture of historian]

VIETNAM

See France 1993–.

WESTERN SAHARA

1975: International Court of Justice, Western Sahara (advisory opinion) [E][F] ♦ [Subject: Terra nullius]