Appellate Briefs and Oral Argument Available Online

The NSA's appeal of Judge St. Eve's decision in favor of the Orthodox Bahá'ís has been proceeding before the United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit in Chicago, Illinois.

The case has been fully briefed and the parties argued in Chicago Illinois on 20 February 2009 before a panel of Judges of the Court of Appeals: the Honorable Daniel A. Manion, the Honorable William J. Bauer, and the Honorable Diane S. Sykes.

Appearing on behalf of the Orthodox Bahá'ís was James McClymonds, a New York attorney who is the grandson of A.S. Petzoldt, the chairman of the NSA under the Hereditary Guardianship (under Mason Remey) and whose deposition was taken by the NSA in the original case.  James was a small child when his grandfather expressed the wish that someone would one day come forward to overturn the outrageous judgment that the Wilmette NSA had obtained against Remey's NSA.

The appellate briefs and a recording of the oral argument are public documents available on the Court of Appeal's web site. For links to the briefs and recording and more information about the case brought by the Wilmette NSA in an attempt to prevent the Orthodox Bahá'ís from using the name "Bahá'í" and from using the Greatest Name symbols, click here:

http://www.truebahai.com/court_case.html

Jeffrey