Court Cases

Armenia

Vahan Bayatyan

Vahan Bayatyan v. Armenia, European Court of Human Rights

Chamber judgment of 27 October 2009: "Case of Bayatyan v. Armenia (Application no. 23459/03): Judgment," (new window). Chamber judgment as a PDF document (new window). See "The European Court of Human Rights: Out of Step on Conscientious Objection" (new window), by Derek Brett, CPTI UN Representative, on the Forum 18 Web site (19 November 2009).

Leave has now been granted to appeal to the Grand Chamber. The appeal is pending. CPTI, together with four other nongovernmental organizations in consultative status with the United Nations, successfully applied to the Court for permission to submit an amicus brief: "Written Comments Submitted by Amnesty International, Conscience and Peace Tax International, Friends World Committee for Consultation (Quakers), International Commission of Jurists, and War Resisters' International, Pursuant to Article 36 § 2 of the European Convention on Human Rights and Rule 44 § 3 of the Rules of the Court" (PDF, new window), 15 July 2010.

Bolivia

Alfredo Díaz Bustos

Bolivia Petición 14/04, Inter-American Commission on Human Rights

Español: "Informe Nº 97/05: Petición 14/04: Solución Amistosa," (una nueva ventana), 27 October 2005

English: "Report Nº 97/05: Petition 14/04: Friendly Settlement," (new window), 27 de octubre de 2005

Reference:

Español: "Convención Americana Sobre Derechos Humanos (Suscrita en San José de Costa Rica el 22 de noviembre de 1969, en la Conferencia Especializada Interamericana sobre Derechos Humanos)" (una nueva ventana)

English: "American Convention on Human Rights (Adopted at the Inter-American Specialized Conference on Human Rights, San José, Costa Rica, 22 November 1969)" (new window)

Canada

Dr. Jerilynn Prior

United Nations Human Rights Committee

"Communication to the Human Rights Committee", 21 February 1991. (Read the PDF version in a new window.)

United Nations Human Rights Committee's "Decisions: Communication No. 446/1991", 7 November 1991. (Read the PDF version in a new window.)

Germany

K. V. and C. V.

K.V. and C.V., United Nations Human Rights Committee

United Nations Human Rights Committee's "Decisions: Communication No. 568/1993", 8 April 1994 (Read the PDF version in a new window.)

Constitutional Appeal Against the Use of Taxes for Armament and the Military, German Federal Constitutional Court

"Summary: Constitutional Appeal Military Taxes", 15 April 2009 (Word document, new window)

USA

Daniel Taylor Jenkins

United States Tax Court

United States Tax Court Decision in the case of Daniel Taylor Jenkins, Petitioner, v. Commissioner of Internal Revenue Service (3 March 2005) [pdf version]

United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit

Brief for Petitioner-Appellant in the case of Daniel Taylor Jenkins, Petitioner, v. Commissioner of Internal Revenue Service No. 05-4756-ag (31 May 2006)
The Amicus Brief of the New York Yearly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends (Quakers) in Support of Daniel Taylor Jenkins before the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit (6 June 2006)
Brief for Commissioner of Internal Revenue-Appellee in the case of Daniel Taylor Jenkins, Petitioner, v. Commissioner of Internal Revenue Service No. 05-4756-ag (28 July 2006) [pdf version]
Reply Brief for Petitioner-Appelant in the case of Daniel Taylor Jenkins, Petitioner, v. Commissioner of Internal Revenue Service No. 05-4756-ag (24 August, 2006) [pdf version]
Second Circuit Court Decision in the case of Daniel Taylor Jenkins, Petitioner, v. Commissioner of Internal Revenue Service (6 March 2007) [pdf version]

United States Supreme Court

The Petition for Writ of Certiorari in the case of Daniel Taylor Jenkins, Petitioner, v. United States of America, Respondent (4 June 2007)
The Amicus Brief of the New York Yearly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends (Quakers) in Support of the Petition for a Writ of Certiorari of Daniel Taylor Jenkins (5 July 2007) [pdf version]

United States, Appelant v. Edwin D. Lee

United States Supreme Court decision in United States, Appellant, v. Edwin D. Lee, 23 February 1982

Rosa Covington Packard

United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit

The Amicus Brief of the New York Yearly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends (Quakers) in Support of Rosa C. Packard before the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit

United States Supreme Court

The Petition for Writ of Certiorari in the case of Rosa Covington Packard, Petitioner, v. United States of America, Respondent
Petitioner's Reply to Brief in Opposition in the case of Rosa Covington Packard, Petitioner, v. United States of America, Respondent
The Amicus Brief of the New York Yearly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends (Quakers) in Support of Rosa C. Packard before the Supreme Court of the United States

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Priscilla Adams

Italy

Success in Italy: COs Achieve Nonmilitary Tax Option*

Appendix 3 TRIAL AGAINST ITALIAN WAR TAX RESISTERS

Netherlands

The Judgement of the Supreme Court of the Netherlands

"The Judgement of the Supreme Court of the Netherlands, Dated 26 April 2000, NR. 33.734"

J.v.K. and C.M.G.v.K.-S.

English: United Nations Human Rights Committee's "Decisions: Communication No. 483/1991," 23 July 1992 (Read the PDF version in a new window.)

Español: "Decisión del Comité de Derechos Humanos . . ., 23 de julio de 1992"

Republic of Korea

Yeo-Bum Yoon and Myung-Jin Choi 2006

United Nations Human Rights Committee

"Annex: Views of the Human Rights Committee under article 5, paragraph 4, of the Optional Protocol to the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights: Communications Nos. 1321/2004 and 1322/2004," 3 November 2006 (new window).

Reference:

"Briefing Paper: Quaker United Nations Office—Geneva: Conscientious Objection to Military Service: An Historic Decision", February 2007 (PDF file, new window)

Eu-min Jung et al

United Nations Human Rights Committee

"Annex: Views of the Human Rights Committee under article 5, paragraph 4, of the Optional Protocol to the International Covenant on Civil and Political rights (Ninety-eighth session) concerning Communications Nos. 1593 to 1603/2007," 23 March 2010 (PDF file, new window)

Reference:

"Written statement submitted by Friends World Committee for Consultation (Quakers), a non-governmental organization in general consultative status," 4 May 2010 (PDF, new window)

"Conscientious Objection to Military Service—Another Step Forward," by Derek Brett, CPTI UN Representative, Geneva

Spain

Joan Surroca, March 2006

Tribunal Superior de Justicia de Cataluña

English/Español: "Joan Surroca, March 2006"

UK

Tony Croft

European Commission of Human Rights

"Application N^o 10358/83: C. v/ the United Kingdom: Decision of 15 December 1983 on the admissibility of the application." (Read the PDF version in a new window, English and français.)

The Peace Tax Seven

European Court of Human Rights

The Application: "In the European Court of Human Rights, between Margaret Brenda Broughton, et al, Applicants, and United Kingdom, Respondent: Application Pursuant to Article 34 of the European Convention on Human Rights and Rules 45 and 47 of the Rules of the Court" (Read the PDF version in a new window.)

Reference:

"An Anglican Approach to War-Tax Refusal" (Read the PDF version in a new window.)

"Buddhism and Conscientious Objection to War" (Read the PDF version in a new window.)

"Quaker Faith and Conscientious Objection to Taxation for Military Purposes" (Read the PDF version in a new window.)

More documentation and legal information is to be found on the Peace Tax Seven Web site (new window).