Griswold v. Driscoll

On behalf of a high school student, two high school teachers, and an umbrella cultural organization, a group of lawyers, including Harvey, filed a lawsuit in U.S. District Court on October 26, 2005. The lawsuit, Griswold et al. v. Driscoll et al. , is an important First Amendment case involving censorship from school reference materials, as a result of political pressure placed on school authorities.     

Case documents:

• Second Amended Complaint (without exhibits; filed August 31, 2006)
• The Amended Complaint (without exhibits)
• Plaintiffs' Opposition to Motion for Leave to Intervene (filed January 4, 2006)
• Defendants' Reply Memo in Support of Their Motion to Dismiss
• Defendant-Intervenors' Reply Memo in Opposition to Plaintiffs' Opposition to Defendant-Intervenors' Motion for Leave to Intervene
• Plaintiffs' Opposition to Defendants' Motion to Dismiss
• Plaintiffs' Surreply Memo in Support of Motion to Dismiss and Plaintiffs' Reply to Amici Briefs in Support of Same (4.3.06)
• Ajemian et al. Amicus Brief in Support of Defendants' Motion to Dismiss
• Amicus Brief of Armenian Bar, Irish Immigration Center, et al. in Support of Defendants' Motion to Dismiss

Press and other materials:

• Press release
• Wall Street Journal article (October 27, 2005) by Kara Scannell: Turk-Armenian Fight Over WWI History Goes to a U.S. Court
• Boston Globe article (October 28, 2005) by Shelley Murphy
• AP article (October 27, 2005) by Denise Lavoie
• Harvard Crimson article (November 2, 2005) by Laurence H. M. Holland
• Facing History and Our First Amendment, by Harvey Silverglate, Malick Ghachem, Norman Zalkind, and Philip Cormier, in the Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly (October 31, 2005).
• Boston Globe piece on plaintiff Ted Griswold.
• On November 20, NPR aired a piece about the lawsuit.
• An editorial written by Harvey and Norman Zalkind, two of the lawyers for the plaintiffs, was published in the Boston Globe.
• Lincoln-Sudbury High School history teacher Bill Schecter, one of the plaintiffs in Griswold v. Driscoll, penned a letter the ACLU of Massachusetts regarding the case.
• Cambridge Rindge & Latin history teacher Larry Aaronson and Lincoln-Sudbury High School history teacher Bill Schecter, both of whom are plaintiffs in Griswold v. Driscoll, wrote a letter to the organization Facing History and Ourselves about the case.
• A portrait of the plaintiffs and their legal team (copyright Elsa Dorfman ).