Court Records (1905–2017)

Records of court cases in which the Society, its officers or Jehovah's Witnesses were parties: libel suits of the Russell era (the Washington Post, the Brooklyn Daily Eagle and the "Miracle Wheat"), the 1918 Espionage Act trial of the Society's directors, the Moyle libel case (1943), the Walsh case in Scotland (1954), the Australian ban case (1943), later disputes such as the Supreme Court of Canada case on the review of a judicial committee (Wall, 2018), and the decisions of the U.S. Supreme Court in the Witness cases of 1938–1955 (from the official United States Reports), which shaped American law on freedom of religion, speech and the press. Court records are public documents; they show the evidence and testimony as given at the time.

These works were not published by the Watch Tower Society; see the Related Works section page for why they are in this library.

• Watch Tower Bible and Tract Society v. City of Allegheny (Decision, 1905)
• Russell v. Washington Post Company (Decision, 1908)
• The "Miracle Wheat" Trial: Russell v. Brooklyn Daily Eagle (1913)
• Russell v. Brooklyn Daily Eagle (Appeal Decision, 1915)
• Rutherford v. United States Correspondence Behind the Espionage Case (1918)
• Rutherford v. United States Trial Record (1918)
• Rutherford v. United States Appeals Court Reverses the Conviction (May 14, 1919)
• Rutherford v. United States Four Directors Tell Bethel About Prison (1919)
• Rutherford v. United States The Case of the IBSA (1919)
• Rutherford v. United States "The Facts": Petition for Executive Clemency (1919)
• Hearing of J. F. Rutherford, House of Representatives, 73rd Congress (1934)
• Nicholls v. Mayor and School Committee of Lynn (1937)
• Lovell v. City of Griffin, 303 U.S. 444 (1938)
• Schneider v. New Jersey, 308 U.S. 147 (1939)
• Cantwell v. Connecticut, 310 U.S. 296 (1940)
• Minersville School District v. Gobitis, 310 U.S. 586 (1940)
• Cox v. New Hampshire, 312 U.S. 569 (1941)
• Morante v. People of the State of New York (1941)
• Chaplinsky v. New Hampshire, 315 U.S. 568 (1942)
• Jones v. City of Opelika, 316 U.S. 584 (1942)
• Douglas v. City of Jeannette, 319 U.S. 157 (1943)
• Jones v. City of Opelika (Rehearing), 319 U.S. 103 (1943)
• Largent v. Texas, 318 U.S. 418 (1943)
• Martin v. City of Struthers, 319 U.S. 141 (1943)
• Murdock v. Commonwealth of Pennsylvania (U.S. Supreme Court, May 3, 1943)
• Taylor v. Mississippi, 319 U.S. 583 (1943)
• The Olin R. Moyle Libel Case Trial Record (1943)
• West Virginia State Board of Education v. Barnette, 319 U.S. 624 (1943)
• Adelaide Company of Jehovah's Witnesses Inc. v. The Commonwealth (1943–1944)
• Follett v. Town of McCormick, 321 U.S. 573 (1944)
• Prince v. Massachusetts, 321 U.S. 158 (1944)
• Estep v. United States, 327 U.S. 114 (1946)
• Marsh v. Alabama, 326 U.S. 501 (1946)
• Tucker v. Texas, 326 U.S. 517 (1946)
• Saia v. New York, 334 U.S. 558 (1948)
• Niemotko v. Maryland, 340 U.S. 268 (1951)
• Dickinson v. United States, 346 U.S. 389 (1953)
• Fowler v. Rhode Island, 345 U.S. 67 (1953)
• The Walsh Trial (1954), Part 1
• The Walsh Trial (1954), Part 2
• Sicurella v. United States, 348 U.S. 385 (1955)
• Paul v. Watchtower Bible and Tract Society (9th Circuit, 1987)
• Jehovah's Witnesses Cases in the U.S. Supreme Court (List, 1991)
• Law Society of Upper Canada v. Frank Mott-Trille Decision to Disbar (October 21, 1997)
• Watchtower v. Lorterdan Properties at Ramapo Property Dispute (2011)
• Cobb v. Brede (2012)
• Highwood Congregation v. Wall Factum of the Intervener Christian Legal Fellowship (Supreme Court of Canada, 2017)