{"id":41099,"date":"2010-08-12T05:07:00","date_gmt":"2010-08-12T05:07:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.epress.am\/2010\/08\/12\/massachusetts-court-upholds-ruling-to-allow-armenian-genocide-literature-in-schools\/"},"modified":"2010-08-12T05:07:00","modified_gmt":"2010-08-12T05:07:00","slug":"massachusetts-court-upholds-ruling-to-allow-armenian-genocide-literature-in-schools","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/2010\/08\/12\/massachusetts-court-upholds-ruling-to-allow-armenian-genocide-literature-in-schools.html","title":{"rendered":"Massachusetts Court Upholds Ruling to Allow Armenian Genocide Literature in Schools"},"content":{"rendered":"

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A U.S. appeals court in Massachusetts on Wednesday upheld a lower court ruling that prevented the insertion of literature denying a genocide against Armenians into a state school curriculum, AP reports.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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The Armenian Assembly of America said the ruling “marks a major defeat” for a 2005 lawsuit brought by the Assembly of Turkish American Associations, or ATAA.<\/p>\n

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A lower court in December 2009 dismissed the lawsuit brought by ATAA, which appealed the decision in June of the same year.<\/p>\n

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The appeals court said Wednesday that the Guide on Armenian Genocide instruction “fit into the curriculum classification … [and] that law would not allow the genocide denial actions that the plaintiffs sought.”<\/p>\n

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The ruling “sends a clear message to Turkey and its revisionist allies that history cannot be rewritten to further Ankara’s state-sponsored denial campaign,” said Armenian Assembly Board of Trustees Chair Hirair Hovnanian.<\/p>\n

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