This set of resources is this site's archive for the Kitzmiller, et al. v. Dover Area School District federal court case sometimes called "Scopes II" or the "Dover Panda Trial" by the media. At stake was a pro-intelligent design school board policy and the book Of Pandas and People that first introduced the term "intelligent design" as meaning a specific field of inquiry rather than incidental use as a descriptive term.
On December 20, 2005, the court ruled for the plaintiffs, against the school board, and against intelligent design. The victory was not just legal: the pro-intelligent design school board was replaced by the voters on November 8, 2005.
Trial documents
- Decision of the Court
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Decision in PDF format (off site)
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Decision in PDF format (off site)
- Plaintiffs' Findings of Fact and Conclusions of Law
- July 14 pre-trial hearing
- Trial transcripts
- Day 1, Morning, Part 1 (September 26, 2005)
- Day 1, Morning, Part 2 (September 26, 2005)
- Day 1, Afternoon (September 26, 2005)
- Day 2, Morning (September 27, 2005)
- Day 2, Afternoon
- Day 3, Morning (September 28, 2005)
- Day 3, Afternoon
- Day 4, Morning (September 29, 2005)
- Day 4, Afternoon
- There was no morning session for Day 5
- Day 5, Afternoon (September 30, 2005)
- Day 6, Morning (October 5, 2005)
- Day 6, Afternoon
- Day 7, Morning (October 6, 2005)
- Day 7, Afternoon
- Day 8, Morning (October 8, 2005)
- Bertha Spahr
- Brian Alters
- Day 8, Afternoon
- Day 9, Morning (October 14, 2005)
- Day 9, Afternoon
- Day 10, Morning (October 17, 2005)
- Day 10, Afternoon
- Day 11, Morning (October 18, 2005)
- Day 11, Afternoon
- Day 12, Morning (October 19, 2005)
- Day 12, Afternoon
- There was no morning session on Day 13.
- Day 13, Afternoon (October 20, 2005)
- Day 14, Morning (October 21, 2005)
- Day 14, Afternoon
- Day 15, Morning (October 24, 2005)
- Day 15, Afternoon
- Day 16, Morning
(October 27, 2005)
- William Buckingham direct examination (hostile plaintiff witness called out-of-turn)
- Day 16, Afternoon
- William Buckingham cross-examination
- Heidi Bernhard-Bubb direct examination (reporter called by plaintiffs out-of-turn)
- Day 17, Morning (October 28, 2005)
- Heidi Bernhard-Bubb cross-examination
- Heidi Bernhard-Bubb redirect examination
- Joseph S. Maldonado direct examination (reporter and final out-of-turn witness)
- Joseph S. Maldonado cross-examination
- Day 17, Afternoon
- Heather Geesey direct examination
- Heather Geesey cross-examination
- Heather Geesey redirect examination
- Heather Geesey recross-examination
- Heather Geesey examination by the court
- Heather Geesey 2nd redirect examination
- Heather Geesey 2nd recross-examination
- "I don't know what you could possibly hope to achieve"
- Heather Geesey 3rd redirect examination
- Heather Geesey 3rd recross-examination
- Michael Baksa direct examination (continued from day 14)
- Day 18, Morning (October 31, 2005)
- Day 18, Afternoon
- Day 19, Morning (November 2, 2005)
- Day 19, Afternoon
- Day 20, Morning (November 3, 2005)
- Michael Baksa redirect examination
- Michael Baksa recross-examination
- Michael Baksa examination by the court
- Michael Baksa 2nd redirect examination
- Defense asks to be allowed to treat Robert Linker as a hostile witness
- Robert Linker direct examination
- Robert Linker cross-examination
- Robert Linker redirect examination
- Robert Linker recross examination
- Day 20, Afternoon
- Day 21, Morning (November 4, 2005)
- Day 21, Afternoon
This Archive also has an article, The Discovery Institute Quote Mines Judge Jones, that discusses some misleading creationist quoting of the judge in this case. It is part of a larger effort to debunk the evolution quotes used by evolution deniers of all sorts.
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