Cases
The most widely noted case before the Court of Historical Review was in 1983, when it determined that the fortune cookie was invented in San Francisco, not Los Angeles. Participants in the case "wore yellow makeup and Celestial costumes and spoke in pidgin English as they presented the oral history underlying each side’s case".
Other verdicts of the court include:
- A ruling in 1983 that the Martini was invented in San Francisco, and not nearby Martinez, California. (The decision was later "reversed" by a less prominent mock court in Martinez.)
- A ruling in 1987 that chicken soup deserves its reputation as "Jewish penicillin"
- A ruling in 1990 that the legend of Cinderella originated in Italy, rather than France, China, or the United States
- Another ruling in 1990 that mystery author Dashiell Hammett did work as a detective for the Pinkerton's National Detective Agency
- A ruling in 1993 that Shoeless Joe Jackson was not guilty in the 1919 Black Sox scandal
- Another ruling in 1993 that Elvis Presley was, in fact, dead
- A ruling in 1997 that Lefty O'Doul deserves to be admitted into the Baseball Hall of Fame
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