his motion to have the requirement to take the oath struck down and his appeal to the Supreme Court was dismissed. In 2007, Roach again sued, this time as a class action. On May 17, 2007, Justice Edward Belobaba of the Ontario Superior Court ruled that Roach could proceed with the lawsuit, dismissing a Crown motion to have the action quashed as frivolous and vexatious. On February 19, 2008, the appeal by the federal government was dismissed by judges at the Court of Appeal for Ontario and the case went before the Ontario Superior Court. Roach's case was dismissed by the court in January, 2009. Roach again went to the courts in 2012 with another class action suit to argue the oath of allegiance to the sovereign is unconstitutional. On June 18, the Ontario Superior Court permitted the case's continuance. The case was dismissed in September, 2013. Death Roach died from malignant brain cancer on October 2, 2012 in Toronto. References Lawyers in Ontario Black Canadian activists Canadian civil rights lawyers Trinidad and Tobago emigrants to Canada University of Toronto Faculty of Law alumni University of Saskatchewan alumni Canadian republicans 1933 births 2012 deaths Deaths from brain tumor Black Canadian lawyers