 On 24 July 2003, the European Court of Human Rights published its decision in "Karner v. Austria", which was submitted on 24 July 1997.The applicant, who died in 2000 while the case was pending, was taken to court in 1995 by his landlord who wanted to terminate the tenancy after Karner's same-sex partner died.Austrian law provided that family members had a right to succeed to a tenancy.