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Scientology suit lacking fraud facts, judge says

Title: Scientology suit lacking fraud facts, judge says
Date: Tuesday, 29 September 1987
Publisher: Los Angeles Times (California)
Author: Joel Sappell
Main source: articles.latimes.com
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A Los Angeles Superior Court judge has ruled that there is insufficient evidence in a $1-billion lawsuit against the Church of Scientology to support charges that two corporations helped the religion's founder, L. Ron Hubbard, plunder church coffers. The action last Friday by Judge Norman R. Dowds undercut a key portion of the class-action lawsuit, filed in December by a group of disaffected church members who claim to represent 400 ex-Scientologists. The suit alleged that a profit-making firm run by high-ranking ... [Read the rest at articles.latimes.com]