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Debate over sect fades — Clearwater Sun (Florida)More: link
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Debbie Long Source:
Clearwater Sun (Florida) CLEARWATER — In 1975 the Church of Scientology, cloaked in secrecy, made this waterfront city its international headquarters. A lengthy outcry ensued when the public became aware the sect — under another name — bought a Clearwater landmark, the Fort Harrison Hotel. The Scientologists subsequently bought many other parcels of downtown Clearwater property, posting guards to keep the curious at bay. When the public and press asked questions about the aims of the Church of Scientology, sect leaders became mum about ...
Dec 28, 1987
Religious groups using copyright law [article incomplete] — Daily Journal (Los Angeles, California)
Dec 28, 1987
Ritalin controversy / A 'miracle drug' gets closer look — Los Angeles Times (California)
Dec 25, 1987
Scientology president — Glendale News-Press (California)
Nov 27, 1987
High court to hear appeal of suit accusing Moon's church of fraud — Los Angeles Times (California)More: pqasb.pqarchiver.com
Nov 26, 1987
Scientologists sued for $6 million in suicide of man — Los Angeles Times (California)More: pqasb.pqarchiver.com , xenu-directory.net
Nov 11, 1987
Scientologists lose bid for IRS records — Los Angeles Times (California)More: link
Type: Press
Author(s):
David G. Savage Source:
Los Angeles Times (California) WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court, rejecting an appeal filed by the Church of Scientology of California to obtain government tax records, ruled Tuesday that the public has no right to get information kept by the Internal Revenue Service. The tax agency "has no duty under the Freedom of Information Act" to disclose internal records, even if names and other confidential information could be easily deleted, Chief Justice William H. Rehnquist said. Civil rights attorneys denounced the unanimous decision, saying the ruling ...
Sep 29, 1987
Scientology suit lacking fraud facts, judge says — Los Angeles Times (California)More: link
Type: Press
Author(s):
Joel Sappell Source:
Los Angeles Times (California) 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 ...
Sep 23, 1987
Advertisement: Can bizarre aches and pains be caused by the mind? — Daily Journal (Los Angeles, California)
Aug 14, 1987
Churches' tax-exempt status being scrutinized — St. Petersburg Times (Florida)
Type: Press
Author(s):
Stephen Koff Source:
St. Petersburg Times (Florida) CLEARWATER — Filling rows of a hearing room as if they were waiting for the service to begin, some 25 Pentecostal ministers from as far as Jacksonville came on Thursday to watch their brethren do battle with the property appraiser. To Pinellas Property Appraiser Ron Schultz, it is the proof that they still deserve the exemption. Rev. W.S. Craig, pastor of the Apostolic United Pentecostal Church in St. Petersburg, said he went for 31 years without having to justify to the ...
Aug 9, 1987
[Advertisement] L. Ron Hubbard: Messiah or Madman? — Los Angeles Times (California)More: link
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Los Angeles Times (California) L. Ron Hubbard wrote the 1950 bestseller Dianetics, the Modern Science of Mental Health . It inspired a layman-oriented mental health movement which developed into Scientology, the most profitable of the money-making new religions. Hubbard was a bigamist who masterminded Watergate-style break-ins. He surrounded himself with adoring teenyboppers, uniformed in mini-skirts, bikini tops and high-heeled boots. He smoked opium and regarded himself as the successor to Aleister Crowley, self-proclaimed "Beast 666." These are but some of the facts about the man uncovered ...
Jul 30, 1987
Court ruling could affect local Scientology case — St. Petersburg Times (Florida)
Jul 29, 1987
Scientologists' loss of tax-exempt status upheld by U.S. court — Los Angeles Times (California)More: link
Type: Press
Author(s):
Kim Murphy Source:
Los Angeles Times (California) Concluding that L. Ron Hubbard, founder of the Church of Scientology of California, had "unfettered control" over millions of dollars in church assets, a federal appeals court Tuesday upheld the revocation of the church's tax-exempt status. In a ruling that rejected nearly every argument the church had raised, the U.S. 9th Circuit Court of Appeals said there is evidence that the late church founder held millions of dollars of church funds in private trust funds, Swiss bank accounts and in a ...
Jul 19, 1987
Scientologists lose court ruling on tax deductions for donations — Los Angeles Times (California)
Jul 3, 1987
Fees paid by Scientologists to church held deductible — Los Angeles Times (California)More: link
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Los Angeles Times (California) ST. LOUIS (AP) — A federal appeals court has ruled that donations made by Church of Scientology members as part of their religious practices may be claimed as a federal income tax deduction. The U.S. 8th Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that set fees paid by Scientologists during their church's individualized religious practices are deductible charitable contributions. The ruling is contrary to one reached recently by the U.S. 1st Circuit Court of Appeals in Boston, which decided the payments are not ...
Apr 21, 1987
Scientologists must post $60 million bond — Los Angeles Herald Examiner (California)More: link
Type: Press
Author(s):
Deborah Hastings Source:
Los Angeles Herald Examiner (California) The U.S. Supreme Court yesterday refused to exempt the Church of Scientology of California from posting a bond of up to $60 million while the church appeals a Los Angeles jury award. The organization contends the bond payment will drive it into bankruptcy. Without comment, the high court rejected the Scientology case, which sought to void state law requiring the church to post bond while it appeals a $30 million damages award to former Scientologist Larry Wollersheim, who claimed the church ...
Apr 21, 1987
Scientology appeal rejected — Daily NewsMore: link
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Daily News WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court let stand Monday a ruling that could force the Church Scientology of California to post a $60 million bond — an amount the church said would bankrupt it — to appeal a judgment against it. The court refused to hear arguments in the case, brought by the church seeking review of a California appeals court ruling. "We feel it's a grave injustice,” said Kathleen Thorn, president of the Church of Scientology of California. She refused to ...
Apr 21, 1987
Supreme court turns down Scientology plea / Way cleared for former member to start seizing church assets to satisfy award of $30 million — Los Angeles Times (California)More: scientology-lies.com , link
Type: Press
Author(s):
David G. Savage ,
Joel Sappell Source:
Los Angeles Times (California) The Supreme Court on Monday rebuffed pleas by the Church of Scientology of California for relief from having to post a bond of up to $60 million to guard its assets against seizure while it appeals a huge Los Angeles jury award. Scientology lawyers have argued that payment of the bond would plunge the church into bankruptcy. But the state court judge who presided over the jury trial contends that the controversial organization's claims of poverty are untrue. The Supreme Court's ...
Apr 16, 1987
$26 million in assets left by Scientology founder — San Francisco Chronicle (California)More: link
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San Francisco Chronicle (California) Associated Press San Luis Obispo L. Ron Hubbard, the Scientology founder and author who died last year, left more than $26 million in assets excluding trust funds, according to documents filed by his executor. Total assets listed in the inventory amount to $26,305,706. They include "$25 million even" in copyright and trademark materials and $1,305,706 in oil, gas and business investments, said attorney Charles Ogle of Morro Bay. The estate documents were prepared in Los Angeles by Norman F. Starkey, the ...
Apr 16, 1987
L. Ron Hubbard estate valued at $26 million — Los Angeles Times (California)More: link
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Los Angeles Times (California) SAN LUIS OBISPO — L. Ron Hubbard, the Scientology founder and author who died last year, left more than $26 million in assets, excluding trust funds, according to documents filed by the executor of his estate. Total assets listed in the inventory amount to $26,305,706. They include "$25 million even" in copyright and trademark materials and $1,305,706 in oil, gas and business investments, said attorney Charles Ogle of Morro Bay. The estate documents were prepared in Los Angeles by Norman F. ...
Feb 24, 1987
The Region / [The U.S. Supreme Court ruled that Church of Scientology scriptural documents are not a trade secret...] — Los Angeles Times (California)More: link
Jan 28, 1987
The Region / [U.S. Supreme Court has granted the Church of Scientology's appeal...] — Los Angeles Times (California)More: link
Jan 1, 1987
6 ex-Scientologists file $1-billion suit over funds, secrets — Los Angeles Times (California)More: link
Type: Press
Author(s):
Joel Sappell ,
Robert W. Welkos Source:
Los Angeles Times (California) Former members of the Church of Scientology filed a $1-billion class-action lawsuit against the organization Wednesday, accusing its late founder, L. Ron Hubbard, and a cadre of his most trusted aides of plundering church coffers, intimidating critics and breaching the confidentiality of sacred confessional folders. The lawsuit was filed in Los Angeles Superior Court at a time when the church had hoped that its legal wars with its critics had been put largely to rest. Two weeks ago, the organization reached ...
Dec 6, 1986
Church of Scientology of California v. Gerald Armstrong: Mutual release of all claims and settlement agreement More: gerryarmstrong.org
Dec 5, 1986
Search for salvation ended in death — San Jose Mercury NewsMore: link
Type: Press
Author(s):
David Schrieberg Source:
San Jose Mercury News [The following is from the article 'Search for Salvation Ended in Death', printed originally in the San Jose Mercury News, December 5, 1986. I have omitted some parts of the original, mostly those giving a general discussion of Scientology, and paraphrased others, since I don't have permission of the copyright holders. The author of the story is David Scrieberg. My discussion is enclosed in brackets, except for some analysis at the end.] Two years ago, confused and unsure of his future, ...
Dec 1, 1986
NAACP joins Scientology church in court battle — Jet (magazine)
Oct 14, 1986
20-Year-Old Gives Narconon $10,000 Check — Los Angeles Times (California)More: scientology-lies.com
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Los Angeles Times (California) A 20-year-old man who said his housecleaning business has made him a millionaire presented a $10,000 check Monday to Narconon, a Los Angeles drug rehabilitation program. Barry Minkow, owner of ZZZZ Best Inc., said the money will be used to help rehabilitate drug users who otherwise could not afford treatment. "I make things happen," said Minkow, who started his Reseda-based company while he was in the 10th grade at Cleveland High School and "too young to open a bank account." Minkow ...
Sep 15, 1986
Ads spur new interest in Hubbard's 'Dianetics' — St. Petersburg Times (Florida)More: news.google.com
Aug 23, 1986
Scientologists sail protest to Capitol — Los Angeles Herald Examiner (California)More: link
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Los Angeles Herald Examiner (California) SACRAMENTO (AP) — About 500 protesters went to the Capitol yesterday to demand exemption of churches from punitive damages in lawsuits. The Church of Scientology members and sympathizers sang songs from the 1960s black freedom protests in the South as they arrived in port after a 120-mile trip from San Francisco. A 78-foot sailing ship and others in the 30-vessel armada sported banners like, "The Sun Never Sets on Scientology." Clad in T-shirts proclaiming the effort a "Religious Freedom Crusade," they ...
Aug 22, 1986
1,000 Scientologists rally // March on Capitol ends long journey to support bill — Sacramento Bee (California)More: link
Type: Press
Author(s):
Clark Brooks Source:
Sacramento Bee (California) [Picture / Caption: Scientologists arrive Thrusday in Old Sacramento in a flotilla from San Francisco. The Tower Bridge had to be raised for many of the ships to pass, tying up traffic on both sides. About 1,000 Scientologists then marched to the state Capitol for a rally. Story on page B1.] Amid chants of "Religious freedom now," about 1,000 seafaring Scientologists docked Thursday in Old Sacramento and marched, single-file, to the state Capitol. They came in boats from San Francisco, completing ...
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