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39 matching items found between Jan 1985 and Dec 1989. Furthermore, there are 78 matching items for all time not shown.
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Oct 27, 1989
Court rejects challenges to award in Scientology case — Los Angeles Times (California)
More: link
Type: Press
Author(s): Philip Hager
Source: Los Angeles Times (California)
Lawsuit: State justices let stand an appellate ruling that a 'preposterous' $30 million in damages for a former church member be reduced to $2.5 million. SAN FRANCISCO — The state Supreme Court on Thursday rejected challenges to a ruling that dramatically reduced a jury award of $30 million against the Church of Scientology for coercive practices that drove a former member to the edge of insanity and bankruptcy. The high court let stand a decision by the state Court of Appeal ...
Aug 5, 1989
Ex-Scientologist calls church a moneymaker, not a religion — Journal Sentinel (Milwaukee)
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Type: Press
Author(s): Chester Sheard
Source: Journal Sentinel (Milwaukee)
Claims that the Church of Scientology is a religion are false, a former member charged. The church is an intelligence and information agency that uses mind manipulation, hypnotism and other methods to gradually turn members into agents to financially enhance the organization, said Larry Wollersheim, a former salesman and touring spokesman for the Church of Scientology. After spending 11 years as an active member in the church Wollersheim, 40, a native of Milwaukee, sued the organization In 1980 for intentional and ...
Jul 21, 1989
Torts / Scientology church liable for injuries from coercive religious practices — Daily Journal (Los Angeles, California)
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Jul 20, 1989
$30-million award in Scientology case cut — Los Angeles Times (California)
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Jul 20, 1989
Court affirms ruling against Scientologists — Daily Journal (Los Angeles, California)
Jul 19, 1989
Larry Wollersheim v. Church of Scientology of California — Daily Appellate Report
Jul 18, 1989
Decision: Wollersheim v. Church of Scientology (1989)
Jan 6, 1988
Religions now copyrighting names, teachings — Legal Intelligencer
Dec 28, 1987
Religious groups using copyright law [article incomplete] — Daily Journal (Los Angeles, California)
Nov 27, 1987
High court to hear appeal of suit accusing Moon's church of fraud — Los Angeles Times (California)
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Nov 23, 1987
Trying to bend manager' minds — CNN
Type: Press
Author(s): Jeremy Main
Source: CNN
(FORTUNE Magazine) – IN THEIR OCCASIONALLY feverish effort to become more competitive, American businessmen have grabbed for one restorative after another, some of them quite strange. None seems stranger than the human potential movement, which for years has offered the ordinary citizen a vaguely defined breakthrough experience: In a weekend or so, change your life forever. Now prophets of the movement have begun to argue that they can fundamentally change companies the same way, by appealing to emotions rather than reason. ...
Item contributed by: Ron Sharp
Apr 21, 1987
Scientologists must post $60 million bond — Los Angeles Herald Examiner (California)
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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 News
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Type: Press
Source: 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)
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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 ...
Jan 1, 1987
6 ex-Scientologists file $1-billion suit over funds, secrets — Los Angeles Times (California)
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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 ...
Aug 22, 1986
1,000 Scientologists rally // March on Capitol ends long journey to support bill — Sacramento Bee (California)
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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 ...
Aug 12, 1986
'Expert' turns bad trial into bad verdict — Journal-American
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Type: Press
Author(s): Ron Arnold
Source: Journal-American
Why do I have to spend so much time defending religions I don't belong to? I didn't really want a scrapbook of columns sticking up for persecuted Jews, Evangelical Christians, Muslims, Taoists, Native American Shamanists, Moonies and Scientologists, among others. The question that troubles me most, though, is why do I have to defend them from our own government? The reason, of course, is that I don't want the First Amendment repealed. And a Los Angeles jury did just that July ...
Jul 24, 1986
Scientology members protest $30-million damage award to ex-follower — Los Angeles Times (California)
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Type: Press
Author(s): Jerry Belcher
Source: Los Angeles Times (California)
Hundreds of Scientologists were alternately exhorted and entertained Wednesday in the Los Angeles Civic Center during a highly organized protest against a $30-million jury award, which they claimed threatens the freedom, not only of their church, but of all religions in this country. The daytime turnout for the protest peaked shortly before noon, with about 850 members of the Church of Scientology marching in front of the Los Angeles County Courthouse on North Hill Street, bearing signs such as "Religious Beliefs ...
Jul 23, 1986
Ex-Scientologist wins $30 million in church suit — Los Angeles Herald Examiner (California)
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Type: Press
Author(s): Liz Mullen
Source: Los Angeles Herald Examiner (California)
A Los Angeles Superior Court jury awarded $30 million to a former Scientologist, who claimed the church's religious practice of "auditing" caused him to suffer a nervous breakdown. Larry Wollersheim, 37, who was a member of the church for 11 years, was awarded $5 million in compensatory damages and $25 million in punitive damages by the 12-member jury. The trial started last February. "It's a tremendous verdict for human rights," said Leta Schlosser, Wollersheim's attorney. The Church of Scientology, she added, ...
Jul 23, 1986
Man is awarded $30-million in lawsuit against Scientology — St. Petersburg Times (Florida)
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Jul 23, 1986
Scientologists must pay $30 million to critical ex-member — Los Angeles Times (California)
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Type: Press
Author(s): Joel Sappell, Robert W. Welkos
Source: Los Angeles Times (California)
A Los Angeles Superior Court jury Tuesday awarded $30 million in damages to a former member of the Church of Scientology who said the organization intentionally drove him to the edge of insanity and ruined him financially for criticizing the group. The 12-0 verdict in favor of Larry Wollersheim brought gasps from the Scientologists who packed Judge Ronald Swearinger's court-room, as they had throughout the bitterly contested five-month-long trial. Some sobbed. Wollersheim was awarded $5 million in compensatory damages and $25 ...
May 14, 1986
2 charges dismissed in Scientology suit — New York Times
Type: Press
Source: New York Times
A judge has dismissed two key charges in a $25 million fraud suit brought by Larry Wollersheim, a former Scientologist who asserted the church wrecked him emotionally and financially with lies and harassment. The judge, Ronald Swearinger of Superior Court, threw out Mr. Wollersheim's claims of fraud and misrepresentation, two of the four causes of action in a 1980 civil suit that is now in its 12th week of trial. Mr. Wollersheim's attorney, Charles O'Reilly, said Judge Swearinger ruled Monday that ...
Item contributed by: Ron Sharp
May 11, 1986
Travolta lauds Scientology — Clearwater Sun (Florida)
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Type: Press
Source: Clearwater Sun (Florida)
[Picture / Caption: JOHN TRAVOLTA . . . supports sect] LOS ANGELES — Actor John Travolta showed up in court to support the Church of Scientology, and told reporters, "It's been the reason I've been able to survive Hollywood." The organization is fighting a Superior Court lawsuit by former member Larry Wollersheim, who accused it of fraud and claimed it destroyed him financially and mentally.
Apr 27, 1986
Suit challenges tactics of church — New York Times
More: nytimes.com
Type: Press
Author(s): Marcia Chambers
Source: New York Times
A former official of the Church of Scientology, testifying at the trial of his suit charging the church with fraud, says church staff members engaged in a pattern of lies, tricks and deception in efforts to keep him from disclosing how the organization operates. The former official, Larry Wollersheim, who says the church should pay him $25 million in damages because it ruined him financially and emotionally, has spent three weeks testifying before a Superior Court jury here. For its part, ...
Item contributed by: Ron Sharp
Apr 4, 1986
Inside Scientology — Finally [The minutement at the ready] — L.A. Weekly (California)
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Type: Press
Author(s): Ron Curran, Jennifer Pratt
Source: L.A. Weekly (California)
The Minutemen at the Ready [A 'suppressive person' is] Fair Game. May be deprived of property or injured by any means by a Scientologist without discipline of the Scientologist [sic]. May be tricked, sued or lied to or destroyed. —L. Ron Hubbard [Picture / Caption: "Minutemen" line courthouse halls.] On February 15, six police officers stood near the door of Leo Baeck Temple, awaiting the confrontation. They had been called by leaders of Freedom for All in Religion (FAIR), a group ...
Mar 5, 1986
Scientology lawyer defies court order for 'sacred' files — Los Angeles Herald Examiner (California)
Jan 28, 1986
Scientology founder L. Ron Hubbard dies — Daily News
Nov 6, 1985
Court documents revealed despite Scientology protest — Clearwater Sun (Florida)
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Type: Press
Author(s): Richard Benke
Source: Clearwater Sun (Florida)
LOS ANGELES — The Church of Scientology secretly teaches that 75 million years ago Earth was called Teegeeach and was among 90 planets ruled by Xemu, who spread his evil by thermonuclear bombs, according to court documents that sect members tried to prevent the public from seeing. Xemu, attempting to solve overpopulation problems, destroyed selected inhabitants of the planets and implanted the seeds of aberrant behavior in their spirits to affect future generations of mankind, according to the documents briefly placed ...
Nov 6, 1985
Scientology documents tell of ruler of 90 planets — Montreal Gazette
Nov 6, 1985
Secret Teachings: Papers Show Scientologists Blame Ancient Ruler for Many Human Ills — Post-Standard
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