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Nov 18, 1993
Talk show host cancels show to testify — Ann Arbor NewsMore: link
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Chong W. Pyen Source:
Ann Arbor News At trial over Scientologist's suit, Sally Jessy Raphael testifies to defend herself and freedom of the press. Sally Jessy Raphael canceled her show today to testify in an Ann Arbor courtroom, saying she wants to defend the freedom of the press, but she also has to defend herself. The television talk show host is one of several defendants in a $72 million lawsuit brought by a member of the Church of Scientology who claimed Raphael's show maligned her and her faith. ...
Nov 18, 1993
TV talk-show host will testify in Ann Arbor — Detroit Free PressMore: link
Type: Press
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Maryanne George Source:
Detroit Free Press Tabloid TV queen Sally Jessy Raphael, who peers through her trademark red eyeglasses and titillates talk-show audiences with tough questions, will be asked to answer some zingers herself today in Ann Arbor. Raphael is to testify in a high-profile, lawsuit stemming from an episode about the Church of Scientology. Church staffer Dorothy Dickerson, 61, of Albion claims Raphael invaded her privacy and caused her emotional distress in 1991, after a conversation between Dickerson and her children was secretly recorded by a ...
Nov 9, 1993
Talk show host may testify here in Scientology suit — Ann Arbor NewsMore: link
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Ann Arbor News Woman charges Sally Jessy Raphael's airing of a conversation filmed here violated her privacy. On a warm June Sunday two years ago, Dorothy Jean Dickerson was teaching a Sunday school class when she had a surprise visit from her two grown children. They walked over to a little park in downtown Ann Arbor and talked about her religious life and how she had been out of touch with her children. The conversation, part of the children's desperate attempt to get their ...
Oct 1, 1993
Tom Cruise: No more Mr. Nice Guy — Los Angeles (magazine)More: link
Type: Press
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Rod Lurie Source:
Los Angeles (magazine) There is a story that Steve Tisch, producer of the 1983 coming-of-age classic Risky Business , the film that would eventually vault Tom Cruise into the warm aerie of megastardom, likes to tell. After a tough day of shooting, Cruise approached Tisch, his partner Jon Avnet and the film's director, Paul Brickman. It seemed Cruise was concerned: He felt that his costar, Rebecca DeMornay, a newcomer who had snatched the part of sexy hooker Lana from Michelle Pfeiffer, was miscast. Things just ...
Sep 1, 1993
Catch a rising star — Premiere (magazine)More: link
Sep 1, 1993
US deprogrammer on kidnap charge, while "cult busters" organise here — New Dawn (Australia)
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New Dawn (Australia) Rick Ross, self-confessed "cult deprogrammer" and ATF advisor in the Waco holocaust has been charged, in the United States, with the 1991 abduction of a Christian teenage boy. Ross and his accomplices, Mark Workman and Charles Simpson, were charged in July with unlawful imprisonment in the abduction of Jason Scott. If convicted they face a maximum penalty of 5 years in prison. The charges against the three were the most recent in a string of legal actions brought against deprogrammers by ...
Aug 28, 1993
Scientology's words to hit the airwaves — St. Petersburg Times (Florida)
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St. Petersburg Times (Florida) Now [Nancy] Cartwright is appearing on television in another role: a 30-minute television program that the Church of Scientology hopes will expose more people to [L. Ron] Hubbard's message and increase the number of people seeking Scientology counseling. Now, next to those telephone-order woks and real-estate courses comes Dianetics: The Modern Science of Mental Health , the 1950 self-help classic from Hubbard, whose writings and research are the gospel of Scientology. The group has its spiritual headquarters in Clearwater. Scientology is never ...
Jun 14, 1993
Church's litany of lawsuits — The National Law JournalMore: link
Type: Press
Author(s):
Andrew Blum Source:
The National Law Journal Scientology's leaders say the best defense is a good offense. DID THE CHURCH of Scientology kill a judge's dog during a trial? Did the judge, who is now dead, think church members did? Did that lead him to be prejudiced, and bias the jury against the church? These and other issues are part of an intense battle by the church's litigation machine to overturn what remains of a $30 million verdict won in 1986 by former church member Larry Wollersheim. Mr. ...
May 17, 1993
Church members file suit against professor, officials — Daily Bruin (University of California)More: link
Type: Press
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Nancy Hsu Source:
Daily Bruin (University of California) Two UCLA extension students in the Church of Scientology have filed suit against UCLA professor Louis Jolyon West, the Board of Regents and Chancellor Charles Young for allegedly using taxpayer money to fund anti-religious activities.
The university has yet to respond to the suit filed last month with the Santa Monica Superior Court.
John Van Dyke and Mario Majorski charge that, while on the University of California payroll, West used his position to organize anti-religious seminars and two groups that target ...
Apr 27, 1993
From Salem to Waco, by way of the nazis — Los Angeles Times (California)More: link
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Alexander Cockburn Source:
Los Angeles Times (California) The Davidians were a 'cult,' and thus exempted from justice and normal rules of evidence. Rodney King's beating captured the nation's attention for more than a year. The extermination of more than 80 Americans during an armed attack by federal agents outside Waco is already slipping off the front pages. But then, King is a black man whose maltreatment came to symbolize police violence against the poor. The Davidians were "a cult," and thus exempted from justice and compassion. Atty. Gen. ...
Mar 21, 1993
Bittersweet - Cocolat and Scientology / Some of Cocolat's ex-workers claim that the company's newest ingredient is Scientology — San Francisco Examiner (California)More: stop-wise.biz , link
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Erin McCormick Source:
San Francisco Examiner (California) Some of Cocolat's ex-workers claim that the company's newest ingredient is Scientology by Erin McCormick of the Examiner Staff It was once the sweetheart of the Bay Area business world - a woman-run chocolate company that grew from a single storefront to a national success. Now, two years since an employee's embezzlement forced the sale of Cocolat Chocolate Co., an unlikely mix is brewing at the company's Hayward plant: Scientology and chocolate. The mixture has been volatile. Cocolat is the latest ...
Mar 7, 1993
Cult awareness and education must be taught — Daily NewsMore: link
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Cynthia Kisser Source:
Daily News THE drama of David Koresh that has been played on the front pages of newspapers and on the televisions in living rooms across America has stirred many troublesome questions about cults. Groups such as Koresh's Branch Davidians are certainly not a new phenomenon. And the real story is not that this violence has occurred, but that there are many other groups in society that could turn to such dangerous behavior. It is true, however, that there are some groups that are ...
Feb 26, 1993
Daily Appellate Report Summaries [Philip A. Hart v. Cult Awareness Network] — Daily Journal (Los Angeles, California)
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