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Jun 13, 2002
Scientology turncoat taken to task — St. Petersburg Times (Florida)
Type: Press
Author(s): Deborah O'Neil
Source: St. Petersburg Times (Florida)
The millionaire testifying on behalf of the church "is in all manner of trouble," a judge says. ST. PETERSBURG — New England millionaire Robert Minton came forward recently to say he wanted to set the record straight about lies he told in a wrongful-death lawsuit against the Church of Scientology. But his confessions and testimony may bring him a heap of new legal problems. Judge Susan Schaeffer said Wednesday that Minton could be in serious trouble with her, the State Attorney's ...
Item contributed by: Ron Sharp
Jun 11, 2002
Scientology hearing plods along — St. Petersburg Times (Florida)
Type: Press
Author(s): Deborah O'Neil
Source: St. Petersburg Times (Florida)
Monday was supposed to be Day One of the long-delayed wrongful death trial against the Church of Scientology. Instead, it was Day 22 of a hearing to throw out the lawsuit that blames the church for the 1995 death of Scientologist Lisa McPherson. The hearing, which began May 2 and now boasts nearly 300 exhibits, is not nearly over. Judge Susan Schaeffer has set aside most of this week and next for the proceeding. The church is accusing attorney Ken Dandar, ...
Jun 7, 2002
Spielberg and Cruise dream team might make 'Minority Report' a winner — Seattle Post-Intelligencer
Type: Press
Source: Seattle Post-Intelligencer
As part of the multimillion campaigns by which motion pictures are promoted to the public, there's nothing particularly unusual about a major star or director coming to Seattle to schmooze the local press. Indeed, that parade never seems to let up. But an appearance here earlier this week by both Steven Spielberg and Tom Cruise – Hollywood's biggest director and star, after all – was a dazzling media event that made the city's movie press forget for a while that there ...
Item contributed by: Ron Sharp
Jun 2, 2002
Separating belief and business — St. Petersburg Times (Florida)
Type: Press
Author(s): Deborah O'Neil
Source: St. Petersburg Times (Florida)
Home is a pair of waterfront mansions valued at $3.8-million on a gated Belleair island. His ride to work is a sleek Mercedes S600. Retail: $100,000. He has a $6.6-million getaway in Aspen, Colo. He's refurbishing two New York City office buildings he bought for $41-million. Bryan Zwan has become wealthy since founding Digital Lightwave 12 years ago. Last fall, he joined Bill Gates and Warren Buffett on the Forbes list of the 400 richest Americans. Zwan, 54, exudes the friendliness, ...
Item contributed by: Ron Sharp
Jun 2, 2002
The CEO and his church — St. Petersburg Times (Florida)
Type: Press
Author(s): Deborah O'Neil, Jeff Harrington
Source: St. Petersburg Times (Florida)
Months of interviews and thousands of pages of court papers show the effect that influential church members had on a Clearwater company that was a darling of the dot-com boom. It was New Year's Eve 1997 when Digital Lightwave's chief, Bryan Zwan, made his biggest deal: a $9-million contract for his signature product, a 10-pound device that tests telephone lines. At 5:30 p.m., Zwan phoned his production staff and gave them a tall order: Ship the 308 units right away. It ...
Item contributed by: Ron Sharp
May 30, 2002
37th Parliament, 1st Session // Special Committee on Non-Medical Use of Drugs
Type: Document
[...] Mr. Brad Melnychuk (Executive Director, Association for Better Living and Education (ABLE Canada)): Thank you. I want to start out by saying a little bit more about who I am. I am the executive director of ABLE Canada, the Association for Better Living and Education. This is an organization that's responsible for various charities and non-profits. One of them is Narconon. I'm also chairman of the board of Narconon Incorporated. By the way, don't confuse Narconon with Narcotics Anonymous; it ...
May 16, 2002
Follow that story // Eighty-six million dimes — Denver Westword News
Type: Press
Author(s): Alan Prendergast
Source: Denver Westword News
A 22-year legal battle came to an abrupt end last week when the Church of Scientology paid $8.67 million to one of its harshest critics: a former member who claimed the church had harassed him for years and driven him "to the brink of insanity." The settlement between the church's California organization and former Boulder resident Lawrence Wollersheim is notable not only for its size, but for its public nature. In the past, litigation involving the controversial "new religion"—founded by science-fiction ...
Item contributed by: Ron Sharp
May 11, 2002
After 22 years, church pays damages to ex-member — The Age (Australia)
Type: Press
Author(s): Richard Leiby
Source: The Age (Australia)
Nearly 22 years ago, Lawrence Wollersheim, a disaffected member of the Church of Scientology, filed a lawsuit in Los Angeles accusing the church of mental abuse that pushed him to the brink of suicide. Teams of lawyers and various rulings came and went, all the way to the US Supreme Court. Judgments against the church hit $US30 million ($A55 million), then dropped to $US2.5 million. But the Church of Scientology never paid - until Thursday, when officials wrote a cheque for ...
Item contributed by: Ron Sharp
May 11, 2002
Church of Scientology pays $8.6M in legal dispute — USA Today
Type: Press
Source: USA Today
LOS ANGELES (AP) — The Church of Scientology has agreed to pay a former member more than $8.6 million to resolve a lawsuit filed nearly 22 years ago. In his 1980 lawsuit, Lawrence Wollersheim accused the church of causing him to develop bipolar disorder and to contemplate suicide. A jury in 1986 awarded him $30 million, an amount reduced on appeal to $2.5 million and upheld by the Supreme Court in 1994. Church officials on Thursday handed over a check for ...
Item contributed by: Ron Sharp
May 10, 2002
Church settles suit after 22 years / Ex-Scientologist who won judgment collects $8.6 million — San Francisco Chronicle (California)
Type: Press
Author(s): Richard Leiby
Source: San Francisco Chronicle (California)
Nearly 22 years ago, Lawrence Wollersheim, a disaffected member of the Church of Scientology, filed a lawsuit in Los Angeles accusing the church of mental abuse that pushed him to the brink of suicide. Teams of lawyers and various rulings came and went, all the way to the U.S. Supreme Court. Judgments against the church hit $30 million, then dropped to $2.5 million. But the Church of Scientology never paid — until Thursday, when officials wrote a check for more than ...
Item contributed by: Ron Sharp
May 10, 2002
Ex-Scientologist collects $8.7 million in 22-year-old case — Washington Post
Type: Press
Author(s): Richard Leiby
Source: Washington Post
Nearly 22 years ago, Lawrence Wollersheim, a disaffected member of the Church of Scientology, filed a lawsuit in Los Angeles accusing the church of mental abuse that pushed him to the brink of suicide. Teams of lawyers and various rulings came and went, all the way to the U.S. Supreme Court. Judgments against the church hit $30 million, then dropped to $2.5 million. But the Church of Scientology never paid — until yesterday, when officials wrote a check for more than ...
Item contributed by: Ron Sharp
May 8, 2002
Letters from our readers // Scientology neighbors will benefit — Herald Tribune
More: news.google.com
Type: Press
Source: Herald Tribune
I am responding to the article "Scientology may make West Tampa home" by Shannon Behnken of the Tampa Tribune and published April 25 in the Herald-Tribune. I was interviewed by Ms. Behnken but her data is not entirely correct. What I said was that if we moved into the area we would enjoy meeting the neighbors and helping them with their ventures. We do pay taxes on the Andres Diaz building, which we purchased in October. We have honored the leases ...
May 5, 2002
Event log [re. death threat from someone at Church of Spiritual Technology]
More: link
Type: Document
[...] Begin time: 05/05/2002 17:29:30 End time: 05/05/2002 18:00:00 [...] Classification: THRX Disposition: N Staff: Z GORTON Event: 02-005875 Time: 0510512002 17:29:30 Call Taker: L CASTLEBERRY Location: 18950 GRIZZLY MINE RD, TUOLUMNE RP: MCNAIRN, JANE Synopsis: RP STATES THAT RICHARD ODOM, WHO LIVES NEXT TO THE CHURCH OF SPIRITUAL TECHNOLOGY, HAS BEEN RECEIVING VERBAL DEATH THREATS. DISPATCH WAS UTL ON ANY EVENTS SHOWING ODOM AS THE RP OF THREATS, BUT RP IS CONCERNED AND REQUESTING CONTACT BECAUSE IT HAS COME BACK ...
May 3, 2002
Allegations won't alter church suit — St. Petersburg Times (Florida)
Type: Press
Author(s): Deborah O'Neil
Source: St. Petersburg Times (Florida)
Regardless of legal misconduct claims, a judge says a wrongful death suit against the Church of Scientology is going to trial. ST. PETERSBURG — A wrongful death lawsuit against the Church of Scientology probably won't be dismissed because of recent allegations of legal misconduct, a judge indicated Thursday. A hearing resumes this morning on a motion to remove attorney Ken Dandar, who represents the estate of Lisa McPherson, a church member who died in 1995 while in the care of Scientologists ...
Item contributed by: Ron Sharp
May 2, 2002
Affidavit of Jesse Prince
More: groups.google.com
Type: Press
IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE SIXTH JUDICIAL CIRCUIT IN AND FOR PINELLAS COUNTY, STATE OF FLORIDA GENERAL CIVIL DIVISION Case No. 00-5682-C1 Section 11 ESTATE OF LISA McPHERSON, by and through the Personal Representative, DELL LIEBREICH Plaintiff, vs. CHURCH OF SCIENTOLOGY FLAG SERVICE ORGANIZATION, INC.; JANIS JOHNSON; ALAIN KARTUZINSKI; and DAVID HOUGHTON, Defendants. —– APRIL 2002 AFFIDAVIT OF JESSE PRINCE STATE OF FLORIDA COUNTY OF HILLSBOROUGH BEFORE ME, the undersigned authority, personally appeared JESSE PRINCE, who after being duly sworn ...
Apr 30, 2002
Medical examiner needs to rebuild credibility of office — St. Petersburg Times (Florida)
Type: Press
Source: St. Petersburg Times (Florida)
It is unknown whether [Wood] and [Marie Hansen]'s conduct simply was inept or disturbingly conspiratorial in the zeal to hold someone accountable for the death of a child. Their sloppy records in the Long case include listing the wrong gender for the baby and contradictory accounts of the existence of subarachnoid hemorrhage - bleeding in the brain. Inexplicably, the autopsy report contains no documentation of the baby's pneumonia-filled lungs. Wood, who approved Hansen's autopsy of Long, has little credibility left. Her ...
Item contributed by: Ron Sharp
Apr 29, 2002
Church targets lawsuit attorney — St. Petersburg Times (Florida)
Type: Press
Author(s): Deborah O'Neil
Source: St. Petersburg Times (Florida)
Scientology tries to end a lawsuit by having the plaintiff's attorney in the case removed. CLEARWATER – The Church of Scientology is rolling out an aggressive set of legal maneuvers aimed at wiping out one of its biggest headaches: the lawsuit blaming the church for the 1995 death of Lisa McPherson. The church is zeroing in on Tampa attorney Ken Dandar, who in representing McPherson's family has mustered an unrelenting challenge costing the church millions and fueling unending bad publicity. Accusing ...
Item contributed by: Ron Sharp
Apr 25, 2002
EarthLink's global odyssey // The ultimate ISP survivor faces a crossroads in broadband — CNET
Type: Press
Author(s): John Borland
Source: CNET
In 1993, Sky Dayton was "pulling his hair out" trying to get online–so he bought 10 modems and set up his own Internet service provider, named EarthLink a year later. In nearly a decade since then, EarthLink Networks has grown into the country's third-largest ISP, trailing only America Online and Microsoft's MSN. But Dayton is still frustrated. "We're approaching a tipping point where you have to have broadband–where if you don't have it it's like not having running water," said the ...
Item contributed by: Ron Sharp
Apr 25, 2002
Events occur more quickly on the Net — Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
Type: Press
Author(s): David Radin
Source: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
Maybe the Internet really does work in "Internet time," a unit that goes much faster than the real world. I never believed that Internet time was a real thing. It was a way for consultants to rationalize how quickly the Internet sucked up investor money. The common wisdom is that things happen more quickly on the Internet. That's why Netscape grew so large so quickly; and why development of Internet software always seemed to go faster than the development of other ...
Item contributed by: Ron Sharp
Apr 25, 2002
Scientology Church fights Google — BBC News
Type: Press
Author(s): Kevin Anderson
Source: BBC News
The Church of Scientology has taken its long-running battle against the distribution of its material on internet sites - especially sites critical of the church - to Google, one of the most popular search sites on the internet. Google catalogues more than two billion pages on the internet, but cyber civil libertarians cried foul when the site removed links to a website called Operation Clambake, due to a legal challenge from the Church of Scientology. The Operation Clambake site portrays the ...
Apr 22, 2002
New Economy; A copyright dispute with the Church of Scientology is forcing Google to do some creative linking — New York Times
Type: Press
Author(s): David F. Gallagher
Source: New York Times
GOOGLE, the company behind the popular Web search engine, has been playing a complicated game recently that involves the Church of Scientology and a controversial copyright law. Legal experts say the episode highlights problems with the law that can make companies or individuals liable for linking to sites they do not control. And it has turned Google, whose business is built around a database of two billion Web pages, into a quiet campaigner for the freedom to link. The church sent ...
Item contributed by: Ron Sharp
Apr 14, 2002
Reader Views // . . . Improving Society — Orlando Sentinel
Type: Press
Source: Orlando Sentinel
As a Scientologist, I was encouraged by Mayor Glenda Hood's op-ed piece regarding Leadership Florida's initiative, "Faces of Florida," which she co-chairs and whose goal is to curtail prejudice. As a new religion, Scientology has come up against discrimination from time to time. Discriminating against a religion is not a new activity for prejudiced individuals. Having a group such as Faces of Florida promoting communication between citizens of diverse backgrounds whether they be religious, racial or geographic will certainly improve our ...
Apr 12, 2002
Google Begins Making DMCA Takedowns Public — Linux Journal
Type: Press
Author(s): Don Marti
Source: Linux Journal
Attention DMCA lawyers: Try to remove a web site from Google's index and you'll probably just make it more popular. In an apparent response to criticism of its handling of a threatening letter from a Church of Scientology lawyer, the popular search engine Google has begun to make so-called "takedown" letters public. DMCA-censored pages are now two clicks and a cut-and-paste away from the regular search results. The full text of two new letters to Google, dated April 9 and 10, ...
Item contributed by: Ron Sharp
Apr 3, 2002
A night of engrams and clears / At the Scientologists' birthday bash for the late L. Ron Hubbard, it all comes down to the e-meter — Salon
Type: Press
Author(s): Sara Kelly
Source: Salon
Apr 3, 2002 | Imagine my surprise at receiving an invitation to a dead man's birthday party; who knew they even threw those anymore? Birthday boy L. Ron Hubbard – LRH, in Scientology speak – would've been 91 if he hadn't "dropped his body" right smack in the middle o f Reagan's second term. The Church of Scientology wanted me to come help celebrate. A few days after I RSVP'd, a Scientology P.R. flack called back to calmly rescind my invitation. ...
Item contributed by: Ron Sharp
Mar 31, 2002
Google Refuses Ad for Critical Site
Type: Blog
Author(s): Kristi Wachter
Mar 22, 2002
Google removes anti-Scientology Web links — CBC News
Type: Press
Source: CBC News
The Google search engine has delisted some Web pages that are critical of the Church of Scientology. Google said it had no choice because the church had threatened legal action if the Web sites stayed listed on Google. Free speech advocates said the law the church used to get the pages removed, the Digital Millenium Copyright Act, is too powerful and may infringe on freedom of speech. The delisted Web pages are on Operation Clambake, a Web site that opposes the ...
Item contributed by: Ron Sharp
Mar 22, 2002
Scientologists force closure of ISP's Internet connection — ZDNet
Type: Press
Author(s): Matt Loney
Source: ZDNet
The apparent campaign by the Church of Scientology to stamp out criticism on the Internet resulted in the ISP that hosts a Web site targeted by the Church for its critical standpoint having its upstream connection cut off. Netherlands-based ISP Xtended Internet said its connection to the Internet was terminated by its provider after threats of legal action from the Church. Paul Wouters, managing director of Xtended Internet, said he believed this was the first time an ISP had suffered such ...
Item contributed by: Ron Sharp
Mar 21, 2002
Cult forces Google to remove critical links — ZDNet
Type: Press
Author(s): Matt Loney
Source: ZDNet
Google was accused on Wednesday of effectively removing a Web site that is critical of the Scientology cult from the Web, after it told the site that it was deleting links from its search engine. Andreas Heldal-Lund, Webmaster of the Xenu.net Web site, said in a Usenet posting that Google was removing links to the site, which bills itself as Operation Clambake: The fight against the Church of Scientology on the Net. The term Operation Clambake comes in part, according to ...
Item contributed by: Ron Sharp
Mar 21, 2002
Google pulls anti-Scientology links — CNET
Type: Press
Author(s): Matt Loney
Source: CNET
Google was accused Wednesday of effectively removing from the Internet a Web site that is critical of the Church of Scientology after it deleted links to some of the site's pages from its search engine. The popular search company said it removed the links after it received a copyright-infringement complaint from the Church of Scientology. Andreas Heldal-Lund, Webmaster of the site Xenu.net, said in a Usenet posting that the complaint demanded that Google take down a large number of references to ...
Item contributed by: Ron Sharp
Mar 19, 2002
Binman wins 'rubbish' film case — BBC News
Type: Press
Source: BBC News
Benjamin "the binman" Pell, known for rifling through celebrities' rubbish, has won a court victory against a man who promised to make a film of his life. He will now get £77,500 back from businessman John Mappin, who told Mr Pell he could turn his story into a Hollywood blockbuster. Mr Pell said he had been "duped" into handing over the money to Mr Mappin, who claimed he would sign up a famous film director. But instead, he enlisted his best ...
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