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Dec 30, 1999
Letters / Crossing the church — New Times Los Angeles
Dec 30, 1999
Some charities cash in by playing the name game — New York Times
More: link
Dec 29, 1999
Religious pressure at Texas vet clinic leads to $150,000 EEOC settlement — Employment Law Weekly
Type: Press
Source: Employment Law Weekly
An Arlington, Texas veterinary clinic agreed earlier this month to pay $150,000 to six employees who claimed in a suit backed by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission that the company unlawfully pressured employees to subscribe to beliefs of the Church of Scientology (EEOC v. I-20 Animal Medical Center, N.D. Tex, 398CV2316-X, settlement approved 12/2/99). In a complaint filed Sept. 30 in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Texas, EEOC alleged that I-20 Animal Medical Center violated religious ...
Dec 23, 1999
Double Crossed — Phoenix New Times
Dec 23, 1999
Spookiest Story — NOW Magazine
Dec 21, 1999
Letters / Christmas message — Waikato Times (New Zealand)
Dec 16, 1999
State of Florida Department of Health v. David Ira Minkoff, M.D. / Case no. 1997-15802
Dec 15, 1999
Scientology leader named defendant in suit — St. Petersburg Times (Florida)
Dec 14, 1999
Master of the web — UCLA Today
Type: Press
Source: UCLA Today
Dec 10, 1999
Scientologists are refused charitable status — The Independent (UK)
More: rickross.com
Type: Press
Author(s): Damien Pearse
Source: The Independent (UK)
THE CHURCH of Scientology failed in its attempt to become a registered charity yesterday because the organisation was not of "public benefit". The Charity Commission rejected the application for charity status after detailed consideration and despite taking a "broad and flexible" view of the law, it emerged. The Church of Scientology had sought to be registered as a charity on the grounds that "it was established for the advancement of religion or to promote the moral or spiritual welfare or improvement ...
Dec 9, 1999
Britain denies Scientologists status as charitable group — Seattle Times
Type: Press
Source: Seattle Times
LONDON - Government officials denied the Church of Scientology charitable status today, saying it does not provide any public services. Scientologists said they would appeal the decision, announced by the Charity Commission, which regulates charities. The commission said the church did not meet the essential test for charitable status - "that of conferring public benefit." Graeme Wilson, public-affairs director for the Church of Scientology in Britain, called the decision "wrong on the law and wrong on the facts." "If the same ...
Dec 8, 1999
When can a church be accused of a crime? — St. Petersburg Times (Florida)
Type: Press
Author(s): Howard Troxler
Source: St. Petersburg Times (Florida)
There is a story about lawyers that involves a flower pot falling off a high ledge. A passer-by sues, claiming he was injured. The defense lawyer answers: First, it wasn't our pot. Second, if it was, it didn't fall. Third, if it fell, it didn't hit you. Fourth, if it hit you, you weren't hurt. This "flower pot strategy" is being employed by both sides in the current criminal case against a corporation of the Church of Scientology. Both sides' arguments ...
Item contributed by: Ron Sharp
Dec 7, 1999
Belief called irrelevant in death — St. Petersburg Times (Florida)
Type: Press
Author(s): Thomas C. Tobin
Source: St. Petersburg Times (Florida)
The Church of Scientology in Clearwater cannot rely on religious grounds to escape prosecution in the death of one of its members, Pinellas-Pasco prosecutors argued in a strongly worded document filed Monday. The document referred to the church's Clearwater entity as "a multifaceted non-profit corporation" that "engages in extensive revenue sharing activity" and generates "tremendous cash flow." The wording aims to undercut an argument by church lawyers that Scientology staffers were giving "spiritual assistance" to parishioner Lisa McPherson when she died ...
Item contributed by: Ron Sharp
Dec 6, 1999
Letters To The Editor // Scientology -- news article omits reason church has been targeted — Seattle Times
Type: Press
Source: Seattle Times
Your Nov. 15 article about Scientologists in a case in Marseille, France ("Former Scientology leader guilty of fraud in France," World digest), omits the larger picture, which includes why Scientologists have been targeted. The article also did not mention the disappearance of the court files in this trial. Documents critical to the defense were among the files destroyed, and the president of the Marseille court admitted that court personnel were responsible for it. There is also no question about Scientology's religiosity ...
Dec 2, 1999
Scientology hires top Clearwater law firm — St. Petersburg Times (Florida)
Type: Press
Author(s): Thomas C. Tobin
Source: St. Petersburg Times (Florida)
The church selects Johnson Blakely to represent it on a number of local issues. CLEARWATER – The Church of Scientology has hired Clearwater's most prominent and well-connected law firm to represent it on a wide range of issues, yet another indicator of Scientology's increasing acceptance into Clearwater's civic circles. Church officials reached an agreement for legal services on Tuesday with the firm of Johnson Blakely Pope Bokor Ruppel & Burns. The account will be handled by Ed Armstrong, a partner in ...
Item contributed by: Ron Sharp
Dec 1, 1999
Re: Factnet Alert — Exposure (New Zealand)
Nov 28, 1999
John Travolta's alien nation — Washington Post
Nov 26, 1999
L. Ron speaks! — L.A. Weekly (California)
More: link
Type: Press
Source: L.A. Weekly (California)
"Affection could no more spoil a child than the sun could be put out by a bucket of gasoline." Don’t go looking for this maxim in your Bartlett’s Familiar Quotations — but you just might find it in your local newspaper, courtesy of Scientology. The IRS-designated religion — ministry to the stars (John Travolta, Jenna Elfman, Tom Cruise), owner of vast worldwide holdings and co-sponsor of this year’s Hollywood Christmas Parade — has been mailing out this and other pearls from ...
Nov 24, 1999
Scientology prompts review of death case — St. Petersburg Times (Florida)
Nov 20, 1999
French Scientologists sentenced in fraud — Los Angeles Times (California)
Type: Press
Source: Los Angeles Times (California)
A former French Scientology official has been sentenced to two years in prison for fraud, along with four other Scientologists who received suspended sentences of six months to two years. Xavier Delamare, former head of Scientology's branch in the southern French city of Marseille, was sentenced Monday in connection with a 10-year-old case in which he was found guilty of operating sham "purification" courses between 1987 and 1990. As with the others, Delamare will not go to prison because 18 months ...
Nov 17, 1999
DECISION OF THE CHARITY COMMISSONERS FOR ENGLAND AND WALES MADE ON 17TH NOVEMBER 1999 — UK Charity Commission
More: charity-commission.gov.uk
Type: Document
Source: UK Charity Commission
[...] 2. Conclusion The Commissioners having considered the full legal and factual case and supporting documents (including expert evidence) which had been put to them by CoS and having considered and reviewed the relevant law, taking into account the principles embodied in the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR), the Commissioners concluded that CoS is not established as a charity and accordingly is not registrable as such. In so determining the Commissioners concluded as follows -: CoS is not charitable as ...
Nov 16, 1999
Foe of Scientology plans move to area — St. Petersburg Times (Florida)
Type: Press
Author(s): Thomas C. Tobin
Source: St. Petersburg Times (Florida)
Robert Minton intends to buy property in downtown Clearwater. Meanwhile, a restraining order against him is extended to Nov. 29. The Church of Scientology came to court Monday hoping its No. 1 enemy, Robert S. Minton, would never again be allowed near church properties in Clearwater. Instead, church officials learned that Minton, a 53-year-old New England millionaire, plans to be much too close for their comfort. Clearwater lawyer Denis de Vlaming told Pinellas-Pasco Circuit Judge Thomas E. Penick Jr. that Minton ...
Item contributed by: Ron Sharp
Nov 16, 1999
Scientology leader jailed for fraud // Group denounces French trial as inquisition — The Guardian (UK)
Type: Press
Author(s): Jon Henley
Source: The Guardian (UK)
In another blow to the controversial Church of Scientology's battle to be recognised as a religion rather than a sect, a French court yesterday found one of its former leaders guilty of fraud and sentenced him to six months in prison. Xavier Delamare, a former regional Scientology leader in south-east France, was given a further 18 month suspended sentence by the Marseille court while four other members accused of fraud, violence and illegally practising medicine were given suspended sentences of six ...
Item contributed by: Ron Sharp
Nov 15, 1999
French scientologists guilty of fraud — BBC News
Type: Press
Source: BBC News
A court in the French city of Marseilles has found five members of the Church of Scientology guilty on fraud charges over courses offered by the organisation. The former leader of the church in southern France, Xavier Delamare, was sentenced to two years in jail, including 18 months suspended, and fined 16,000 dollars for manipulating people into giving money to the church. He will not return to jail because he has spent 17 weeks in pre-trial detention. Four more people were ...
Item contributed by: Ron Sharp
Nov 11, 1999
The mysterious death of L. Ron Hubbard
Type: Opinion
Strange Death in a Strange Land The Old Man in the Desert He had achieved success beyond his wildest dreams; wealth, fame and the adulation of thousands of devoted adherents. Yet for the last five years of his life, L. Ron Hubbard, founder of Scientology, dwelt, a virtual prisoner of his own paranoia, a recluse in self-imposed exile, on a ranch in the desert of Creston, California. Surrounded by a handful of trusted aides, he handed over the running of his ...
Nov 10, 1999
Sect loses battle to become a charity // Scientology 'is not a religion' — The Guardian (UK)
Type: Press
Author(s): James Meek
Source: The Guardian (UK)
The controversial Church of Scientology had its application to be recognised as a religion turned down yesterday. After more than three years' deliberation, the Charity Commissioners rejected the organisation's claim saying that it did not qualify because it was not a religion and did not benefit the public. Critics of Scientology portray the organisation as a wacky cult that brainwashes individuals and exists to make money. But adherents say such hostility amounts to religious persecution and that Scientology puts them on ...
Item contributed by: Ron Sharp
Nov 6, 1999
Police no longer monitoring Scientology — St. Petersburg Times (Florida)
Oct 22, 1999
U.S. bill would chide Germany for refusal to recognize Scientology — National Post
Oct 20, 1999
'It is dreadful to be an onlooking parent, for the loved child is lost' — The Guardian (UK)
Type: Press
Author(s): Nick Clarke
Source: The Guardian (UK)
In the second extract from his new biography of Alistair Cooke, Nick Clarke reveals how the broadcaster's daughters became entangled in a sinister cult For all Alistair Cooke's ability to make, keep and cherish friendships across a broad - if compartmentalised - social spectrum, he was finding it no easier to deal with relationships closer to home. One of the lowest points was reached in the summer of 1965. Holly [the daughter of Cooke's second wife, Jane], still living in London, ...
Item contributed by: Ron Sharp
Oct 14, 1999
The Finger: HOLY HUBBARDITE! — New Times Los Angeles
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