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City dilutes solicitation ordinance — Clearwater Sun (Florida)
Mar 11, 1984
Scientology theorist spent youth in Helena, now a recluse — Tribune Metro (MT)
Mar 10, 1984
Hearing on Scientology ordinance is today — St. Petersburg Times (Florida)More: news.google.com
Mar 10, 1984
Scientology suit ruling expected this month — Clearwater Sun (Florida)More: link
Type: Press
Author(s):
Jeff Mangum Source:
Clearwater Sun (Florida) TAMPA — The Church of Scientology and the City of Clearwater traded legal jabs Friday in a hearing over the city's charitable solicitation ordinance, with U.S. District Judge Elizabeth A. Kovachevich promising to rule on the measure constitutionality by March 31. "The very evils this ordinance seeks to prevent are rampant within the city limits of Clearwater," Chief Assistant City Attorney Frank Kowalski declared, citing reports of fraud alleged against the sect during May 1982 City Commission hearings. Those hearings and ...
Feb 17, 1984
Lionel Blackman's suit against Church of Scientology reversed (may not be exact title) — St. Petersburg Times (Florida)
Feb 17, 1984
Sect threatens suit over lodging law — Clearwater Sun (Florida)
Feb 16, 1984
Court reverses $100,000 award due from Church of Scientology — Miami Herald
Feb 10, 1984
Widow donated workers' comp benefits to sect — Clearwater Sun (Florida)
Feb 4, 1984
FBI expands probe of alleged sect plot — Clearwater Sun (Florida)
Feb 3, 1984
Private detective outlines undercover church probe — Tampa Tribune (Florida)
Feb 3, 1984
Private eye says he conducted covert operation for church — Sarasota Herald-Tribune
Feb 1, 1984
Sect reveals undercover probe of civil leaders — Clearwater Sun (Florida)
Jan 29, 1984
Lawyer sees smear campaign, slams sect — Clearwater Sun (Florida)
Jan 24, 1984
Prior sect try at judge reported — Clearwater Sun (Florida)More: link
Jan 24, 1984
Scientologists sue Clearwater over ordinance — Clearwater Times (Florida)More: news.google.com , link
Jan 23, 1984
How do Scientologists continue to evade law? — Clearwater Sun (Florida)
Jan 23, 1984
Officials 'not surprised' by investigation into sect — Clearwater Sun (Florida)
Jan 23, 1984
U.S. reportedly probing alleged extortion plot by Scientology sect — Santa Ana Register
Jan 22, 1984
Feds eye alleged sect plot to corrupt U.S. judge — Clearwater Sun (Florida)
Type: Press
Author(s):
George-Wayne Shelor Source:
Clearwater Sun (Florida) The U.S. Attorney's Office in Tampa is investigating a suspected 1982 extortion plot by the Church of Scientology to entrap and compromise a Tampa federal judge who presided over a suit against the Clearwater-based sect, a Clearwater Sun investigation has revealed. The purported plot, which involved an attempt to lure U.S. District Judge Ben Krentzman aboard a boat off the Pinellas Suncoast where prostitutes and drugs were to be used to put the judge in a compromising position, was authorized personally ...
Jan 7, 1984
Sect holds conference to debunk kidnap story — Clearwater Sun (Florida)
Jan 5, 1984
Ex-Scientologist goes on hunger strike — St. Petersburg Times (Florida)
Jan 5, 1984
Scientologists owe the public an explanation — Clearwater Sun (Florida)
Nov 24, 1983
The true Austalian story — West Australian
Oct 30, 1983
Tide turning // Scientologists may be losing battle with Clearwater — Miami HeraldMore: link
Type: Press
Author(s):
Anders Gyllenhaal Source:
Miami Herald CLEARWATER — A poker-faced doorman bows slightly at the entrance of the Fort Harrison and motions visitors to the lobby, where a crowd waits at the front desk and dozens of guests rush up and down the marble staircases beneath the crystal chandeliers. A larger-than-life portrait of L. Ron Hubbard, the reclusive founder of Scientology, stares down upon his followers from high on the wall. Many of them wear the sea merchant uniform that is part of their code. Most criss-cross ...
Sep 27, 1983
Former Scientologists charge church harassed them for money — St. Petersburg Times (Florida)
Sep 16, 1983
3 ordered to pay Church damages — West Australian
Sep 1, 1983
Scheme loses $1.5 million for investors [exact date unknown] — Rocky Mountain News (Denver, Colorado)More: link
Type: Press
Author(s):
Sue Lindsay Source:
Rocky Mountain News (Denver, Colorado) Thirty-seven investors, including some who mortgaged their homes to get money, have lost $1.5 million in a Denver scheme that promised a whopping 60 percent in annual interest. Among the big losers was L. Ron Hubbard, founder of the Church of Scientology, who lost almost half a million dollars. The scheme has been investigated by the state securities division, and the FBI plans to investigate. The state has found evidence of criminal conduct and will present its findings Wednesday to the ...
Jul 14, 1983
$42 Million suit filed against Scientologists — Associated Press
Type: Press
Source:
Associated Press Members of a Church of Scientology splinter group have filed a $42 million suit against the church, alleging fraud, slander and breach of contract. The suit was filed here last week on behalf of Bent Corydon, former director of the Riverside Scientology mission and member of the new Church of Sciologos. It seeks $40 million in punitive damages plus real damages of $1.83 million, said Corydon's attorney, Paul Morantz of Pacific Palisades. The suit is a cross-complaint to a $6.2 million ...
Jun 21, 1983
Judge bars couple from dropping part of Scientology suit — Orlando SentinelMore: link
Type: Press
Author(s):
Maya Bell Source:
Orlando Sentinel DAYTONA BEACH — The former mayor of Clearwater and his wife cannot drop just a part of a lawsuit they filed against the Church of Scientology, a Volusia County circuit judge ruled Monday. Citing case law, Judge Robert Durden said Gabriel Cazares and his wife Margaret must drop all or none of the three-count suit filed in circuit court against the controversial church. Arguing against partial dismissal of the suit, church lawyers accused the Cazares' attorneys of trying to drop the ...
Jun 14, 1983
Judge throws out lawsuit over Scientology dispute — Los Angeles Times (California)More: link
Type: Press
Author(s):
Russell Chandler Source:
Los Angeles Times (California) A Riverside Superior Court judge Monday threw out a suit by L. Ron Hubbard's estranged son that claimed that his father, the controversial founder of the Church of Scientology, is either dead or incompetent. Judge David Hennigan had been "convinced" by a declaration Hubbard had filed three weeks ago that the reclusive science-fiction writer was alive. The declaration was signed and fingerprinted by Hubbard and apparently authenticated by handwriting and fingerprint experts. Hubbard, 71, had written in the document that he ...
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