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Ruling on Scientology case favors IRS — St. Petersburg Times (Florida)More: pqasb.pqarchiver.com , scientology-lies.com , link
Type: Press
Author(s):
Curtis Krueger Source:
St. Petersburg Times (Florida) The Church of Scientology should hand over stacks of financial documents to the Internal Revenue Service, which is studying whether to deny the organization tax-exempt status, a federal magistrate says. But Magistrate Elizabeth Jenkins has pared the number of documents the IRS originally sought. Jenkins' recommendations, issued last week in U.S. District Court, will be forwarded to a federal judge who can adopt or revise them. The IRS says it has information indicating the Clearwater-based Church of Scientology Flag Service Organization ...
Apr 15, 1990
Search for information followed long, winding trail — San Diego Union-TribuneMore: link
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San Diego Union-Tribune The San Diego Union first asked for an interview with Bridge Publications in December 1989. The request was referred to the L. Ron Hubbard Office of Public Relations, a Church of Scientology organization in Los Angeles. Several times throughout January, Union reporter Mike McIntyre contacted the L Ron Hubbard Office of Public Relations to request an interview with Bridge personnel. Each time, L. Ron Hubbard spokeswoman Sharyn Runyon said that a decision had not been made. Runyon later asked McIntyre to ...
Jul 19, 1989
Larry Wollersheim v. Church of Scientology of California — Daily Appellate Report
Jul 18, 1989
Decision: Wollersheim v. Church of Scientology (1989)
Jun 23, 1989
United States v. Franks S. Zolin — Daily Appellate Report
Jun 22, 1989
Court must reconsider Scientology tape privilege — Daily Journal (Los Angeles, California)More: link
Type: Press
Author(s):
William Vogeler Source:
Daily Journal (Los Angeles, California) Helping judges determine when to permit an exception to the attorney-client privilege, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled Wednesday that judges may conduct in camera reviews of attorney communications to their clients — if the judges reasonably believe the clients sought advice to commit a crime or fraud. Reversing a decision of the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, the justices ordered the appeals court to reconsider whether a trial court judge properly refused to listen to tapes the Internal Revenue Service ...
Mar 29, 1989
75 Scientologists go on trial today — St. Petersburg Times (Florida)More: link
Type: Press
Author(s):
Ruth E. Gruber Source:
St. Petersburg Times (Florida) ROME - Seventy-five members of the Church of Scientology's Italian operation go before a Milan court today to face a long list of charges ranging from fraud, extortion and tax evasion to the illegal practice of medicine and taking advantage of incapacitated people. "It should be a lively court session," said the Milan daily Il Giornale, predicting possible courtroom demonstrations by Scientology sympathizers. The Scientologists have hired some of Milan's most prominent lawyers to defend them and are expected to base ...
Jan 16, 1989
Follow-ups: Shamed in Spain — CNNMore: link
Jan 6, 1989
Lawyer wants Scientology link kept out of trial — St. Petersburg Times (Florida)More: pqasb.pqarchiver.com
Nov 24, 1988
Church of Scientology threatens to sue judge — UPI
Nov 24, 1988
Spain expels 6 Scientologists in fraud case — San Francisco Chronicle (California)
Nov 24, 1988
Spain jails Scientology leader / American faces indictment on charges of fraud, tax evasion — Sacramento Bee (California)
Nov 23, 1988
Spain seizes Scientology leaders — San Francisco Chronicle (California)More: link
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San Francisco Chronicle (California) Police arrested 69 people in a raid on a hotel and accused 45 of them of fraud, illegal association and forgery for being members of the Church of Scientology. Among those held was Heber Jentzsch, 53, of Los Angeles, worldwide director of the faith, and two unidentified Americans, judicial sources said. In 1986 and again last June, Spain's Justice Ministry rejected a petition by the Church of Scientology for accreditation as a legitimate religious institution on the ground that the group's ...
Nov 22, 1988
Scientology chiefs from 8 nations detained in Spain — Los Angeles Times (California)More: link
Nov 22, 1988
Three Britons held in mass swoop on cult — Daily Mail (UK)
Jul 30, 1988
Canada – Scientology — Associated PressMore: link
Type: Press
Author(s):
Jeff Bradley Source:
Associated Press TORONTO (AP) — The Church of Scientology in Canada has offered to donate a million dollars or more to the needy if the government drops criminal theft charges against it. The move was legally unprecedented. Ontario Attorney General Ian Scott reacted coolly and the
nation's leading newspaper termed the offer "offensive." Scott left the door open for lawyers to discuss Tuesday's proposal. It stems from a case charging church members with the theft of government documents about the church's activities ...
Jul 26, 1988
Scientology church offers to aid poor if charges dropped — Globe and Mail (Canada)More: link
Type: Press
Author(s):
Peter Moon Source:
Globe and Mail (Canada) In what may be an unprecedented legal manoeuvre, the Church of Scientology of Toronto has offered to make substantial cash donations to community agencies working with the elderly and the poor if criminal charges against it are dropped. The offer was made yesterday in a letter written by the church’s lawyer, Clayton Ruby, and delivered to Ontario Attorney-General Ian Scott’s office. The church is charged with several counts of theft by church members of photocopies of confidential documents from Ontario Government ...
Feb 22, 1988
U.S. v. Kattar 840 F.2d 118
Jan 6, 1988
Religions now copyrighting names, teachings — Legal Intelligencer
Nov 1, 1987
Cult threatens to sue over book — The Sunday Times (UK)More: cosmedia.freewinds.be , link
Type: Press
Author(s):
Richard Palmer Source:
The Sunday Times (UK) THE CHURCH of Scientology cult has threatened worldwide legal action against The Sunday Times in an attempt to prevent the newspaper today publishing extracts of a new book on its founder. Lawyers representing the church last week said they would sue The Sunday Times and its distributors in more than 50 countries if extracts of a book by Russell Miller, published into today's Sunday Times, breach the copyright of the estate of the late L. Ron Hubbard, scientology's founder. The threats ...
Oct 25, 1987
'Murder' used in plot against cult author — The Sunday Times (UK)More: link
Type: Press
Author(s):
Richard Palmer Source:
The Sunday Times (UK) THE AUTHOR of a new book on the Church of Scientology cult has become the victim of a bizarre plot to link him to the murder of a communist pop singer. Russell Miller, whose book, Bare Faced Messiah: The True Story of L Ron Hubbard, is to be serialised shortly in The Sunday Times, is being investigated by private detectives trying to link him to the death last year of Dean Reed, an American singer who defected to the Soviet bloc. ...
Sep 13, 1987
Scientology lawyer threatens lawsuit — St. Petersburg Times (Florida)
Jul 29, 1987
Scientologists' loss of tax-exempt status upheld by U.S. court — Los Angeles Times (California)More: link
Type: Press
Author(s):
Kim Murphy Source:
Los Angeles Times (California) Concluding that L. Ron Hubbard, founder of the Church of Scientology of California, had "unfettered control" over millions of dollars in church assets, a federal appeals court Tuesday upheld the revocation of the church's tax-exempt status. In a ruling that rejected nearly every argument the church had raised, the U.S. 9th Circuit Court of Appeals said there is evidence that the late church founder held millions of dollars of church funds in private trust funds, Swiss bank accounts and in a ...
Jul 19, 1987
Scientologists lose court ruling on tax deductions for donations — Los Angeles Times (California)
Jul 3, 1987
Fees paid by Scientologists to church held deductible — Los Angeles Times (California)More: link
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Los Angeles Times (California) ST. LOUIS (AP) — A federal appeals court has ruled that donations made by Church of Scientology members as part of their religious practices may be claimed as a federal income tax deduction. The U.S. 8th Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that set fees paid by Scientologists during their church's individualized religious practices are deductible charitable contributions. The ruling is contrary to one reached recently by the U.S. 1st Circuit Court of Appeals in Boston, which decided the payments are not ...
Jun 26, 1987
Court upholds warrants used by OPP in raid on Scientology — Toronto Star (Canada)
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Toronto Star (Canada) The Church of Scientology has lost the final round in its fight to quash search warrants that allowed some 250,000 documents to be seized in a 1983 raid on their Toronto headquarters. The Supreme Court of Canada yesterday rejected the church's application to challenge an Ontario Court of Appeal ruling that the warrants were legal under the Constitution. Yesterday's decision validated the lower court's finding that groups cannot escape criminal investigation simply by claiming organized religion status. But church president Earl ...
Apr 30, 1987
The 'extended sting operation' of Scientology — The Listener
Type: Press
Author(s):
John Penycate Source:
The Listener Panorama 's investigation into the Scientologists revealed an organisation which uses its founder's 'mixture of half-practical, half-gobbledegook psychological techniques' to draw large sums of money from its adherents, with threatening consequences if they opt out. Religious cults are a problem. They enslave the minds and empty the pockets of gullible young people, causing heartfelt grief to their families. The Moonies, the Children of God and the other cults have a poor public image, but they almost always operate within the law. The ...
Feb 24, 1987
The Region / [The U.S. Supreme Court ruled that Church of Scientology scriptural documents are not a trade secret...] — Los Angeles Times (California)More: link
Feb 13, 1987
Scientology circus could lead to citation — St. Petersburg Times (Florida)More: groups.google.com
Feb 13, 1987
Sect's circus draws threats of city citations — Clearwater Sun (Florida)
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