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Oct 15, 2009
Court of Appeal rejects millionaires’ challenge to income tax — Metropolitan News-Enterprise (Los Angeles, California)
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Metropolitan News-Enterprise (Los Angeles, California) A ballot initiative imposing a tax on millionaires to fund mental health services did not violate equal protection, this district’s Court of Appeal ruled yesterday. Reasoning that taxpayers earning more than $1 million annually do not comprise a “suspect class” requiring strict scrutiny analysis, Div. Two rejected a challenge to Proposition 63 by two La Canada Scientologists. Proposition 63 was passed in 2004 and expanded funding for mental health services for all Californians by imposing an additional tax of 1 percent ...
Dec 15, 2008
Religious school fees not deductible, Ninth Circuit rules — Metropolitan News-Enterprise (Los Angeles, California)
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Kenneth Ofgang Source:
Metropolitan News-Enterprise (Los Angeles, California) Tuition and fees for religious day schools are not deductible for federal income tax purposes, the Ninth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled Friday.
The court, for the second time, rejected claims by local residents Michael and Marla Sklar that they received only intangible religious benefits as result of their five children’s attendance in Orthodox Jewish schools, so their school payments should be deductible, at least in part, as charitable donations.
The Sklars have been seeking to deduct their payments, going ...
Dec 8, 2006
C.A. Rejects Attorney’s Lien Claim in Scientology Case — Metropolitan News-Enterprise (Los Angeles, California)
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Kenneth Ofgang Source:
Metropolitan News-Enterprise (Los Angeles, California) The Court of Appeal for this district has rejected an attorney’s claim to a portion of the millions of dollars recovered by a former Scientologist in the decades-long suit over what he said were coercive tactics by the church.
Div. Two Wednesday affirmed Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Robert L. Hess’ ruling invalidating Leta Schlosser’s attorney fee lien against Lawrence D. Wollersheim’s $8.7 million recovery from the Church of Scientology and its affiliated organizations.
Wollersheim, who filed suit in 1980, won ...
Oct 28, 2005
25 years later, a high-profile Superior Court case is still on the active list — Metropolitan News-Enterprise (Los Angeles, California)
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Roger M. Grace Source:
Metropolitan News-Enterprise (Los Angeles, California) A jury trial is slated to start in Los Angeles Superior Court Tuesday in a case in which an attorney who failed to secure a written representation agreement is seeking to recover the reasonable value of her services. So far, that probably seems hum drum. What makes this case worthy of note is that the proceeding will take place in Case No. C332027 — which was filed on July 28, 1980. The name of this 25-year-old case will probably sound familiar. ...
May 31, 1989
Pfaelzer again removes self from Scientology case — Metropolitan News-Enterprise (Los Angeles, California)More: link
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Metropolitan News-Enterprise (Los Angeles, California) U.S. District Court Judge Mariana Pfaelzer, for the second time, has recused herself from a controversial Church of Scientology case, it was learned yesterday. In each instance, she stepped aside shortly after the Ninth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals was asked to forcibly remove her. The attorney seeking her disqualification, Jerold Fagelbaum of Myerson & Kuhn, said yesterday he thinks the judge is now permanently off the case. Fagelbaum is representing church defectors who are being sued by the church for ...
May 22, 1989
Ninth Circuit asked to recuse Judge Pfaelzer — Metropolitan News-Enterprise (Los Angeles, California)More: link
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Metropolitan News-Enterprise (Los Angeles, California) The Ninth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has been asked to remove U.S. District Court Judge Mariana Pfaelzer from a Church of Scientology case based on the appearance that she and the church are "allies," it was learned Friday. A petition for a writ of mandate was filed by the defendants, church defectors who are accused of conspiring to steal and distribute secret church courses. They are asking the appeals court to overturn the action of U.S. District Court Judge Harry ...
Apr 24, 1989
Judge won't remove Pfaelzer from Scientology case — Metropolitan News-Enterprise (Los Angeles, California)More: link
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Metropolitan News-Enterprise (Los Angeles, California) A federal judge in Los Angeles has denied a motion to oust his colleague Mariana Pfaelzer from presiding over an action brought by the Church of Scientology against defecting members, saying the motion stems from defense counsels' "paranoia." The defendants, who are alleged to have conspired to steal and distribute secret church courses, sought Pfaelzer's recusal based on what they viewed as an improper ex parte conversation with members of her old law firm, Wyman, Bautzer, Christensen, Kuchel & Silbert. Pfaelzer ...
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