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Jun 15, 1989
Church of Scientology argues for keeping court files sealed — St. Petersburg Times (Florida)
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Type: Press
Author(s): Stephen Koff
Source: St. Petersburg Times (Florida)
TAMPA — A newspaper waited too long before asking a judge to open court files that were sealed more than two years ago, attorneys for the Church of Scientology argued Wednesday. "It's unprecedented, this kind of wait," said new York lawyer Michael Lee Hertzberg. He was referring to the 26 months that went by after U.S. District Judge Elizabeth A. Kovachevich sealed four lawsuits that were settled with the church in 1986. But at a hearing before federal magistrate Paul Game ...
Jun 6, 1989
Scientologists lose tax deduction case — Los Angeles Times (California)
More: link
Type: Press
Author(s): David G. Savage
Source: Los Angeles Times (California)
WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court ruled Monday that the "fixed donations" paid by members to the Church of Scientology are not tax-deductible, charitable contributions. In the 5-2 ruling, the high court said that money paid to the church by Scientologists for training and a form of counseling called "auditing" are more like fees for a service than donations to a church. The church requires fixed donations of as much as $3,000 for 12 1/2 hours of "auditing," during which a person ...
Jun 2, 1989
Judge removes himself from Scientology case — St. Petersburg Times (Florida)
More: link
Type: Press
Author(s): Stephen Koff
Source: St. Petersburg Times (Florida)
A Pinellas judge presiding over a Scientology tax dispute has removed himself from the case because of a newspaper report that cited a real estate transaction between the judge and the Church of Scientology. The St. Petersburg Times reported in December that Circuit Judge Howard P. Rives, who was presiding over a lawsuit concerning taxes on Scientology properties, sold one of those properties to the church in 1979. Rives said in December that there was no conflict in his role because ...
May 6, 1989
Magistrate to hear Scientology case — St. Petersburg Times (Florida)
Nov 15, 1987
Books & authors: 'Hubbard': A story of bitter betrayal — Daily News
Nov 15, 1987
Scientologists in dirty campaign to stop book — The Sunday Times (UK)
More: link
Type: Press
Author(s): Richard Palmer
Source: The Sunday Times (UK)
THE CHURCH of Scientology has mounted a campaign of intimidation and harassment against the author and publisher of a new book on the founder of the religious cult to be serialised shortly by The Sunday Times. Scientologists and private detectives have been used to put pressure on people in Britain and the United States involved in the forthcoming publication of Bare Faced Messiah: the True Story of L Ron Hubbard. Russell Miller, the author, who spent more than two years researching ...
Jan 1, 1987
6 ex-Scientologists file $1-billion suit over funds, secrets — Los Angeles Times (California)
More: link
Type: Press
Author(s): Joel Sappell, Robert W. Welkos
Source: Los Angeles Times (California)
Former members of the Church of Scientology filed a $1-billion class-action lawsuit against the organization Wednesday, accusing its late founder, L. Ron Hubbard, and a cadre of his most trusted aides of plundering church coffers, intimidating critics and breaching the confidentiality of sacred confessional folders. The lawsuit was filed in Los Angeles Superior Court at a time when the church had hoped that its legal wars with its critics had been put largely to rest. Two weeks ago, the organization reached ...
Dec 6, 1986
Church of Scientology of California v. Gerald Armstrong: Mutual release of all claims and settlement agreement
More: gerryarmstrong.org
Aug 18, 1986
Scientologists settle 4 suits out of court — Tampa Tribune (Florida)
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Type: Press
Source: Tampa Tribune (Florida)
TAMPA — The Church of Scientology has reached out-of-court settlements in four multimillion-dollar lawsuits but U.S. District Judge Elizabeth A. Kovachevich has sealed the records in all cases. The settlements were reached in cases involving former Clearwater Mayor Gabe Cazares and his wife Maggie; Tanja C. Burden of Las Vegas; former Scientologists Nancy and John McLean of Ontario. Canada; and former Scientologist Margery Wakefield, whose address was unavailable. Tampa attorney Walt Logan, who represented the plaintiffs in all four cases, said ...
Aug 17, 1986
Church of Scientology settles in multimillion-dollar civil suits — Orlando Sentinel
Type: Press
Source: Orlando Sentinel
The Church of Scientology has reached out-of-court settlements in four multimillion-dollar civil suits, but details were ordered sealed by U.S. District Judge Elizabeth Kovachevich. Settlements were reached with former Clearwater Mayor Gabe Cazares, a Democratic candidate for Congress; Tanja Burden of Las Vegas; Nancy McLean of Ontario, Canada; and Margery Wakefield, no address available. Tampa attorney Walt Logan, who represented plaintiffs in all four cases, said the files were sealed Thursday over our objections. The Cazareses sued the church for $1.5 ...
Aug 16, 1986
Cazares, 3 others settle suits against Scientologists — St. Petersburg Times (Florida)
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Aug 13, 1986
Margery Wakefield vs. Church of Scientology of California, Inc.: Settlement agreement
Jun 11, 1985
Former Scientologist settles suit against church — Nashua Telegraph (New Hampshire)
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Type: Press
Source: Nashua Telegraph (New Hampshire)
BOSTON (AP) — A former Church of Scientology member has dropped her $200 million harassment claim against the organization, and group leaders say she settled for $150,000. Jury selection was scheduled to begin Monday in U.S. District Court when Judge W. Arthur Garrity announced that attorneys for La Venda Van Schaick, 35, asked for a dismissal, which he granted. Garrity then cleared the courtroom, which was filled with Scientologist members, after denying requests from attorney Harvey Silverglate and the group's president, ...
Mar 26, 1985
Affidavit attacks Flynn's strategy — Clearwater Sun (Florida)
Mar 21, 1985
Hubbard fails to show up — Clearwater Sun (Florida)
May 12, 1984
Former Scientology archivist tells of 'paranoid' flight from church — Los Angeles Times (California)
More: link
Type: Press
Author(s): Myrna Oliver
Source: Los Angeles Times (California)
A former Church of Scientology archivist described for a Los Angeles judge on Friday his "paranoid" leave-taking from the organization after his realization that church founder L. Ron Hubbard was not the heroic scientist he claimed to be. The church is suing to recover thousands of pages of Hubbard's personal papers that it claims Gerald Armstrong took illegally to use in lawsuits against the group. Armstrong testified for the second day in his own defense in the non-jury trial before Superior ...
May 8, 1982
Aboard church ship / Father doubts story of how daughter died — Lodi News-Sentinel (California)
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Type: Press
Source: Lodi News-Sentinel (California)
CLEARWATER. Fla. (UPI) — The father of a young girl who was killed in 1971 aboard a ship owned by the Church of Scientology in Morocco said Friday he doesn't believe the church officials who told him his daughter committed suicide. George Meister, testifying before the City Council, said he flew to Morocco and was shown a photograph of his bloodied daughter Susan and was told by church officials she had been found shot to death with a long-barreled .22-caliber pistol, ...
Jan 14, 1982
Scientologists, mother settle suit — Eugene Register-Guard (Oregon)
Sep 10, 1981
Church of Scientology wins U.S. settlement — New York Times
Dec 15, 1979
Scientologists agree to pay some back taxes — St. Petersburg Times (Florida)
Oct 24, 1979
Plea-bargaining for Scientologists approved by judge
More: link
Type: Press
WASHINGTON (UPI) — Nine scientologists, who faced a 28-count indictment on charges of stealing government documents, each would plead guilty to only one count of conspiracy under an agreement upheld by a federal judge. U.S. District Judge Charles Richey ruled Monday that the disputed plea arrangement between defense and prosecution attorneys is valid. Chief prosecutor Raymond Banoun promptly said the U.S. attorney's office would file a notice of appeal. Richey had held closed hearings for nearly two weeks on the defense ...
Oct 9, 1979
9 Scientologists OK conviction so they can appeal — Los Angeles Times (California)
More: link
Type: Press
Author(s): Robert Jackson
Source: Los Angeles Times (California)
WASHINGTON — Nine leaders of the Church of Scientology, in a rare legal maneuver, have agreed to be found guilty by a federal judge on reduced charges of conspiracy and theft as an outgrowth of their long battle with the federal government over allegedly stolen U.S. documents. Under a procedure called a "stipulated record," the defendants agreed to be found guilty after the government presented its case in a written court record without challenge or a trial, which could have lasted ...
Jan 22, 1979
Author of book on Scientology tells of her 8 years of torment — New York Times
More: link
Dec 8, 1976
Scientologists lay libel suits against author — Winnipeg Free Press
Dec 7, 1976
Libel Settlement Reached With Scientology Church — Los Angeles Times (California)
Dec 4, 1976
Talks interrupt Scientologists' libel suit — Los Angeles Times (California)
Type: Press
Author(s): Myrna Oliver
Source: Los Angeles Times (California)
The first libel suit to come to trial over a 1971 book, "The Scandal of Scientology," was interrupted this week in Los Angeles Superior Court while Scientologists discussed the settlement of seven suits filed about the book [...]
Mar 7, 1974
Counterattack: The response to criticism [last of a series] — St. Louis Post-Dispatch (Missouri)
Type: Press
Author(s): James E. Adams, Elaine Viets
Source: St. Louis Post-Dispatch (Missouri)
"We are not a law enforcement agency. BUT we will become interested in the crimes of people who seek to stop us ... If you leave us alone, we will leave you alone." - L. Ron Hubbard Founder of the Church of Scientology The Church of Scientology does not turn the other cheek. Said Emily Watson, the church's national public affairs representative: "We tried doing that for years, but the attacks kept growing ...." Two attacks to which she referred were ...
Jun 28, 1955
$9,000 suit settled here — Republic (Phoenix, AZ)
More: link
Type: Press
Source: Republic (Phoenix, AZ)
The $9,000 damage suit against L. Ron Hubbard, the Church of Scientology, and others was settled yesterday out of court. Terms of the settlement were not disclosed. The suit was filed May [?] by Mrs. Estrid Anderson Humphrey, former Paradise Valley resident, through her attorney, George Botsford of Scottsdale. The suit filed by Mrs. Anderson, who now resides in Abilene, Tex. She alleged that her Paradise Valley house and property were extensively damaged by "persons with seriously deranged minds" who were ...
Jun 28, 1955
Scientology suit settlement made — Gazette (Phoenix, AZ)
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Type: Press
Source: Gazette (Phoenix, AZ)
A settlement in the $9,000 suit filed against L. Ron Hubbard Sr., the Church of Scientology, and others over asserted damage to a Paradise Valley home was made out of court. Mrs. Estrid Anderson Humphrey, formerly of Paradise Valley and now of Abilene, Tex., brought the action through her attorney, George W. Botsford of Scottsdale. She claimed her house and property were damaged by persons with assertedly deranged minds who allegedly were placed there for treatment. The settlement terms were not ...
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