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174 items found between Jan 1985 and Dec 1985.
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Nov 4, 1985
[...Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Alfred L. Margolis has removed himself...] — Los Angeles Times (California)
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Type: Press
Source: Los Angeles Times (California)
Citing a scheduling conflict in January, Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Alfred L. Margolis has removed himself from the trial of former Church of Scientology member Larry Wollersheim, who is suing the church for fraud. The judge's announcement came during the third week of pretrial motions. Margolis said he would decide the motions under submission, but asked attorneys for both sides to return for selection of a new judge. Church attorneys had told Margolis they expected the trial to last a ...
Nov 1, 1985
Personals — Reader (Los Angeles)
Oct 22, 1985
[A Los Angeles judge ruled...] — Los Angeles Times (California)
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Source: Los Angeles Times (California)
A Los Angeles judge ruled that allegations about the Church of Scientology's belief in and practice of "auditing" its members may not be introduced as evidence in a $25-million fraud suit. Superior Court Judge Alfred Margolis also granted church motions to disallow any allegations as to the efficacy, successes or failures of auditing, which is the church's term for its confidential pastoral counseling. The Rev. Ken Hoden, president of the church in Los Angeles, said the pretrial rulings were a major ...
Oct 17, 1985
Former Scientology aide wins ruling on church records — San Francisco Chronicle (California)
Type: Press
Source: San Francisco Chronicle (California)
The state Supreme Court yesterday allowed a former Church of Scientology official to obtain church records in a suit against the group. None of the six justices taking part in the case voted to grant a hearing on the church's claim that the documents were records of church confessionals taken under a promise of confidentiality. Chief Justice Rose Bird did not participate in the case. The action lifts the court's order of September 10 blocking release of the records of "audits," ...
Oct 17, 1985
Scientologists rally against Council report — Advertiser (Australia)
Oct 16, 1985
Scientology church loses its bid to avoid punitive damages in suit — Daily News (Los Angeles, California)
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Type: Press
Author(s): Ira Rifkin
Source: Daily News (Los Angeles, California)
Attorneys for the church of Scientology lost a series of key pre-trial motions Tuesday as a $25 million lawsuit seeking to challenge some of the controversial sect's most fundamental aspects got under way in a Los Angeles courtroom. The Superior Court trial began in a circus atmosphere similar to the one that permeated the recent Scientology-related case in Portland, Ore., complete with demonstrators and courtroom outbursts by church supporters. One ruling by Judge Alfred L. Margolis was to deny a church ...
Oct 16, 1985
Scientology president fights legal controls as 'gas-chamber therapy' — Advertiser (Australia)
Oct 16, 1985
The Region // [About 150 people rallied at a park...] — Los Angeles Times (California)
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Source: Los Angeles Times (California)
About 150 people rallied at a park in downtown Los Angeles to protest a $25-million fraud suit filed against the Church of Scientology by a former member. Police said the gathering at the Court of Flags Park on North Hill Street was peaceful. Church members said they expected 2,000 to attend the daylong rally; police said they had anticipated about 1,000. While the rally was proceeding, lawyers for the church argued pretrial motions before Superior Court Judge Alfred Margolis. The lawsuit ...
Oct 12, 1985
Six candidates eye Tarpon Springs seats — Clearwater Sun (Florida)
Oct 6, 1985
Advertisement: The Invaders Plan by Master Storyteller L. Ron Hubbard — Los Angeles Times (California)
Oct 3, 1985
Inkeeper appeals ruling to close landmark hotel — Clearwater Sun (Florida)
Sep 26, 1985
Church of Scientology withdraws from deal to buy Altadena site — Los Angeles Times (California)
Type: Press
Author(s): Mark Arax
Source: Los Angeles Times (California)
The Church of Scientology has backed out of an agreement to purchase a 198-acre former hospital complex in the Altadena foothills, ending three months of controversy in which some local residents charged that the group was a cult seeking to establish a base of operations there. Scientology officials last week withdrew their application for a conditional-use permit for the former LaVina Hospital complex. In a letter to the county's Regional Planning Commission, the group said it had found another site more ...
Sep 25, 1985
Letters to the Editor — Clearwater Sun (Florida)
Sep 22, 1985
Scientologists withdraw from Altadena deal — Los Angeles Times (California)
Type: Press
Author(s): Mark Arax
Source: Los Angeles Times (California)
The Church of Scientology has backed out of an agreement to purchase a 198-acre former hospital complex in the Altadena foothills, ending three months of controversy in which some local residents charged that the group was a cult seeking to establish a base of operations here. Scientology officials last week withdrew their application for a conditional-use permit for the former LaVina Hospital complex. In a letter to the county's Regional Planning Commission, the group said it had found another site more ...
Aug 14, 1985
Scientologists accuse U.S. judge of bias as suit against ex-member is dismissed — Los Angeles Times (California)
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Author(s): George Ramos
Source: Los Angeles Times (California)
Los Angeles' chief federal judge, who has been accused of bias by Church of Scientology officials, Tuesday dismissed a lawsuit filed by the church against a former member. The ruling by Chief U.S. District Judge Manuel Real came after he again ordered a Scientology attorney removed from the courtroom for arguing too much. On Monday, Real sent another church lawyer, Donald C. Randolph of Los Angeles, to jail — also for arguing. Although Randolph was released from custody several hours later, ...
Aug 13, 1985
Scientology lawyer jailed for his jousts with judge — Los Angeles Times (California)
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Author(s): George Ramos
Source: Los Angeles Times (California)
A lawyer for the Church of Scientology was jailed for several hours late Monday after he verbally sparred with Los Angeles' chief U.S. district judge, whom church officials have accused of taking away church-related cases from other judges in order to cover up alleged government misconduct. Attorney Donald C. Randolph was taken into custody by federal marshals after he was found in contempt by Judge Manuel Real for repeatedly raising arguments that Real had rejected and said he no longer wanted ...
Aug 9, 1985
Personals — Reader (Los Angeles)
Aug 6, 1985
City, sect clash in federal appeals court — Clearwater Sun (Florida)
Jul 27, 1985
Nursery puts stop to Scientologists staging plays for children — Montreal Gazette
Type: Press
Source: Montreal Gazette
The owner of a Rosemount nursery says he won't allow Church of Scientology members to perform any more plays for the nursery's 30 children. On Wednesday, two Scientology members presented a 45-minute play — it was about a porcupine who gets lost in the woods — for the children at Le Foyer du Bonheur. The Scientologists wanted to give the children an encore performance next week, but nursery owner Uri Ravel has quashed the plan: "I don't want any preaching in ...
Jul 21, 1985
Oregon decision has bearing on city, sect says — Clearwater Sun (Florida)
Jul 17, 1985
Church doesn't win legal fees court says Scientologists can't collect from Clearwater mayor — Orlando Sentinel
Type: Press
Author(s): Al Truesdell
Source: Orlando Sentinel
DAYTONA BEACH — The Church of Scientology is not entitled to collect legal fees of $740,000 from the former mayor of Clearwater and his wife who filed and later dropped a lawsuit against the organization, an appeal court ruled Tuesday. Ruling without comment, the 5th District Court of Appeal upheld a lower court decision in the case involving Gabriel and Margaret Cazares. Volusia Circuit Judge Robert Miller said last August the church had failed to prove that the $1.5 million lawsuit ...
Jul 17, 1985
New Scientology trial ordered — Los Angeles Times (California)
Jul 17, 1985
Scientology case declared mistrial — Clearwater Sun (Florida)
Jul 16, 1985
Judge upsets $39-million award against Scientology — Los Angeles Times (California)
Jul 15, 1985
Scientology supplement [Letter] — Globe and Mail (Canada)
Type: Press
Source: Globe and Mail (Canada)
Toronto ONT — I was really delighted that The Globe and Mail circulated the 18- page supplement on Scientology. It is not surprising that some of your readers would take exception to this. Ignorance and bigotry is a burden that is carried on the shoulders of a few of us and, thank God, it is only the minority and does not express the majority. Paul Jaconello MD Toronto
Jul 2, 1985
State high court stays Scientology lawsuit — Los Angeles Times (California)
Type: Press
Source: Los Angeles Times (California)
SAN FRANCISCO — The California Supreme Court today granted a stay requested by the Church of Scientology in a lawsuit by a former church member. Justice Allen E. Broussard granted the stay, which will remain in effect until the court can hear church arguments that religious beliefs cannot be tried. Lawyers for the church, accompanied to San Francisco by hundreds of demonstrators, on Monday asked the state Supreme Court to block the Los Angeles trial.
Jul 2, 1985
The State // [The Church of Scientology filed a petition...] — Los Angeles Times (California)
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Source: Los Angeles Times (California)
The Church of Scientology filed a petition with the California Supreme Court seeking to halt a $25-million damage suit against the church by a former member. About 800 church supporters rallied outside the state court building in downtown San Francisco after marching nine miles from the Golden Gate Bridge. Rev. Ken Hoden, president of the Church of Scientology in Los Angeles and the church's attorney, filed the petition with the Supreme Court for an "immediate stay of trial" in the Los ...
Jun 28, 1985
Insights // Train of thought? — L.A. Weekly (California)
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Source: L.A. Weekly (California)
Train of Thought? Hard on the heels of a $39 million damage award in Portland against the Church of Scientology comes a Los Angeles case that may create even more waves. Larry Wollersheim is suing the religion/corporation for more than $25 million in damages, claiming he was sold more than $100,000 worth of Scientology training on the basis of bogus promises that the training would raise his I.Q., make him "well" and give him "supernatural powers." On Monday, July 1, Wollersheirn's ...
Jun 28, 1985
Scientologists picket court over freedom issue — Los Angeles Times (California)
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Author(s): Myrna Oliver
Source: Los Angeles Times (California)
About 400 members of the Church of Scientology's Crusade for Religious Freedom picketed the Los Angeles County Courthouse on Thursday, protesting what they consider to be court infringement on their constitutional right to religious freedom. In a unique courthouse scene, more than half the group lined a hallway five deep on each side outside the courtroom of Judge Paul G. Breckenridge Jr. during a hearing on former Scientologist Gerald Armstrong's $60-million fraud suit against the church. The disparate group, which included ...
Jun 27, 1985
Altadena town council votes to deny permit to Scientologists — Los Angeles Times (California)
Type: Press
Author(s): Mark Arax
Source: Los Angeles Times (California)
ALTADENA — The Town Council has voted to deny a conditional-use permit needed by an affiliate of the Church of Scientology to purchase a 198-acre former hospital complex in the foothills. The 8-2 vote Monday against the granting of the permit serves only as a recommendation and does not bind the Los Angeles County Regional Planning Commission, which will consider the matter and make a final decision in the fall. The vote ended more than a month of emotional debate over ...
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