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Oct 27, 1989
Court rejects challenges to award in Scientology case — Los Angeles Times (California)More: link
Type: Press
Author(s):
Philip Hager Source:
Los Angeles Times (California) Lawsuit: State justices let stand an appellate ruling that a 'preposterous' $30 million in damages for a former church member be reduced to $2.5 million. SAN FRANCISCO — The state Supreme Court on Thursday rejected challenges to a ruling that dramatically reduced a jury award of $30 million against the Church of Scientology for coercive practices that drove a former member to the edge of insanity and bankruptcy. The high court let stand a decision by the state Court of Appeal ...
Aug 15, 1989
Letters // On Scientology — St. Petersburg Times (Florida)More: news.google.com , pqasb.pqarchiver.com
Type: Press
Source:
St. Petersburg Times (Florida) Editor: I was in Scientology for 12 years. Now I face being jailed because I am talking to the public about the real story of Scientology — that it involves hypnosis, brainwashing, and satanism. All because I am trying to prevent what happened to me from happening to other people. It may seem by my violations of the court order not to speak publicly about Scientology that I have no respect for the law. Such is not the case. In fact ...
Aug 10, 1989
Ex-Member defies gag order, speaks out against Scientology — Associated PressMore: link
Type: Press
Source:
Associated Press TAMPA, Fla. (AP) — A former member of the Church of Scientology is defying church lawyers and a federal judge by publicly alleging that the church held her captive and committed fraud by promising to cure her mental illness. Margery Wakefield, 41, is prohibited under a 1986 federal court settlement from speaking out against the cult, which has its spiritual headquarters in Clearwater. But she says she is ignoring the gag order so she can expose church practices and warn potential ...
Aug 2, 1989
Ex-Scientologist risks jail to speak against church — Orlando SentinelMore: link
Type: Press
Author(s):
Claire Dezern Source:
Orlando Sentinel TAMPA — You shouldn't be reading this story. The tale of Margery Wakefield vs. the Church of Scientology is supposed to be a secret. Church officials say so. So does a federal judge. In fact, Wakefield could go to jail for talking about the 12 years she spent as a member of the cult, which has its spiritual headquarters in Clearwater. Wakefield, 41, is talking anyway, braving the threats of Scientology lawyers and testing the patience of a U.S. district judge. ...
Tag(s):
Auditing •
Bill Daugherty •
Body thetans (BTs) •
Brainwashing •
Children, youth •
Cost •
Craig Dezern •
Cult Awareness Network (CAN) (earlier form, Citizen's Freedom Foundation) •
Cynthia Kisser •
False imprisonment •
Ford Greene •
Fraud, lie, deceit, misrepresentation •
Hypnosis •
Judge Elizabeth Kovachevich •
L. Ron Hubbard's credentials •
Lawsuit •
Margery Wakefield •
Medical claims •
Mental illness •
Moonies •
Orlando Sentinel •
Paul B. Johnson •
Release contract, form, waiver •
Settlement •
Silencing criticism, censorship •
Supernatural abilities (aka OT powers) •
Xenu (Operating Thetan level 3, OT 3, Wall of Fire)
Jul 19, 1989
Larry Wollersheim v. Church of Scientology of California — Daily Appellate Report
Nov 17, 1988
The cult wars // Ten years after Jonestown, the battle intensifies over the influence of 'alternative' religions — Los Angeles Times (California)More: link
Type: Press
Author(s):
Bob Sipchen Source:
Los Angeles Times (California) Eldridge Broussard Jr.'s face screwed into a grimace of such anger and pain that the unflappable Oprah Winfrey seemed unnerved. It hurts to be branded "the new Jimmy Jones" by a society eager to condemn what it doesn't understand, the founder of the Ecclesia Athletic Assn. lamented on TV just a few days after his 8-year-old daughter had been beaten to death, apparently by Ecclesia members. At issue were complex questions of whether the group he had formed to instill discipline ...
Oct 18, 1988
Church can be sued on recruiting // Beliefs protected but not conduct, Justices rule — Los Angeles Times (California)More: link
Type: Press
Author(s):
Philip Hager Source:
Los Angeles Times (California) SAN FRANCISCO — In a major ruling on the separation of church and state, the California Supreme Court held Monday that a religious organization may be sued for fraud for allegedly "brainwashing" unknowing recruits into joining the church. The justices ruled 6 to 1 that two former members of the Rev. Sun Myung Moon's Unification Church can proceed to trial with claims that they were tricked by recruiters who denied they were church members and then used subtle "mind-control" techniques to ...
Nov 27, 1987
High court to hear appeal of suit accusing Moon's church of fraud — Los Angeles Times (California)More: pqasb.pqarchiver.com
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 ...
Nov 8, 1987
Cult's private detective fires at journalists — The Sunday Times (UK)More: link
Type: Press
Author(s):
Richard Palmer Source:
The Sunday Times (UK) A private detective employed by representatives of the Church of Scientology cult to investigate one of its opponents, shot at a Sunday Times reporter and photographer and threatened to kill them last week. The detective, Jarl Grieve Einar Cynewulf, fired a pistol at the journalists after saying: "You'd better go now unless you want to end up in a wooden box. Do you want to be another Hungerford martyr?" Although the gun was fired from close range, the journalists escaped unharmed ...
Apr 4, 1986
Inside Scientology — Finally [Ideological totalism?] — L.A. Weekly (California)More: link
Type: Press
Author(s):
Ron Curran ,
Jennifer Pratt Source:
L.A. Weekly (California) Ideological Totalism? Juliann Savage is a clinical social worker in the Cult Clinic, six years a non-sectarian affiliate of Jewish Family Services operating out of the United Way building in Van Nuys. Savage has treated more than 70 victims of mind control, from Hare Krishnas to Moonies, in her two and a half years on staff. She insists the 10 former Scientologists with whom she has worked have been her most difficult assignments. "These people have given their entire lives over ...
Nov 19, 1985
$12,000 spent on Scientology course: suit — Montreal Gazette
Type: Press
Author(s):
Rod MacDonell Source:
Montreal Gazette A Montreal stockbroker who claims he was
brainwashed last year by members of the Church of Scientology testified yesterday that he paid $12,000 to the sect for personality courses. Gilles Lanthier, 28, told Sessions Court Judge Benjamin Schecter that he began having doubts about the sect when he was told to abandon his wife and seek further Scientology instruction in Toronto. He said that his personality courses were to cost $22,000, but a church member told him he had been ...
Mar 21, 1985
Ex-Scientology executive says church investigated plaintiff — The Oregonian (Portland)
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