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22 matching items found between Jan 1985 and Jun 1985. Furthermore, there are 2 matching items for all time not shown.
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May 30, 1985
Scientologists argue for mistrial — Clearwater Sun (Florida)
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Source: Clearwater Sun (Florida)
PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — More than 1,000 Scientologists lined the halls of a county courthouse and marched outside Wednesday while a lawyer argued for a mistrial in the case of a $39 million fraud judgment for a former member of the group. Jurors who returned the judgment against the Church of Scientology were deliberately misled by the plaintiff's attorney, said Earle C. Cooley, a lawyer for the group, in arguments before Multnomah County Circuit Judge Donald H. Londer. Cooley also contended ...
May 30, 1985
Scientology on trial — Willamette Week
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Author(s): Bill Driver
Source: Willamette Week
Why a Portland jury awarded $39 million in damages against one of the world's most profitable cults. ONE SUNNY AFTERNOON last week, an elderly man, who looked as though he had probably spent the past few nights sleeping under the stars, stood in the southeast corner of Lownsdale Square in downtown Portland gazing in bewilderment at the scene before him. Several hundred people, many wearing T-shirts proclaiming something about a crusade for religious freedom, gathered around a large stage in the ...
May 22, 1985
Powwow amid protest — Clearwater Sun (Florida)
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Julie Christofferson Titchbourne, who received a $39 million fraud judgment against the Church of Scientology, listens Monday afternoon as her lawyer, Garry McMurray, explains details of the case in Portland, Ore. On Tuesday, more than 500 Scientologists marched to the capitol in Salem during the fifth day of their verdict protest. The marchers linked arms and sang 'We Shall Overcome' and 'America the Beautiful.'
May 21, 1985
Lawyer's tactics 'gift from heaven' for Titchbourne side — The Oregonian (Portland)
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Author(s): Fred Leeson
Source: The Oregonian (Portland)
PORTLAND ATTORNEY Ted Runstein was arguing a pretrial motion last March on behalf of the Church of Scientology when a portly Boston Irishman with thinning red hair and a fat briefcase ambled into the courtroom and parked himself at the counsel table. "I'm too old to fight the preliminaries," the Boston lawyer told Multnomah Circuit Judge Donald H. Londer. "I'm just measuring the ring and getting a feel for the rules. I'll be here for the main event." Such was the ...
May 21, 1985
Scientology trial jurors ignored advertising blitz — The Oregonian (Portland)
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Author(s): Fred Leeson
Source: The Oregonian (Portland)
The Church of Scientology in Portland waged an expensive, large-scale advertising campaign throughout the fraud trial that led to a $39 million verdict against the church and its founder, but jurors said they paid no attention to it. Printed advertisements appeared frequently in daily and weekly newspapers in the Portland area throughout the 10-week trial, and radio and television commercials were played on several local stations. Two jurors who were interviewed Monday said the jury's decision was based on long discussions ...
May 21, 1985
Travolta & other Scientologists swarm into Portland to protest — Seattle Post-Intelligencer
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Author(s): John McCoy, S.L. Sanger
Source: Seattle Post-Intelligencer
PORTLAND, Ore. — Thousands of Scientologists, including actor John Travolta and jazz musician Chick Corea, showed, up in Portland yesterday to rally behind their beleaguered church. Members of the Church of Scientology flew to Portland from all over the United States and as far away as Europe and South America. In Seattle, about 80 Scientologists singing "We Shall Overcome" and protesting what they called an assault on religious freedom gathered last night at the Flag Pavilion in Seattle Center. The Scientologists, ...
May 21, 1985
Travolta joins sect protest of $39 million judgment — Clearwater Sun (Florida)
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PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — Thousands of Scientologists, buoyed by an appearance by church member John Travolta, marched downtown Monday in the third day of protests over a $39 million fraud judgment against their church and its leader. Police Sgt. Jay Decker estimated "a few thousand" Church of Scientology members participated in the demonstration. "There will be more," he predicted, as the weeklong series of rallies and concerts progresses. Scientologists had been arriving in Portland from across the United States, Europe and ...
May 19, 1985
Scientologists converge on Portland for protest: Thousands to assail award of $39 million to ex-member in suit — Los Angeles Times (California)
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Author(s): Jan Klunder
Source: Los Angeles Times (California)
Several thousand members of the Church of Scientology are planning to converge on Portland, Ore., today and Monday to protest a jury's $39-million damage award to a former church member who claimed that she was defrauded out of $3,253 by the group. The Rev. Kathleen Gorgon, president of the Church of Scientology of California, said that several hundred members left Saturday from the church's Hollywood headquarters by car, bus, train and plane to join others from around the world in a ...
May 18, 1985
Church of Scientology loses $39 million in fraud lawsuit — New York Times
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Source: New York Times
A jury today awarded $39 million to a woman who says the Church of Scientology defrauded her with claims it would improve her eyesight and make her more intelligent. The Multnomah Circuit Court jury, after a 10-week trial and two and a half days of deliberations, found that the church defrauded the woman, Julie Christofferson Titchbourne, who had been a church member for nine months. "This is a ridiculous decision," said Earle C. Cooley, a, attorney representing the church. "The Constitution ...
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May 18, 1985
Titchbourne hopes $39 million award may help others — The Oregonian (Portland)
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Author(s): Fred Leeson
Source: The Oregonian (Portland)
After winning a $39 million judgment against the Church of Scientology late Friday afternoon, Julie Christofferson Titchbourne said she hoped to establish a foundation to help other victims of thought-control organizations. Titchbourne, a soft-spoken civil engineer who hugged her mother, husband and lawyers after hearing the jury's decision, said she hoped her experience could be turned to an advantage for others whose lives need rebuilding. During a brief appearance before reporters outside the courtroom door, neither Titchbourne nor one of her ...
May 18, 1985
Woman awarded $39 million in Scientology suit — The Oregonian (Portland)
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Author(s): Fred Leeson
Source: The Oregonian (Portland)
A Multnomah County Circuit Court jury awarded $39 million in punitive damages Friday to a Portland woman after finding that she was victimized by "wanton misconduct" by the Church of Scientology and its founder, L. Ron Hubbard. The verdict was returned in favor of Julie Christofferson Titchbourne, 27, after 2½ days of deliberations and a 10-week trial. One of her lawyers, Ronald L. Wade, said it was the biggest punitive damages verdict in Oregon history. The jury also awarded fraud damages ...
May 18, 1985
Woman awarded $39 million in Scientology trial — Clearwater Sun (Florida)
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Author(s): Roch Thornton
Source: Clearwater Sun (Florida)
PORTLAND, Ore.—A jury Friday awarded $39 million to a woman who says the Church of Scientology defrauded her with claims it would improve her eyesight and make her more intelligent. The Multnomah Circuit Court jury, after a 10-week trial and 2½ days of deliberations, found the church defrauded Julie Christofferson Titchbourne, a church member for nine months, in 1975 and 1976. "This is a ridiculous decision. The Constitution is in serious trouble in the state of Oregon and we will appeal," ...
May 10, 1985
Church civil fraud trial nears end — The Oregonian (Portland)
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Author(s): Fred Leeson
Source: The Oregonian (Portland)
The end of a civil fraud trial against the Church of Scientology and its founder L. Ron Hubbard drew unexpectedly closer Wednesday when the defense announced it would call no more witnesses on the church’s behalf. Defense attorney Earle C. Cooley surprised his opposition by resting the defense case early Wednesday in Multnomah County Circuit Court after one week of testimony and eight witnesses. Cooley’s decision means the church will not call any high-ranking officials to refute claims that the reclusive ...
May 10, 1985
Scientology case testimony ends — The Oregonian (Portland)
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Testimony in a civil fraud trial against the Church of Scientology and its founder, L. Ron Hubbard, ended Thursday in Multnomah County Circuit Court near the end of the ninth week of trial. Circuit Judge Donald H. Londer scheduled closing arguments to begin Monday and indicated that they would last at least two days. Loader and attorneys in the case plan to spend most of Friday discussing legal instructions to be delivered to the jury at the close of arguments. The ...
May 2, 1985
Scientologists open defense in civil suit — The Oregonian (Portland)
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Author(s): Fred Leeson
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A Church of Scientology member who said her involvement in the church helped free her life of drugs and excessive use of alcohol testified Wednesday that the church helped pay for a 1978 lawsuit she filed against opponents of the church. Jessica Marks, a former Portland resident, appeared as the first witness for the church in defense of a $42 million civil fraud trial in Multnomah County Circuit Court against the church and its founder, L. Ron Hubbard. The fraud suit ...
May 1, 1985
Founder of Scientology faces default judgement — The Oregonian (Portland)
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Author(s): Fred Leeson
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A Multnomah County judge entered a default judgment Tuesday against L. Ron Hubbard, the controversial founder of the Church of Scientology, as a long-running civil fraud trial against Hubbard and the church reached the halfway mark. Circuit Judge Donald H. Londer signed the default against the reclusive Hubbard at the conclusion of the plaintiff's case in the eighth week of trial. Hubbard, who has not been seen publicly since 1980, did not appear for the trial. Londer's ruling means Hubbard by ...
Apr 26, 1985
Witness says Scientology founder veiled income — The Oregonian (Portland)
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Author(s): Fred Leeson
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A former personal secretary to L. Ron Hubbard, the founder of the Church of Scientology, told a Portland jury Thursday about a secret system Hubbard used in the 1970s for collecting personal income from church organizations. Laurel J. Sullivan, who said she worked closely with Hubbard until he disappeared from public view in 1980, also testified that Hubbard held managerial control over numerous Scientology organizations despite his publicly announced "retirement" from church management in 1966. Contrary to a 1972 church policy ...
Apr 19, 1985
Witness says judge probed — The Oregonian (Portland)
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Author(s): Fred Leeson
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A Portland judge who presided over a fraud trial involving the Church of Scientology in 1979 was the target of a covert operation by the church aimed at learning his attitudes about drug usage and sexual promiscuity, a former Scientologist testified Thursday. Martin L. Samuels, former head of the church in Portland, also testified that he and other church officials lied in the 1979 trial and that one reluctant ex-Scientologist was paid either $5,000 or $7,000 to testify on behalf of ...
Apr 12, 1985
New secret tapes revealed in lawsuit — The Oregonian (Portland)
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Author(s): Fred Leeson
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The existence of two more surreptitiously made videotapes involving conversations of a former member of the Church of Scientology was revealed in court Thursday, one day after church lawyers said they had no knowledge of any more such tapes. The new tapes bring to four the number of meetings in which the former Scientologist, who has attacked the church, was videotaped without his knowledge during meetings with church members who led him to believe they were trying to reform church practices. ...
Apr 11, 1985
Scientology trial jury views surreptiously made videotapes — The Oregonian (Portland)
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Author(s): Fred Leeson
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The Church of Scientology struck back Wednesday against a former member who testified against the church by playing to a Portland jury videotapes, made surreptitiously, in which the man discussed placing phony documents in church files. Multnomah Circuit Judge Donald H. Londer allowed the 108 minutes of tapes, made in a Los Angeles park last November, to be played to the jury as evidence of bias on the part of Gerald D. Armstrong against the church. "I can create documents with ...
Apr 9, 1985
Lawyers hassle at Scientology trial — The Oregonian (Portland)
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Lawyers in the long-running Scientology fraud trial in Portland traded accusations Monday during an unusual day in which no testimony was presented to the jurors. Jurors were confined to a small room down the hall while Multnomah County Circuit Judge Donald H. Londer waded through a series of legal issues, including complaints against each other from attorneys leading each side of the case. Garry P. McMurry, representing a Portland woman suing the Church of Scientology for fraud arising from her involvement ...
Mar 12, 1985
Scientology suit goes to trial for second time — The Oregonian (Portland)
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Author(s): Fred Leeson
Source: The Oregonian (Portland)
A young woman who once won and then lost more than $2 million in damages against the Church of Scientology in Portland started a second legal attack Monday on grounds that Scientologists defrauded her during nine months in 1975 and 1976. Julie Christofferson Titchbourne, who began her involvement with the church when she was 17, is asking a Multnomah County Circuit Court jury to return $3,253 she paid for courses and books and to award punitive damages as high as $42 ...
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