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Nov 18, 1993
TV talk-show host will testify in Ann Arbor — Detroit Free PressMore: link
Type: Press
Author(s):
Maryanne George Source:
Detroit Free Press Tabloid TV queen Sally Jessy Raphael, who peers through her trademark red eyeglasses and titillates talk-show audiences with tough questions, will be asked to answer some zingers herself today in Ann Arbor. Raphael is to testify in a high-profile, lawsuit stemming from an episode about the Church of Scientology. Church staffer Dorothy Dickerson, 61, of Albion claims Raphael invaded her privacy and caused her emotional distress in 1991, after a conversation between Dickerson and her children was secretly recorded by a ...
Nov 9, 1993
NARCONON INT ED 38 / NARCONON ENROLLMENT POLICY
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[PDF pages 32-34]
Nov 9, 1993
Talk show host may testify here in Scientology suit — Ann Arbor NewsMore: link
Type: Press
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Ann Arbor News Woman charges Sally Jessy Raphael's airing of a conversation filmed here violated her privacy. On a warm June Sunday two years ago, Dorothy Jean Dickerson was teaching a Sunday school class when she had a surprise visit from her two grown children. They walked over to a little park in downtown Ann Arbor and talked about her religious life and how she had been out of touch with her children. The conversation, part of the children's desperate attempt to get their ...
Oct 28, 1993
Atkinson-Baker & Associates, Inc. v. James G. Kolts More: holysmoke.org
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Atkinson-baker & Associates, Inc., Plaintiff-appellant, v. James G. Kolts, in His Official Capacity, Defendant-appellee United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit. - 7 F.3d 1452 Submitted Oct. 20, 1993*.Decided Oct. 28, 1993 —– Michael T. Stoller, Besbris, Hollis & Stoller, Los Angeles, CA, for plaintiff-appellant. Terree A. Bowers, U.S. Atty., Leon W. Weidman, George H. Wu, Asst. U.S. Attys., Los Angeles, CA, for defendant-appellee. Appeal from the United States District Court for the Central District of California. Before: BEEZER, KOZINSKI, and ...
Oct 24, 1993
IRS examined Scientology dollars, not dogma — St. Petersburg Times (Florida)More: link , pqasb.pqarchiver.com
Type: Press
Author(s):
David Dahl Source:
St. Petersburg Times (Florida) When the IRS granted tax exemptions to the church, it did so mainly on the basis of what Scientology did with its money. WASHINGTON — It might be easier for a camel to walk through the eye of a needle than for the IRS to judge the merits of a religion. So when it comes to considering tax exemptions, the agency sticks to what it knows: money. For the Church of Scientology, which won a series of tax exemptions earlier this ...
Oct 21, 1993
Clearwater to keep battling Scientology — St. Petersburg Times (Florida)More: link
Type: Press
Author(s):
Ned Seaton Source:
St. Petersburg Times (Florida) At issue is an ordinance on solicitations. At stake is residents' security — or religious freedom. CLEARWATER — The city is still fighting the Church of Scientology. Despite a strongly worded recent court decision in favor of Scientology, city commissioners have decided to continue the decade-long legal battle over a rule that would let the city police the organization's financial records. The commissioners reached their decision at a closed-door meeting Tuesday, Alan Zimmet, a lawyer who attended the meeting, said Wednesday. ...
Oct 21, 1993
Scientology ruling to be appealed — Tampa Tribune (Florida)More: link
Type: Press
Author(s):
Ardon M. Pallasch Source:
Tampa Tribune (Florida) CLEARWATER — City commissioners will appeal a controversial ordinance to the U.S. Supreme Court, if necessary, to ensure they can enforce it, the city's attorney on the case said Wednesday. "They [city commissioners] are resolved to pursue forward and fight," said attorney Alan Zimmet, who is handling the appeal. But further appeals of the ordinance, which would require churches to disclose how they spend money donated by church members, would be foolish, said Richard Haworth, spokesman for the Church of Scientology. ...
Oct 20, 1993
Advertising // Church of Scientology to launch campaign to improve its image — Wall Street JournalMore: link
Type: Press
Author(s):
Laura Bird Source:
Wall Street Journal The Church of Scientology, having just won tax-exempt status, after a bitter, decades-long battle with the Internal Revenue Service, is now ready to take on media critics in a major promotional campaign to try to mend its public image. Early this month, the Internal Revenue Service notified 30 entities within the Church of Scientology hierarchy that they would be recognized as tax-exempt organizations, whose donation income isn't subject to federal income tax. Church officials hailed the decision, saying it would allow ...
Oct 17, 1993
Media watch // The church and the magazines — Los Angeles Times (California)More: link
Type: Press
Author(s):
Jane Galbraith Source:
Los Angeles Times (California) No one would ever accuse the Church of Scientology of not being vigilant about its press coverage, especially when it comes to its famous Hollywood members. One of the latest cases in point was the 2,000-word response in Premiere magazine after a recent story about Scientology's ties to the entertainment industry. This was followed by the publication of a 16-page booklet dubbed "Premiere Propaganda." "Premiere's reporter was not interested in writing a fair story on the church. Instead he went out ...
Oct 14, 1993
Church declared tax-free — Tampa Tribune (Florida)
Oct 14, 1993
Ruling may doom Pinellas tax suit against Scientology — St. Petersburg Times (Florida)More: news.google.com , link
Type: Press
Author(s):
Wayne Garcia Source:
St. Petersburg Times (Florida) The IRS' exemption of the Church of Scientology may doom the county's effort to collect a tax bill exceeding $7.9-million. CLEARWATER — Pinellas County's property tax lawsuit against the Church of Scientology is badly wounded by an Internal Revenue Service ruling that exempts the organization from federal income taxes, Property Appraiser Jim Smith said Wednesday. The two sides are headed back to mediation that likely will result in many, if not all, of the Scientology properties being removed from the property ...
Sep 1, 1993
Catch a rising star — Premiere (magazine)More: link
Jun 14, 1993
Church's litany of lawsuits — The National Law JournalMore: link
Type: Press
Author(s):
Andrew Blum Source:
The National Law Journal Scientology's leaders say the best defense is a good offense. DID THE CHURCH of Scientology kill a judge's dog during a trial? Did the judge, who is now dead, think church members did? Did that lead him to be prejudiced, and bias the jury against the church? These and other issues are part of an intense battle by the church's litigation machine to overturn what remains of a $30 million verdict won in 1986 by former church member Larry Wollersheim. Mr. ...
May 17, 1993
Church members file suit against professor, officials — Daily Bruin (University of California)More: link
Type: Press
Author(s):
Nancy Hsu Source:
Daily Bruin (University of California) Two UCLA extension students in the Church of Scientology have filed suit against UCLA professor Louis Jolyon West, the Board of Regents and Chancellor Charles Young for allegedly using taxpayer money to fund anti-religious activities.
The university has yet to respond to the suit filed last month with the Santa Monica Superior Court.
John Van Dyke and Mario Majorski charge that, while on the University of California payroll, West used his position to organize anti-religious seminars and two groups that target ...
Apr 10, 1993
Scientologists sue UCLA professor // University is also named a defendant — Daily Breeze (California)More: link
Type: Press
Author(s):
Pat Alston Source:
Daily Breeze (California) The Church of Scientology, bristling from public criticism by a nationally recognized psychiatrist and UCLA professor, has sued the outspoken educator and the university. In a lawsuit filed this week in Santa Monica Superior Court, two student followers of the controversial church claim that Dr. Louis J. West has waged a smear campaign of religious intolerance and hatred on university time. The verbal attacks by a representative of the state university system and his alleged "anti-religious activity" are violations of state ...
Mar 21, 1993
Bittersweet - Cocolat and Scientology / Some of Cocolat's ex-workers claim that the company's newest ingredient is Scientology — San Francisco Examiner (California)More: stop-wise.biz , link
Type: Press
Author(s):
Erin McCormick Source:
San Francisco Examiner (California) Some of Cocolat's ex-workers claim that the company's newest ingredient is Scientology by Erin McCormick of the Examiner Staff It was once the sweetheart of the Bay Area business world - a woman-run chocolate company that grew from a single storefront to a national success. Now, two years since an employee's embezzlement forced the sale of Cocolat Chocolate Co., an unlikely mix is brewing at the company's Hayward plant: Scientology and chocolate. The mixture has been volatile. Cocolat is the latest ...
Feb 26, 1993
Daily Appellate Report Summaries [Philip A. Hart v. Cult Awareness Network] — Daily Journal (Los Angeles, California)
Jan 28, 1993
Scientology case — Wall Street Journal
Jan 27, 1993
$2.9M in fees awarded in church dispute — Daily Journal (Los Angeles, California)
Jan 23, 1993
Church of Scientology a big loser in S.B. case / Can the road map to salvation be copyrighted? — Santa Barbara Independent (California)More: lermanet.com
Dec 17, 1992
Letters: Reply to attacks — Chichester Observer (UK)
Oct 31, 1992
Scientologists win a battle in long war — Los Angeles Times (California)More: link
Type: Press
Author(s):
Jim Newton Source:
Los Angeles Times (California) Religion: Judge says Cult Awareness Network must let church members attend L.A. convention. But conference organizers fear longtime foes will disrupt activities. Members of the Church of Scientology won a court victory over a longtime foe Friday, clearing the way for a group of Scientologists to attend the Cult Awareness Network's national convention in Los Angeles next week. The ruling in Los Angeles County Superior Court is the latest development in an escalating feud between the two organizations. The battle erupted ...
Oct 12, 1992
Scientologists sue anti-cult group // Church alleges discrimination after it is barred from joining — Sacramento Bee (California)More: link
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Sacramento Bee (California) BOSTON — Scientologists, long a target of deprogrammers, have gone to court to try to turn the tables, claiming that they were illegally barred from joining an anti-cult group. In a flurry of lawsuits filed around the nation, dozens of members of the Church of Scientology said they tried to join the Cult Awareness Network but were rejected because of their church affiliation. Many of the lawsuits were filed last week after a federal grand jury indicted three alleged members of ...
Oct 7, 1992
Cult awareness group being sued — Glendale News-Press (California)More: link
Type: Press
Author(s):
Gabor Komaromy Source:
Glendale News-Press (California) Seven self-professed "parishioners" of the Church of Scientology have filed religious discrimination lawsuits against the Cult Awareness Network and five members of the group, including a Glendale resident, in Glendale Superior Court. In the lawsuits, filed Friday and Monday, the plaintiffs allege that they have been denied access to the Cult Awareness Network's national convention, to be held in November, on grounds of their religious beliefs. The seven lawsuits — practically identical except for the plaintiffs' names — claim that the ...
Sep 29, 1992
Scientologists accuse local woman — Glendale News-Press (California)More: link
Type: Press
Author(s):
Sophie Yarborough Source:
Glendale News-Press (California) Members of a group led by a supporter of the Church of Scientology have alerted Glendale police to alleged "deprogramming" activities of a Glendale woman. Kevin Hulce, a member of the Church of Scientology, along with two members of the Deprogramming Survivor's Network, accused Priscilla Coates of conspiring with Hulce's parents to turn him away from the religious group formed by the late science fiction writer L. Ron Hubbard. "Because Priscilla Coates lives in Glendale, Kevin thought the police might like ...
Aug 30, 1992
Couple's Scientology lesson costly // After forking over thousands of dollars, a few things become clear — Indianapolis Star (Indiana)More: link
Type: Press
Author(s):
Kay Stephens Source:
Indianapolis Star (Indiana) The tale of Jon and Stacy Roberts and the Church of Scientology is the story of a typical couple, in many ways, who were looking for answers. When the financial advice they sought turned into spiritual guidance, the couple began to regret the direction their search had taken. In the process, they gave more than $100,000 to the Church of Scientology and an organization connected with it. Now they want to warn others not to do the same. Jon Roberts filed ...
Aug 20, 1992
IRS must pay Scientologists $16,881 — Los Angeles Times (California)More: link
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Los Angeles Times (California) A federal judge in Los Angeles has ordered the Internal Revenue Service to pay the Church of Scientology $16,881 for legal fees it incurred during a two-year battle over records requested under the Freedom of Information Act. In 1989, the Scientologists filed a request for any government files indicating that the church had been designated a "tax protester." The IRS refused to turn over that information, and the Scientologists filed suit to force its release. Eventually, the IRS turned over a ...
Aug 15, 1992
Narconon gets state mental health exemption — The OklahomanMore: link
Type: Press
Author(s):
Michael McNutt ,
Enid Bureau Source:
The Oklahoman A controversial drug and alcohol abuse center in north-central Oklahoma achieved a big victory Friday in its two-year battle for state approval. Less than a year after calling Narconon Chilocco New Life Center's treatment program unsafe and experimental, the Oklahoma Board of Mental Health and Substance Abuse Services voted unanimously Friday to exempt the facility from a state requirement to be certified. The decision came after Narconon showed it had gained approval from a private organization, the Commission for Accreditation of ...
Jul 29, 1992
Silicon Valley firm sued over Scientology issue — Sacramento Bee (California)More: link
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Sacramento Bee (California) SANTA CLARA — Former employees of Applied Materials have filed suit alleging that the Silicon Valley manufacturing firm forced them to undergo Church of Scientology seminars. Trial proceedings began Tuesday as lawyers for both sides argued motions before Santa Clara County Superior Court Judge Frank Cliff. In their suit, former employees Steven Hunziker, Virginia Sanders and Kate Schuchmann allege that Applied Materials hired an outside firm to teach workers communication and time-management skills. But the seminar firm, Applied Scholastics of Fremont, ...
Jul 1, 1992
The two faces of Scientology — The American LawyerMore: link
Type: Press
Author(s):
William W. Horne Source:
The American Lawyer The Church of Scientology uses private detectives and bulldog litigators to pursue its numerous detractors. It also hires low-key establishment lawyers who work quietly within the system. So who is directing the $416 million libel suit against Time ? On April 27, 1992, lawyers for the Church of Scientology International filed a $416 million libel action in federal court in New York against Time Warner, Inc., Time Inc. Magazine Company [Time Warner is a partner in American Lawyer Media, L.P. ], and writer ...
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