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arnaldo p. "arnie" lerma • bankruptcy • church of scientology international (csi) • copyright, trademark, patent • cult awareness network (can) (earlier form, citizen's freedom foundation) • daniel a. leipold • death • dennis erlich • deprogramming • factnet • fair game • germany • jason scott • judge leonie m. brinkema • kendrick l. moxon • lawrence "larry" wollersheim • lawsuit • legal • lisa mcpherson • religious technology center (rtc) • rick ross • seattle times • silencing criticism, censorship • warren l. mcshane • washington post
Reference materials Red Cross building @ 624 Court Street Clearwater FL United States
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Mar 30, 1999
Scientologists settle legal battle — CNET
Type: Press
Author(s): Courtney Macavinta
Source: CNET
The Church of Scientology International has settled a long-standing legal battle to repossess about 2,000 unpublished and copyrighted documents and keep them from being accessed by computer users in the future. Under a settlement reached in a U.S. district court earlier this month, a Colorado-based nonprofit group called FACTNet is permanently enjoined to pay the church $1 million if FACTNet is found guilty of future violations of church copyrights. FACTNet, started by former Scientologist Lawrence Wollersheim, also promised to return all ...
Item contributed by: Ron Sharp
Mar 22, 1999
Supreme court rules against anti-cult network — Seattle Times
Type: Press
Source: Seattle Times
WASHINGTON, D.C. - The U.S. Supreme Court today left intact a $1.08 million award against the Cult Awareness Network over the 1991 abduction and attempted deprogramming of a young Kirkland man. The justices, without comment, rejected an appeal that challenged the award as illegal and unconstitutional. Lawyers for the now-defunct, Chicago-based network said that holding the nonprofit group legally accountable for the act of one unpaid volunteer was "unprecedented and unsupportable." The appeal said the award threatens other advocacy groups "across ...
Feb 4, 1999
Scientology courts acceptance in Europe — Seattle Post-Intelligencer
Dec 29, 1998
Scientologists buy Red Cross building — St. Petersburg Times (Florida)
Aug 28, 1998
Court oks anti-cult jury award — Seattle Times
Type: Press
Author(s): Bob Egelko
Source: Seattle Times
SAN FRANCISCO — A federal appeals court has reaffirmed $1.09 million in damages against an anti-cult organization for its role in trying to "deprogram" a Washington state teenager, despite a warning from seven judges that free speech was under attack. The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals denied reconsideration Wednesday of a panel's 2-1 decision in April upholding damages against the Cult Awareness Network (CAN). Without announcing the exact vote, the court said a request for a rehearing had failed to ...
Apr 10, 1998
Court Upholds Damages In Kirkland Teen's Anti-Cult Case — Seattle Times
Type: Press
Author(s): Bob Egelko
Source: Seattle Times
SAN FRANCISCO - A $1.09 million damage award against an anti-cult organization for its role in trying to "deprogram" a Washington teenager at his mother's request was upheld Wednesday by a federal appeals court. There was evidence to support a jury's finding that a volunteer was acting on behalf of the Cult Awareness Network when she referred the mother, Kathy Tonkin of Kirkland, to deprogrammer Rick Ross, the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals said in its 2-1 ruling. Tonkin had ...
Item contributed by: Ron Sharp
Jan 29, 1998
Scientologists in trademark disputes — CNET
Type: Press
Author(s): Courtney Macavinta
Source: CNET
The Church of Scientology International is accusing two Web sites of trademark violation and is taking action to stop it. The church has threatened to see legal recourse against a Colorado Web site owner if he continues to run a site called "scientology-kills.net," which also sells T-shirts bearing the same phrase. In the second dispute, the church sent a letter to Tilman Hausherr of Berlin on Monday telling him to remove altered Scientology graphics from his CompuServe home page, which he ...
Item contributed by: Ron Sharp
Jan 28, 1998
Hardball: When Scientology goes to court, it likes to play rough -- very rough. — St. Petersburg Times (Florida)
Dec 24, 1997
Site proposed for library and City Hall — St. Petersburg Times (Florida)
More: groups.google.com
Type: Press
Author(s): Anita Kumar
Source: St. Petersburg Times (Florida)
CLEARWATER—City officials are considering building a new City Hall and a main library across from each other at the intersection of Cleveland Street and Myrtle Avenue. The proposal calls for the two buildings to face Cleveland Street, separated by a well-landscaped, decorative traffic circle. A drawing created by a consultant shows City Hall at the southwest corner, in place of an old hotel owned by the Church of Scientology. It puts the library at the northeast corner on the former Chick ...
Nov 8, 1997
U.S. Immigration Court Grants Asylum to German Scientologist — New York Times
Type: Press
Author(s): Douglas Frantz
Source: New York Times
TAMPA, Fla., Nov. 7 — A Federal immigration court judge has granted asylum to a German member of the Church of Scientology who claimed that she would be subjected to religious persecution had she been required to return to her homeland, the woman's lawyer and a Scientology official said today. While few details of the case were available, it is believed to be the first time the United States has given asylum protection to a Scientologist. The Church of Scientology has ...
Nov 6, 1997
German court undecided over Scientology — BBC News
Type: Press
Author(s): Janet Barrie
Source: BBC News
Item contributed by: Ron Sharp
Oct 28, 1997
Germany vs. Scientology // Group goes to court to seek status as a religion, not business — Seattle Times
Type: Press
Source: Seattle Times
BERLIN — A day after thousands of Scientologists demanded religious freedom in Germany, the Church of Scientology was trying to convince a German court today that it is a religion. A favorable decision by Germany's highest administrative court would entitle the group to benefits such as tax-exempt status and the freedom to recruit followers. The Los Angeles-based Church of Scientology won a legal battle in July when a court in the Baden-Wuerttemberg state capital, Stuttgart, ruled that Scientology was a religious ...
Item contributed by: Ron Sharp
Aug 10, 1997
Scientologists win partial court victory — The Guardian (UK)
More: link
Type: Press
Source: The Guardian (UK)
ON JULY 28, an appeal court in Lyon reduced the sentences of six members of the Scientology movement charged with responsibility for the suicide of one of their followers. The court also ruled that the "Church of Scientology" was entitled to call itself a religion. In so doing, the appeal court gave the movement created by the science-fiction writer Lafayette Ron Hubbard in 1954 a seal of approval it probably did not expect. The court justified its decision by invoking an ...
Jul 29, 1997
French court cuts sentence of a Scientology church leader — Los Angeles Times (California)
Type: Press
Source: Los Angeles Times (California)
LYONS, France — A French appeals court reduced the sentence Monday for a Church of Scientology leader convicted of involuntary homicide in the suicide of a member. The case centered on the March 1988 suicide of Patrice Vic, 31, who jumped out a window. Prosecutors said Vic was under pressure from the church to take a $5,000 "purification treatment," including daily saunas and a diet low in sugar and high in vitamins. The lower court said in November that Jean-Jacques Mazier ...
Mar 9, 1997
An ultra-aggressive use of investigators and the courts — New York Times
More: link
Type: Press
Author(s): Douglas Frantz
Source: New York Times
For years, Scientology has gone to great lengths to defend itself from critics. Often its defense has involved private investigators working for its lawyers. While the use of private investigators is common in the legal profession, some instances involving the church have been unusual. Scientology officials said that the investigators operated within the law and that the tactics were necessary to counter attacks made over the years by Internal Revenue Service agents and the press. "When people stop spreading lies about ...
Item contributed by: Ron Sharp
Mar 6, 1997
Nightmare on the Net — Denver Westword News
Type: Press
Author(s): Alan Prendergast
Source: Denver Westword News
A web of intrigue surrounds the high-stakes legal brawl between FACTnet and the Church of Scientology. Strange things happen around Lawrence Wollersheim. His businesses collapse. His Boulder apartment gets raided by federal marshals, his computers seized. When college students offer to help him rebuild his computer bulletin-board system, they receive threatening phone calls–anonymous voices urging them to stay away from Larry. A California judge who presided over a lawsuit in which Wollersheim was the plaintiff told reporters he'd encountered a lot ...
Item contributed by: Ron Sharp
Feb 14, 1997
Official, Scientology take battle to court — St. Petersburg Times (Florida)
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Jan 29, 1996
Court ruling backs internet copyright protection — Publisher's Weekly
Type: Press
Source: Publisher's Weekly
REPRESENTATIVES OF THE Religious Technology Center, an affiliate of the Church of Scientology, are claiming a victory for copyright protection in cyberspace as the result of a ruling handed down earlier this month. The suit was brought by the RTC against a former member who posted the teachings of the church on the Internet. In her ruling Federal District Court judge Leonie Brinkema denied the argument by Arnaodo Lerma that his posting of large portions of the church's scripture were protected ...
Sep 21, 1995
'Deprogrammer' Taken To Court -- Bellevue Man Claims Kidnap, Coercion — Seattle Times
Aug 31, 1995
Court lets newspaper keep Scientology texts — Seattle Times
Type: Press
Author(s): Charles W. Hall
Source: Seattle Times
WASHINGTON — A federal judge in Alexandria, Va., yesterday permitted The Washington Post to retain a copy of Church of Scientology texts and to use the texts in its news reporting, saying the paper's news-gathering rights far outweigh claims that the documents are protected by copyright and trade secrecy laws. U.S. District Judge Leonie Brinkema refused to issue a preliminary injunction against The Post, saying its excerpts of the church's texts in an Aug. 19 Style section article were brief and ...
Item contributed by: Ron Sharp
Jul 21, 1995
Court upholds libel suit against Scientology — Financial Post (Toronto)
Jul 20, 1995
Hill v. Church of Scientology of Toronto — Supreme Court of Canada
Feb 22, 1995
Scientology critic loses court bid — Los Angeles Times (California)
More: thecia.net
Type: Press
Author(s): Alan Abrahamson
Source: Los Angeles Times (California)
SAN JOSE - A Glendale critic of the Church of Scientology lost a round in federal court Tuesday as a judge declined to lift an order barring him from transmitting copyrighted religious texts onto the Internet. The order remains in effect against Dennis L. Erlich, a former church member. But U. S. District Judge Ronald M. Whyte rejected arguments by church lawyers and lifted restraining orders against a North Hollywood computer bulletin board operator and a San Jose-based Internet access supplier, ...
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