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Dec 27, 2008
Mayor evicts Second Chance: Center violated its lease, city says — Albuquerque Journal
Type: Press
Author(s): Dan McKay, Jeff Proctor
Source: Albuquerque Journal
Mayor Martin Chavez on Friday sent a notice to the Second Chance rehabilitation program, ordering it out of the old West Side jail by Jan. 31. The city contends that Second Chance violated its lease agreement by housing violent offenders and making unauthorized changes to the building. C h ave z said he was particularly c onc er ne d that Second Ch a nc e, i n h is v iew, had recently moved some of its residents to "avoid ...
Dec 24, 2008
Keith Henson Appeal: Time to Undo an Injustice — Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF)
Dec 12, 2008
Ninth Circuit court rejects arguments that children's religious school tuition should be tax deductible — MarketWatch
Type: Press
Source: MarketWatch
WASHINGTON – The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit today rejected taxpayers Michael and Marla Sklars’ argument that they were entitled to claim deductions for tuition and fees paid to their children’s Orthodox Jewish day schools, the Justice Department announced. The Sklars sought charitable deductions under section 170 of the Internal Revenue Code for portions of their tuition payments made to the religious day schools their children attended, asserting that those portions of the tuition payments were for “intangible ...
Nov 16, 2008
Cruise church bid to gag Irish book: Amazon removes exposé after Scientologist legal threat — Sunday World (Ireland)
Nov 11, 2008
Amazon UK pulls Scientology exposé for 'legal reasons' — The Register (UK)
Oct 24, 2008
“Battling Scientology” Follow-Up — Boston Phoenix
Type: Blog
Author(s): Chris Faraone
Source: Boston Phoenix
Depending on whom you ask, Massachusetts-based protest organizer Gregg Housh had a major victory — or a significant loss — in Boston Municipal Court this Wednesday. As reported in The Phoenix this past week in the feature “Battling Scientology,” Housh faced charges of harassment, disturbing the peace, and disturbing religious worship for his involvement with the picket group Anonymous and his actions against the Boston Church of Scientology. According to an Anonymous press statement that circulated earlier this afternoon: “On October ...
Oct 23, 2008
Gunzer Scientology DDOS Department of Justice legal documents — Wikileaks
Type: Document
Source: Wikileaks
Oct 22, 2008
Scientology protester’s case continued without a finding — Lawyers Weekly (Boston)
Type: Blog
Author(s): David E. Frank
Source: Lawyers Weekly (Boston)
I have to admit I didn’t see this coming, but a Boston Municipal Court judge has continued without a finding the case against a man accused of disrupting proceedings at the Back Bay Church of Scientology earlier this year. On Oct. 22, Judge Thomas C. Horgan imposed a one-year CWOF against Gregg Housh, who had been charged with disturbing an assembly of worship and disturbing the peace. As part of the plea, Housh was ordered to stay away from the Back ...
Oct 22, 2008
Scientology protester’s case continued without finding — Suffolk County
Type: Press release
Source: Suffolk County
SCIENTOLOGY PROTESTER’S CASE CONTINUED WITHOUT FINDING Oct. 22, 2008 A Boston Municipal Court judge today continued for one year the case against a Woburn man alleged to have disturbed proceedings at the Back Bay Church of Scientology earlier this year, and will dismiss the case if the defendant abides by certain conditions during that time. Judge Thomas C. Horgan imposed a one-year continuance without a finding in the case against GREGG HOUSH (D.O.B. 10/17/76), who had been charged with disturbing an ...
Oct 17, 2008
'Anonymous' Member Unmasked, Charged With Web Attack on Scientology — Wired
Oct 17, 2008
US teen admits to 'Anonymous' DDoS attack on Scientology — The Register (UK)
Oct 15, 2008
Alexander Godelman, Marc Le Shay v. Diskeeper Corporation: Discriminatory discharge
Oct 4, 2008
Gloria Lopez — France 2
Oct 2, 2008
19/20 National: Gloria Lopez (French) — France 3
Type: TV
Source: France 3
Sep 18, 2008
Scientology Facing Murky Future in France — ABC News
More: rickross.com
Sep 8, 2008
Scientologists charged with fraud in France: source — Reuters
Type: Press
Source: Reuters
PARIS (Reuters) - A French judge has ordered two branches of the Church of Scientology and seven of its leaders to stand trial for fraud, a judicial source said on Monday. The case is the latest in a series of legal battles that have pitted the French judicial system against the Scientologists, who are viewed by the authorities as a sect. The latest suit centers on a complaint made in 1998 by a woman who said she was enrolled into the ...
Sep 8, 2008
Scientology 'faces French trial' — BBC News
Type: Press
Source: BBC News
The Church of Scientology in France will be tried in court for "organised fraud", according to legal sources. The lawyer for one of the plaintiffs behind the case told the BBC that if convicted the controversial Church could be banned. The Church has faced stiff opposition in France as well as Germany, where it has been declared unconstitutional. The French branch of the Church of Scientology said it had been cleared of "numerous" similar charges. It said such charges should not ...
Sep 8, 2008
Scientology faces French trial for fraud, prescribing drugs: source — Google News
Type: Press
Source: Google News
PARIS (AFP) - The Church of Scientology is to be tried for fraud, and seven of its members for illegally prescribing drugs, legal sources said Monday, in the latest clash between French officials and the controversial religion. The charges stem from a case taken by a woman who said she paid the church more than 20,000 euros (28,000 dollars) for lessons, books, drugs and an "electrometer," a device which the church says can measure a person's mental state. She allegedly made ...
Aug 27, 2008
Church of Scientology seeks home in Bucks — The Intelligencer (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania)
Type: Press
Author(s): Freda R. Savana
Source: The Intelligencer (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania)
A. Rhodes Wilson is no stranger to Plumstead Township, nor is his property at 5571 Easton Road. For nearly five years, Wilson and his wife, Jana, have been at war with the township over how they can use the single-family dwelling they have never lived in. The couple lives in Buckingham. In the most recent turn of events, the Wilsons are looking for approval to use the building, once home to Rhodes Wilson's accounting business, as the Church of Scientology Mission ...
Aug 13, 2008
Scientology's antagonists — SF Weekly
Type: Press
Author(s): Lauren Smiley
Source: SF Weekly
An ex-Scientologist and an army of online pranksters attempt to bring down the controversial religion. Maybe it's his badass black outfit with blood-red letters screaming "Scientology Kills." Or possibly it's his crew cut, or his nose slammed 45 degrees left after catching one too many right hooks. Maybe it's the hardcore cell-phone earpiece or the camcorder strapped to his palm to record confrontations. Whatever it is, when Tommy Gorman stands at a man's door demanding he get his "chicken-shit ass out ...
Aug 8, 2008
RE: In the matter of Absylom Kwabena Nyamekye, M.D. — State of New York
Aug 4, 2008
Clearwater Sun alum says city desk clerk was a spy for Scientology — St. Petersburg Times (Florida)
Type: Blog
Author(s): Eric Deggans
Source: St. Petersburg Times (Florida)
All acknowledgement to Poynter's Jim Romenesko, whose blog [http://www.poynter.org/column.asp?id=45] alerted me to the Reporter's Notebook Web site [http://www.reportersnotebook.net/article.php3?id_article=57], which contains a compelling collection of memories by alums of the long gone Clearwater Sun newspaper. While I'm not so sure about the contention that a newspaper 25 miles away can't provide comprehensive coverage of a community, it is illuminating and sobering to read about the Sun's glory days. A particular standout is the essay crafted by Mike Pride [http://nenews.org/stories/639.html], a well-regarded, recently-retired ...
Jul 19, 2008
Scientology Group Taken To Court By Apostolic Church Leader — Pacific Magazine
More: pacificmagazine.net
Type: Press
Author(s): Ulamila Wragg
Source: Pacific Magazine
The Cook Islands High Court will hear an application today (Friday local time) for the demolition of a tent set up by the Church of Scientology in the middle of the capital, Avarua. The writ was filed in court by Reverend Alfred Morris, who leads a local Apostolic church in Rarotonga. Last week the Cook Islands government gave the green light to visiting Church of Scientology representatives Mathew Andrews and Winnie Lawrence to put up posters. However, they were advised the ...
Jul 19, 2008
Scientology Official Dismantles Displays To Avoid Court Tussle — Pacific Magazine
More: pacificmagazine.net, rickross.com
Type: Press
Author(s): Ulamila Wragg
Source: Pacific Magazine
A rival church’s petition against the Church of Scientology was dismissed by the Cook Islands High Court this afternoon after Scientology officials removed a display tent that was the focus of the court action. Local church leader Reverend Alfred Morris applied to the court this week for the removal of a display tent erected by the Church of Scientology in the capital Avarua. Morris said that apart from having no approval under the Religious Organisations Restrictions Act 1975, the Scientologists were ...
Jun 20, 2008
Former judge sentence reduced — KRQE
Jun 19, 2008
Watchdog web site draws legal threats from Scientologists, Mormons — FOX News
Type: Press
Author(s): Michael Park
Source: FOX News
Wikileaks.org — a watchdog Web site that leaks corporate and government documents — hasn't officially launched, yet it has already uncovered human-rights violations in China, claimed to have swayed Kenya's Dec. 2007 elections and exposed the inner workings of the U.S. detention camp at Guantanamo Bay. So many were surprised when it recently turned its sights on two lawyer-heavy religious groups: the Mormons and the Scientologists. Founded in December 2006, Wikileaks boasts of an archive of 1.2 million released documents, sent ...
Jun 17, 2008
Scientology protester faces court over 'ambiguous' sign — Evening News (Edinburgh)
Type: Press
Author(s): Alan McEwen
Source: Evening News (Edinburgh)
A PROTESTER has been charged with breach of the peace after carrying an "ambiguous" sign during a rally against the Church of Scientology. The 57-year-old was arrested after taking part in a protest at Hunter Square, near the controversial church's Scottish base on South Bridge. The protest was organised by campaign group Anonymous, which has been fighting for the right to describe the church as a cult. The protester who was arrested was wearing a Mexican wrestler's mask and carrying signs ...
Jun 1, 2008
Scientology Scandals — The Skeptic (Australia)
May 28, 2008
Scientology protest: Liberty challenges police over summons — The Guardian (UK)
Type: Press
Author(s): Anil Dawar
Source: The Guardian (UK)
The police force that issued a teenager with a court summons for calling Scientology a cult could face a judicial review over the legality of its policing guidelines. Although prosecutors last week declined to take the 16-year-old to court, freedom of speech campaigners are to ask City of London police to explain how the initial decision to issue the summons was made. Campaigners said they would call for a judicial review if it is found that the force's guidelines for policing ...
May 26, 2008
The Post editorial board on Britain's censorship of a Scientology protest sign: A defeat for free expression — National Post
Type: Press
Author(s): Marni Soupcoff
Source: National Post
It may be one thing for freedom of expression to be an object of controversy in Canada — which is, after all, a somewhat tenuous experiment in democracy and federalism, one whose final shape and outcome may yet remain to be determined — but it is quite another to see it tormented in Great Britain, the historical anchor of most of the liberties we take for granted. When Britain injures what the rest of regard as British principles, it is a ...
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