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Nov 23, 1985
Scientologists win major court victory over defectors, documents — Los Angeles Times (California)More: link
Type: Press
Author(s):
Robert W. Welkos ,
Joel Sappell Source:
Los Angeles Times (California) In a major victory for the Church of Scientology, a federal judge said Friday she will bar breakaway Scientology groups from using confidential church teachings that appear to have been stolen. U.S. District Judge Mariana R. Pfaelzer said she will issue a preliminary injunction until a trial can be held on a lawsuit brought by the Church of Scientology against defectors who have established rival churches and counseling centers. The Church of Scientology contends the teachings are protected by federal trade ...
Nov 15, 1985
Appeals court skirts decision on city's sect law — Clearwater Sun (Florida)More: link
Type: Press
Author(s):
Lesley Collins Source:
Clearwater Sun (Florida) CLEARWATER — A federal appeals court ruling doesn't say a word about the constitutionality of a city ordinance regulating charitable solicitations, basically sending it back to a lower court. The opinion issued Wednesday by the 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals states there hasn't been enough legal record developed by the U.S. District Court in Tampa to warrant a decision on the law's constitutional merits. "It's an interesting opinion because it doesn't decide anything," Scientology attorney Eric Lieberman said Thursday. "Basically ...
Nov 6, 1985
Court documents revealed despite Scientology protest — Clearwater Sun (Florida)More: link
Type: Press
Author(s):
Richard Benke Source:
Clearwater Sun (Florida) LOS ANGELES — The Church of Scientology secretly teaches that 75 million years ago Earth was called Teegeeach and was among 90 planets ruled by Xemu, who spread his evil by thermonuclear bombs, according to court documents that sect members tried to prevent the public from seeing. Xemu, attempting to solve overpopulation problems, destroyed selected inhabitants of the planets and implanted the seeds of aberrant behavior in their spirits to affect future generations of mankind, according to the documents briefly placed ...
Nov 5, 1985
Scientologists block access to secret documents // 1,500 crowd into courthouse to protect materials on fundamental beliefs — Los Angeles Times (California)More: link
Type: Press
Author(s):
Joel Sappell ,
Robert W. Welkos Source:
Los Angeles Times (California) In one of the largest court demonstrations in Los Angeles in years, about 1,500 Church of Scientology members crammed three floors of the County Courthouse on Monday, effectively blocking public access to documents that the church considers secret and sacred. For hours, Scientologists swamped workers in the clerk's office with hundreds of requests to photocopy the documents, which reveal some of the organization's most fundamental beliefs. Scientology attorneys have argued that disclosure of the materials is a violation of the group's ...
Nov 4, 1985
[...Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Alfred L. Margolis has removed himself...] — Los Angeles Times (California)More: link
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Los Angeles Times (California) Citing a scheduling conflict in January, Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Alfred L. Margolis has removed himself from the trial of former Church of Scientology member Larry Wollersheim, who is suing the church for fraud. The judge's announcement came during the third week of pretrial motions. Margolis said he would decide the motions under submission, but asked attorneys for both sides to return for selection of a new judge. Church attorneys had told Margolis they expected the trial to last a ...
Aug 6, 1985
City, sect clash in federal appeals court — Clearwater Sun (Florida)
Jul 17, 1985
Church doesn't win legal fees court says Scientologists can't collect from Clearwater mayor — Orlando Sentinel
Type: Press
Author(s):
Al Truesdell Source:
Orlando Sentinel DAYTONA BEACH — The Church of Scientology is not entitled to collect legal fees of $740,000 from the former mayor of Clearwater and his wife who filed and later dropped a lawsuit against the organization, an appeal court ruled Tuesday. Ruling without comment, the 5th District Court of Appeal upheld a lower court decision in the case involving Gabriel and Margaret Cazares. Volusia Circuit Judge Robert Miller said last August the church had failed to prove that the $1.5 million lawsuit ...
Jul 2, 1985
State high court stays Scientology lawsuit — Los Angeles Times (California)
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Los Angeles Times (California) SAN FRANCISCO — The California Supreme Court today granted a stay requested by the Church of Scientology in a lawsuit by a former church member. Justice Allen E. Broussard granted the stay, which will remain in effect until the court can hear church arguments that religious beliefs cannot be tried. Lawyers for the church, accompanied to San Francisco by hundreds of demonstrators, on Monday asked the state Supreme Court to block the Los Angeles trial.
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