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Mar 7, 1994
Declaration of Vicki Aznaran [pre-settlement]
Type: Declaration
GRAHAM E. BERRY, State Bar No. 128503 GORDON J. CALHOUN, State Bar No. 84509 LEWIS, D'AMATO, BRISBOIS & BISGAARD 221 N. Figueroa Street, Suite 1200 Los Angeles, California 90012 Telephone: (213) 250-1800 Attorneys for Defendants UWE GEERTZ, PH.D. UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT CENTRAL DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA No. CV 91-6426 HLH (Tx) DECLARATION OF VICKI AZNARAN RE: MOTION FOR COSTS Date: APRIL 4, 1994 Time: 10:00 a.m. Courtroom: 7 CHURCH OF SCIENTOLOGY INTERNATIONAL, Plaintiff, VS. STEVEN FISHMAN and UWE GEERTZ, Defendants. —– ...
May 30, 1985
Scientology on trial — Willamette WeekMore: link
Type: Press
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 ...
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May 26, 1985
The selling of Scientology // Hubbard's motivations revealed in correspondence — The Oregonian (Portland)More: link
Type: Press
Author(s):
Fred Leeson Source:
The Oregonian (Portland) Three years after publishing a best-selling book in 1950 about his theories for improving mental health, L. Ron Hubbard, 42, was living in Spain and worrying about money. An idea struck him. Why not present Scientology as a religion, he suggested in a letter written to Helen O'Brien, then the head of an organization for marketing his mental health concepts known as the Hubbard Association of Scientologists. This was the formative stage of the Church of Scientology. Over the next 30 ...
Apr 26, 1985
Judge said targeted by church — The Oregonian (Portland)More: link
Type: Press
Author(s):
Fred Leeson Source:
The Oregonian (Portland) 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 20, 1985
Hubbard removed as a defendant — Clearwater Sun (Florida)More: link
Type: Press
Source:
Clearwater Sun (Florida) From Sun reports A judge in Los Angeles Friday removed Church of Scientology founder L. Ron Hubbard as a defendant in a $25 million suit by a former member who claims church promises that its methods Improve mental health are a fraud. Superior Court Judge Norman Epstein said he dropped Hubbard from the suit because the plaintiff's attorneys were unable to find him for three years to serve him with official notice of the legal action. The suit continues against the ...
Apr 19, 1985
Witness says judge probed — The Oregonian (Portland)More: link
Type: Press
Author(s):
Fred Leeson Source:
The Oregonian (Portland) 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 ...
Dec 28, 1984
Julie Christofferson Titchbourne vs. Church of Scientology Mission of Davis; Church of Scientology of California; and L. Ron Hubbard: Eleventh amended and supplemental complaint for fraud
Dec 20, 1984
Lawyer: Rulings will help expose sect — Clearwater Sun (Florida)
Jun 26, 1984
Litigation keeps sect on defense — Clearwater Sun (Florida)More: link
Type: Press
Author(s):
George-Wayne Shelor Source:
Clearwater Sun (Florida) The Church of Scientology faces mounting legal pressure in courts worldwide to explain its actions, policies, beliefs and inner workings. In the United States, Canada and Europe, Scientology is under ever-increasing scrutiny by law enforcement agencies, courts and even governments. And a ruling handed down last week by it Los Angeles Superior Court judge may complicate the legal proceedings involving the Clearwater-based sect. Judge Paul G. Breckenridge stated in an intended ruling Thursday that Scientology founder L. Ron Hubbard is the ...
May 7, 1984
Capital disciple's story // How Martin Samuels built $10 million mission — Sacramento Bee (California)More: link
Type: Press
Author(s):
Dale Maharidge Source:
Sacramento Bee (California) With $175 and a small box of books under his arm, Martin Samuels brought Scientology to the Sacramento area in the 1960s. He soon built a $10 million empire. The church rated his missions in Davis and Sacramento the best in the world. Then, in 1982, it all collapsed. Samuels left the church with nothing more than a suitcase half full of clothes. Samuels charges in a lawsuit that the Church illegally took it all away from him. The suit, being ...
May 4, 1982
Court overturns Scientology judgment — St. Petersburg Times (Florida)More: news.google.com , link
Type: Press
Source:
St. Petersburg Times (Florida) SALEM, Ore. — The Oregon Court of Appeals on Monday overturned a jury's finding that the Church of Scientology had committed fraud against a former member and intentionally caused her emotional distress. The court nevertheless ruled that Martin Samuels, a Portland minister of the church, and the church's mission in Oregon should be retried on the fraud count. However, the jury will be allowed to look at only those claims made against the church that were of a secular nature, the ...
May 3, 1982
Scientologists win appeal — Oregon JournalMore: link
Type: Press
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Oregon Journal SALEM (UPI) — The Oregon Court of Appeals said Monday the Church of Scientology is innocent of "outrageous conduct" in a case involving a Portland woman awarded $2 million by a Multnomah County Circuit Court jury. The appeals court also said there was no evidence the church and the Delphian Foundation, a non-profit school, engaged in fraud, as alleged by Julie Christofferson. The court also reversed but sent back for a new trial allegations of fraud leveled against the church's Mission ...
Sep 19, 1979
Scientology secrets revealed in 2 million dollar consumer fraud case // Scientology on trial — Bay Guardian (San Francisco)More: link
Type: Press
Author(s):
Richard H. Meeker Source:
Bay Guardian (San Francisco) How a Portland jury got a crash course in one of the oddest "religions" ever created and awarded the plaintiff more than $2. million Note: This summer, a jury in Portland spent a month listening to testimony in a $4 million lawsuit over the practices of the Church of Scientology there. The plaintiff: Julie Christofferson, a young Portland woman who was a follower of Scientology in 1975 and 1976. The defendants: three local Scientology organizations and one of their leaders. ''Richard ...
Aug 17, 1979
Church of Scientology must pay woman $2 million — Detroit Free PressMore: link
Type: Press
Source:
Detroit Free Press PORTLAND, Ore. (UPI) — A 22-year-old woman whose attorney claimed she "lived through an Orwellian horror story" as a Church of Scientology member was awarded more than $2 million in court Wednesday. Julie Christopherson Titchbourne charged in her suit that the church engaged in unlawful trade practices, fraud and outrageous conduct, damaging her psychologically. A jury of seven women and five men deliberated 18 hours before awarding her $3,000 as compensation for the cost of Scientology courses she took and $150,000 ...
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