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Today at the Daily Beast: What Valerie Haney’s Scientology ‘arbitration’ was really like

 Over at The Daily Beast, we have a story today with one of the closest looks at what Scientology is putting Valerie Haney through as she experienced three days of the church’s “religious arbitration” in Los []

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New court leak: Scientology lied that Leah Remini had ‘blood on her hands’ in knife slay

As Leah Remini’s Emmy-winning A&E network series Scientology and the Aftermath neared the end of its three-season run in 2019, it was a refrain we were beginning to hear constantly from the Church of Scientology itself: Leah Remini had blood on her []

Leah Remini spells out Scientology’s abuses in stunning new court declaration

 We’re still going through the more than 700 pages of new court documents that Leah Remini and her legal team submitted to the court Friday in response to Scientology’s attempt to gut her lawsuit against her former []

Mike Rinder exposes Scientology ‘Fair Game’ for Leah Remini’s lawsuit

 Yesterday we told you that Leah Remini had fired back at Scientology’s attempt to gut her lawsuit with a motion to strike and []

Leah Remini fires back at Scientology’s attempt to gut her lawsuit

 At the end of October, we told you that Scientology had responded to Leah Remini’s ‘Fair Game’ lawsuit with a barrage of accusations against her and more than 1,000 pages of exhibits, arguing that the church was only hitting back at Remini after she had started attacking them []

After Jane Does make calm legal response, Scientology attorneys are angry — real angry

[Scientology’s lawyers, William Forman and Matthew Hinks]

We told you a week ago that what really struck us about the court filing made on behalf of Danny Masterson’s victims regarding the Church of Scientology’s attempt to gut their lawsuit was how calm and logical it appeared, in distinct contrast to the way Scientology’s court briefs tend []

Leah Remini and Scientology agree to slow down her lawsuit a little after heated exchanges

[Leah Remini and Scientology leader David Miscavige]

We’ve been telling you about the way that Scientology attacked Leah Remini’s lawsuit, with a massive motion to strike and anti-SLAPP in an attempt to cripple the suit before it really gets going. We’ve been looking forward to Leah’s reply, but it turns out we’re going to have to []

Danny Masterson’s victims strike back at Scientology’s attempt to gut their lawsuit

[Attorney John Kucera and Danny Masterson]

 We have a couple of legal developments for you this morning. First, in the Bixler lawsuit, the plaintiffs have answered Scientology’s motion to []

Jane Doe 1 asks for emergency hearing and Scientology is not happy about it

[Jane Doe 1’s attorney Graham Berry and Scientology’s William Forman]

Although Jane Doe 1’s forced-marriage lawsuit was put on hold last month while Scientology tries to derail it into “religious arbitration,” her legal team has asked the court for an emergency hearing to grant them the right to conduct “limited discovery” in the []

David Miscavige says Leah Remini hasn’t served him (but Dave’s not here and you don’t see him)

 Jeffrey Riffer is back! Scientology leader David Miscavige’s personal attorney has once again made the scene, and he’s doing his best to keep Dave out of the lawsuits filed by Leah Remini and Jane Doe []