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[Danny Masterson and his attorney Tom Mesereau]
UPDATE: Judge Eleanor Hunter arraigned Danny Masterson today and set a schedule that suggests an early November trial date. Next court hearing is August 9, when Masterson will argue a motion to dismiss the case on lack of evidence. Our updates from court below.
Once again we’re on the scene […]
[Mesereau, Miscavige, Masterson, and Podberesky]
With another set of hearings coming up for Danny Masterson in both his civil and criminal cases this Monday, we have been thinking about the dramatic four days we spent in Los Angeles at his last courtroom […]
[Stuck in a leaky boat together: Danny Masterson and David Miscavige]
Our loyal readers know what a daily slog it’s been for the last nine years at this website as we’ve covered Scientology as a daily news beat. You’ve been with us as remarkable stories about the church and its controversies have produced winners and losers, […]
[The California Supremes]
The California Supreme Court has granted the petition for review submitted by Danny Masterson’s accusers after their lawsuit was derailed by a decision by Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Steven […]
Valerie Haney, the former Sea Org worker who says she escaped from a Scientology compound by hiding in the trunk of a car, has petitioned the US Supreme Court over the ruling that derailed her lawsuit against the church, denying her right to trial and telling her to take her complaint to Scientology’s internal ‘religious […]
[Jay and Jeff Spina with a Scientology award]
We got home yesterday from our fun time in Los Angeles last week covering Danny Masterson’s preliminary hearing, and we thought we’d catch up on other Scientology legal matters that have been going on since we were […]
[Attorneys Sharon Appelbaum and Tom Mesereau with Danny Masterson during his Sept 18 appearance]
We asked Chris Shelton to look at the Scientology highlights we pulled out of Danny Masterson’s preliminary hearing. We wondered how these concepts being raised in a criminal rape proceeding might look to someone who was actually a former Sea Org official. […]
[Masterson after the ruling, from video by Bunker reader Melissa J. Bratten]
Well, that was some week and we want to thank all of our loyal readers for going through it with us. The comments section has really been a rollicking good time while we were reporting from Los Angeles for the Danny Masterson preliminary […]
[Mueller vs. Mesereau]
Well, it all comes down to this. We’re beginning a little later today, 10:30 am, but the testimony and cross-examining is finished, and now we’ll get to see Deputy DA Reinhold Mueller and defense attorney Tom Mesereau give their closing […]
[Yesterday’s strange moment: Mesereau brings Hubbard in!]
We were struck by a comment made after yesterday’s session by our friend TX Lawyer. He pointed out that it is the job of Danny Masterson’s defense attorney Tom Mesereau not only to push the witnesses but also the […]
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