While we wait for the major showdown over “religious arbitration” on Dec 18, there’s another update in the lawsuit against Danny Masterson and Scientology which we know you’re going to want to hear about.
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The California state supreme court has turned down Valerie Haney’s request to review a lower court’s ruling, and so she’s once again back where she started: She faces going through Scientology “religious arbitration” before she can appeal the order that denied her the right to a trial in her lawsuit against the church and its leader, David Miscavige. Continue reading VALERIE HANEY DENIED AGAIN: State supreme court won’t hear case
As we near the December 18 showdown over Scientology “religious arbitration” in Los Angeles Superior Court, Danny Masterson’s accusers have now responded to the extraordinary briefing going on, and their argument is a powerful one: Scientology should not get to count its illegal harassment and stalking of former members as legitimate “commerce” in order to deny them the right to trial.
Longtime reader Ron Kasman, a Canadian comic book artist, sent in this account of how he first fell into Scientology, a half century ago. We thought you’d like to see it, and we’d also like to hear some accounts of others and how they were first attracted to L. Ron Hubbard’s “applied philosophy.”
Our thanks again to the source who gives us a glimpse into what Scientologists are sharing with each other on social media. This week, the usual miracles continue to salvage this planet, and Scientologists, like everyone else, are gearing up for the holiday season. Continue reading Scientology social media: Gearing up for R6, or what you humans call ‘Christmas’
Continue reading Twenty-five years ago today: The final hours of Lisa McPherson’s Scientology life
Los Angeles County Superior Court Judge Steven Kleifield shocked us last month when he vacated a hearing in the lawsuit between Danny Masterson’s rape accusers and the That ’70s Show actor and the Church of Scientology. Kleifield wiped out the hearing and then asked Scientology’s attorneys to submit a new argument for its motion to force the plaintiffs into “religious arbitration.” Continue reading WHOA! Scientology to Judge Kleifield: Wrecking human lives IS our ‘commerce’
This summer when the Trump Administration first released limited information about which businesses had received Covid bailout loans, we reported that among them were three Scientology churches — the New York and DC ‘Ideal Orgs,’ and the Belleair, Florida mission — as well as two Narconon drug rehab entities and Scientology’s nuttiest front group, Citizens Commission on Human Rights. We also pointed out that four Scientology-affiliated schools received PPP loans, including Scientology’s “Hogwarts,” its premier boarding school in Oregon. |
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