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• Church of Scientology International v. Fishman and Geertz

  http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~dst/Fishman/
  A selection of publicly-available legal documents filed in U.S. District Court, Central District of California.

• Church Pays Those it Reviled

  http://www.sptimes.com/News/031101/NorthPinellas/Church_pays_those_it_.shtml
  Circuit court judge says that the Clearwater police "are coming very dangerously close to becoming a private security force for the Church of Scientology." Scientology spokesman paints all critics as criminals. [St. Petersburg Times]

• Concerns Over Church of Scientology

  http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/despatches/europe/23966.stm
  A federal court in Germany has failed to reach a verdict on the legal status of Scientology -- after years of international debate. [BBC News].

• Critics Public and Private Keep Pressure on Scientology

  http://www.sptimes.com/News/32999/Worldandnation/Abroad__Critics_publi.html
  Scientology leaders say they want peace. They say they want to stay out of court. But with both foes at home and foes abroad, that goal may be elusive. [St. Petersburg Times]

• Fishman Affidavit

  http://www.peghole.com/mare/fishman2/fishman.html
  A copy of the declaration filed by Steven Fishman in Church of Scientology International v. Fishman and Geertz. OT2 and 3 are bowdlerized to comply with Dutch law.

• France Urged to Ban Scientology

  http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/635986.stm
  A French government committee recommends dissolving the Church of Scientology on the grounds that its activities threaten public order. [BBC News]

• French Court Finds Church of Scientology Guilty of Breaching Privacy Laws

  http://www.voanews.com/a/a-13-a-2002-05-17-8-french-66282637/540758.html
  A French court fined the Church of Scientology for violating the privacy rights of former members, although prosecutors failed to convict on other charges. [Voice of America News]

• French Scientologists Guilty of Fraud

  http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/521345.stm
  Marseilles court has convicted five members of the Church of Scientology of fraud for extorting large payments from vulnerable members for dubious cures. [BBC News]

• French Scientology Trial

  http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/455059.stm
  A French prosecutor has asked a court in Marseille to jail a former leader of the Church of Scientology who has been accused of obtaining large sums of money by fraud from other members of the Church. [BBC News]

• French Scientology Trial Ends

  http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/455759.stm
  The trial has ended in the French city of Marseille of seven members of the Church of Scientology accused of fraud. [BBC News]

• German-US Scientology Row

  http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/20185.stm
  Germany and the United States are to discuss their disagreements over the Church of Scientology. [BBC News]

• Germany Can't Decide if Scientology is a Religion

  http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/23555.stm
  A federal court in Germany has failed to reach a verdict on whether or not Scientology can be considered a religion. [BBC News]

• Germany: Religious Dispute

  http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/17791.stm
  A German federal court has been hearing a case which could decide if restrictions on the Church of Scientology in Germany are legal. [BBC News]

• Hana Whitfield

  http://www.religio.de/therapie/sc/hana.html
  Affidavit of Hana Whitfield. The story of an ex member.

• Maureen E. Garde

  http://home.snafu.de/tilman/mgarde/
  Archival collection of judicial rulings, court pleadings and other legal documentation from Scientology-related litigation, between 1995 and 1997.

• Police Work for Scientology

  http://www.sptimes.com/News/032201/Opinion/Police_work_for_Scien.shtml
  Editorial says that it is unlikely that off-duty uniformed Clearwater police officers paid by the Church of Scientology could remain objective when incidents occur between the church and protesters. [St. Petersburg Times]

• Scientologists Face Paris Ban

  http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/1836812.stm
  Public prosecutor accuses the Church of Scientology with "mental manipulation." The sect is on trial for false advertising and attempted fraud. [BBC News]

• Scientology Critic Won't Face Retrial

  http://www.sptimes.com/News/052601/TampaBay/Scientology_critic_wo.shtml
  Trial of a critic of Scientology on a misdemeanor charge ends in a hung jury due to worries that he was set up by the Church of Scientology. The prosecutors then dropped the charges. [St. Petersburg Times]

• Scientology Faces French Ban

  http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/443271.stm
  The French Justice Minister says she is prepared to consider banning the Church of Scientology, considered a cult--not a religion--in France. [BBC News]

• Scientology loses copyright round

  http://news.cnet.com/2100-1023-217696.html
  Colorado nonprofit group FACTNet has won a critical round in a legal fight against the Church of Scientology, raising questions about whether Scientology has a legal right to keep hundreds of documents offline and out of the public eye. [CNET News.com]

• Scientology Told to Release Notes on Late Member

  http://www.sptimes.com/News/31699/TampaBay/Scientology_told_to_r.html
  A judge gives the church a delay so it can fight for the privacy of a practice it compares to confession. [St. Petersburg Times]

• Scientology Trial Opens in France

  http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/452734.stm
  Seven members of the Church of Scientology have gone on trial in France on charges of fraud. [BBC News]

• Scientology vs. Panoussis Ruling

  http://slashdot.org/yro/01/03/09/1425236.shtml
  Readers discuss the verdict of the Swedish High Court, which upheld a lower court's ruling that Zenon Panoussis had infringed Scientology's copyright. Includes comments from Arnie Lerma and Karin Spaink. [Slashdot]

• State Takes Middle Road Against Scientology

  http://www.sptimes.com/TampaBay/112398/State_takes_middle_ro.html
  Colleagues of State Attorney Bernie McCabe say charging the church, not the members, and deciding against a manslaughter charge walks the line between acting too harshly and too weakly. [St. Petersburg Times]

• Supreme Court refuses to review Church of Scientology libel case

  http://www.beliefnet.com/faiths/scientology/supreme-court-declines-to-review-libel-case-from-church-of-scientology.aspx
  Ten years after Time magazine ran an award-winning article portraying the Church of Scientology as a "ruthless global scam," the Supreme Court refused to consider reinstating the church's libel case. [Associated Press]

• The Scandal of Scientology

  http://www.paulettecooper.com/scandal1.htm
  From Paulette Cooper, author of a book critical of Scientology, who was falsely accused in 19 lawsuits.

 

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