Scientology Lies

Judge Louis Oberdorfer recuses himself from the US Snow White case. In light of Judge Hart's recent experience (Scientology had made him a victim of their dirty tricks campaigns, and then argued that that made him biased!), Oberdorfer asked for memoranda and oral arguments from both sides at the outset of the trial indicating potential grounds for disqualification. Government lawyers pointed out in their memo that Oberdorfer was formerly an assistant attorney general in charge of the tax division of the Justice Department, which had prosecuted a case that ended the tax-exempt status for the founding Church of Scientology in Los Angeles in 1969. Oberdorfer concluded that he had "personal knowledge of disputed evidentiary facts" and stepped down.