March 30, 1990 |
State says two chiropractors illegally fired workers who didn't join Scientology Church |
The Minnesota Department of Human Rights says two Twin Cities chiropractors illegally fired three employees after they refused to join the Church of Scientology. The department also said that the former employees were repeatedly exposed to Scientology materials and teachings at work to the point where it became a condition of their employment. |
Press |
March 23, 1990 |
Mayors sign 'cult' petition; Leaders criticized for adding names to drug campaign |
Gloucester Mayor Harry Allen and Cumberland Mayor Brian Coburn are among "hundreds" of local opinion leaders who have signed an anti-drug petition sponsored by the Church of Scientology. Two years ago, the church offered "millions of dollars" to help drug addicts, the poor and the elderly if the Ontario government would drop criminal charges arising from a 1983 raid on the organization's downtown Toronto headquarters. The government refused. The church and 15 of its members were charged with the theft of photocopied government documents detailing church activities. |
front groups, Ottawa, Press |
January 21, 1990 |
Akron Beacon Journal: A Tale of Capture and Brainwashing |
A Medina dentist, Geary said he also nearly lost his 5-year-old practice,
and his wife wound up requiring hospitalization after allegedly being held
captive for more than two weeks by Scientologists in California. |
false imprisonment, Press, San Francisco, CA |
January 20, 1990 |
IRS Is Seeking Church's Records |
The Internal Revenue Service is seeking scores of internal documents from the Church of Scientology in Clearwater to determine whether the organization has violated its tax-exempt status. The IRS has sent a summons to the Scientologists asking for internal documents such as bank statements, minutes of Scientology board meetings, organizational charts and job descriptions. The documents could show whether the organization is involved in commercial enterprises for profit. |
IRS, Press |
January 13, 1990 |
Captivity Case May be Tied to Faith |
Pomona police said they are investigating whether beliefs espoused by the Church of Scientology led a family to confine a mentally disabled woman in a cell-like bedroom at a Phillips Ranch house. While stressing that neither the church nor its beliefs are under investigation, police said they want to know if Scientology practices could explain why the woman was kept in confinement. |
crimes, Los Angeles, Press, teachings and beliefs |
October 27, 1989 |
Court Rejects Challenges to Award in Scientology Case Lawsuit |
The state Supreme Court rejected challenges to a ruling that dramatically reduced a jury award of $30 million against the Church of Scientology for coercive practices that drove a former member to the edge of insanity and bankruptcy. |
Larry Wollersheim, lawsuits, Press |
October 26, 1989 |
Board of Contributors: The Judges of History Rule |
Verbatim quotation, the judge believed, was justified in order to prove points the author had asserted about Mr. Hubbard -- mendacity, bigotry, paranoia and other unlovely traits that could not be persuasively demonstrated without use of Mr. Hubbard's own words. "The biographer/critic," Judge Leval wrote, "should not be required simply to express . . . conclusions without defending them by example." In such circumstances, free-speech interests outweighed the interests of the copyright owner. |
L. Ron Hubbard, lawsuits, Press |
October 19, 1989 |
Second Fire At Hotel Is Called Suspicious |
Six months after evacuating 108 people from the Gray Moss Inn because of an arson fire, Clearwater firefighters returned to the hotel Wednesday evening to douse another suspicious fire. The hotel at 215 S Fort Harrison Ave. is up for sale for $1.5-million, real estate agents said last month. The owners live in California. It sits right across the street from the Fort Harrison Hotel, the international spiritual headquarters for the Church of Scientology. |
Clearwater, Press |
October 9, 1989 |
Scientologists Harm Business, Merchants Say |
The Church of Scientology has had a strong presence in downtown Clearwater since it secretly bought the old Fort Harrison Hotel at 210 N Fort Harrison Ave. in 1975, shocking city residents. Members say Scientology is a religion, and say they help the city. Opponents call it a cult and a money-making organization. The Scientologists attempted to frame former Mayor Gabe Cazares with a hit-and-run accident in 1976 and have stirred controversy off and on since their arrival. |
Clearwater, Press, Scientology and Society |
April 21, 1989 |
Scientologists Lose Privacy Appeal |
Scientology lost another round in a long-running legal effort to keep religious confessions out of the hands of police and prosecutors. The issue arose when Ontario Provincial Police, acting on warrants alleging possible tax fraud, raided the Toronto premises of the church and the home of one member in 1983, seizing more than 850 boxes of material including files, books, correspondence and other documents. |
crimes, lawsuits, Press, Toronto |