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17 Jan 2008, 6:44 am
Copyright infringement claims have a longstanding role in the efforts of Scientology to avoid the ridicule that follows once elements of their beliefs are made public, and Gawker has decided to go for broke in the face of a spate of recent releases of Tom Cruise videos online: Tom Cruise: Church of Scientology Claims Copyright Infringement [I]t’s hardly surprising that the Scientologists’ lawyers would at least threaten a huge lawsuit against the… [read post]
22 Jun 2009, 2:45 am
One of the enduring tax mysteries is the 26-year battle between the Church of Scientology and the IRS (documented here), culminating in a 1993 settlement (during Fred Goldberg's stint as Commissioner) in which the IRS agreed to grant tax exempt status to the church (Rev. [read post]
22 Nov 2008, 6:29 pm
The AP reports that Germany's Interior Minister Wolfgang Schaeuble, as well as domestic intelligence authorities from Germany's 16 states, agreed Friday that they had insufficient evidence to open formal proceedings to ban the Church of Scientology. [read post]
11 May 2009, 4:42 pm
Anonymous members formally declared war on the Church of Scientology in January 2008 after the secretive religious group tried to suppress a creepy Tom Cruise video produced for Scientology members. [read post]
4 May 2011, 4:15 am
AP reported yesterday that Russia's Justice Ministry has lifted a ban on 29 books and lectures by Church of Scientology founder L. [read post]
25 Jul 2012, 6:54 am
" Terry Baynes of Reuters reports that "Church of Scientology defeats human trafficking claims. [read post]
8 Dec 2007, 4:40 am
[JURIST] German Interior Minister Wolfgang Schäuble and his 16 regional counterparts have consider Scientology [church website] "an organization that is not compatible with the constitution", and will work to ban it in Germany, Schäuble said at the end of a two-day ministerial meeting Friday. [read post]
13 Feb 2008, 5:30 am
In Germany, the North Rhine-Westphalia Higher Administrative Court has upheld a lower court ruling permitting German intelligence agencies to monitor activities of two Church of Scientology organizations. [read post]
25 Jan 2022, 2:37 pm
Church of Scientology International are certainly disturbing. [read post]
17 Oct 2008, 11:17 pm
District Court in Los Angeles, marks the first prosecution of an Anonymous member for a series of attacks against the Church of Scientology that began in mid-January. [read post]
26 Jul 2010, 4:20 am
Today's Moscow Times reports that prosecutors in the Russian town of Shchyolkovo, northeast of Moscow, have opened a criminal prosecution against the Church of Scientology on the grounds that it is promoting extremism. [read post]
18 Apr 2012, 12:27 pm
(the Church of Scientology is not, in any way, affiliated with the Christian Science Church). [read post]
5 Dec 2007, 12:22 am
Spiegel Online and AHN both cover these developments.UPDATE: According to BBC News on Saturday, federal and state interior ministers have asked Germany's domestic intelligence agency to determine whether the Church of Scientology's legal status as an association can be challenged. [read post]
20 Dec 2012, 4:05 am
Without such registration, marriages cannot be solemnized in the chapel to the dismay of plaintiff, a 23-year old Scientologist who wants to marry her fiance in Scientology's London Church Chapel. [read post]
4 Sep 2007, 10:00 am
In Belgium, investigating prosecutor Jean-Claude Van Espen has recommended that 12 people connected with the Church of Scientology be indicted on charges of fraud and extortion. [read post]
6 Apr 2015, 10:00 am
The Wrap, HBO’s ‘Going Clear’ Triggers New Scrutiny of Scientology’s Tax-Exempt Status: HBO’s Sunday airing of documentary film “Going Clear” has reignited interest in the tax-exempt status afforded the Church of Scientology by its classification as a nonprofit. [read post]
6 May 2015, 4:10 am
Yesterday's Santa Cruz Sentinel reports on a lawsuit filed last month in a California federal district court against Narconon drug rehabilitation centers (and related entities) alleging that they falsely represent their success rate and are used to recruit people into the Church of Scientology. [read post]
27 Oct 2015, 4:00 am
In the Netherlands last Wednesday, a Dutch appellate court held that the Church of Scientology has not carried the burden of showing that it qualifies as a tax exempt public benefit organization. [read post]
29 Apr 2012, 10:57 am
Republished by Blog Post PromoterScientology seems to do a lot better with the Internal Revenue Code than with the Copyright Act: A Colorado nonprofit group 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.The church, through its nonprofit subsidiary Bridge Publications, is suing Boulder-based FACTNet on charges… [read post]
10 Aug 2017, 5:05 am
Gary Baum (Hollywood Reporter), who has written a lot about Scientology, has the story: Someone appears to be trying to scrub warnings about the church’s controversial Narconon program from the internet. [read post]
