Scientology Moves to Dismiss Garcia Fraud Lawsuit On a Question of Jurisdiction - 2013-10-25

Scientology Moves to Dismiss Garcia Fraud Lawsuit On a Question of Jurisdiction October 25, 2013, Tony Ortega, Underground Bunker

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Could Luis Garcia's lawsuit be in trouble? Yesterday, the Church of Scientology was required by Judge James Whittemore to come up with a 5-page description of its internal arbitration system as the latest step in the federal fraud lawsuit brought against the church by Luis and Rocio Garcia.

But on Monday, the church filed a surprising new motion in the case, asking the lawsuit to be dismissed because a Florida federal courtroom is not the proper venue for it.

Almost eleven months after the lawsuit was first filed in Tampa, Scientology is saying that it just recently got around to noticing that three of the individual church entities which are being sued are based in California, where the Garcias live, and therefore those three entities should be dismissed from the case — they should never have been sued in a Florida federal court.

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{{cite news | author = Tony Ortega | title = Scientology Moves to Dismiss Garcia Fraud Lawsuit On a Question of Jurisdiction | url = https://tonyortega.org/2013/10/25/scientology-moves-to-dismiss-garcia-fraud-lawsuit-based-on-jurisdiction/ | work = Underground Bunker | date = October 25, 2013 | accessdate = August 21, 2017 }}