Scientology lawsuits

Work in progress

The purpose of the suit is to harass and discourage rather than to win. The law can be used very easily to harass, and enough harassment on somebody who is simply on the thin edge anyway, well knowing that he is not authorized, will generally be sufficient to cause his professional decease. If possible, of course, ruin him utterly. - L. Ron Hubbard, A MANUAL ON THE DISSEMINATION OF MATERIAL, 1955.

Can the Road Map to Salvation be Copyrighted? That seems to be a common legal strategy for the Church of Scientology. But it doesn't always work in their favor.

Project information

• Scientology lawsuits project overview
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Scientology litigation indexes

NOTES: These indexes includes only federal lawsuits due to the nature of the data available from PACER. Appellate courts are not fully supported in the RECAP archive. IRS tax exemption issues, Swarz, Slatkin, Letterese/Perlman, Elliot and Mukamal/Creative Desperation lawsuits have been intentionally excluded from these case listings due to blackhole asshattery. Bad Data flags indicate the exported case records outside of PACER are faulty or incomplete.

• Scientology federal case index - United States appellate courts
• Scientology federal case index - United States bankruptcy courts
• Scientology federal case index - United States district courts
• Scientology federal lawsuits - master index document

References

The following websites served as the primary data mining resources for compiling the index pages listed above.

US Supreme Court sources

• RTC docket search - Supreme Court of the United States, US government.
• Scientology docket search - Supreme Court of the United States, US government.

US federal court sources

• The RECAP Archive, Center for Information Technology Policy at Princeton University.
• RECAP US Federal Court Documents, Internet Archive.
• PACER Case Locator - Search, US government.
• Department of Justice Archives - Office of Information Policy FOIA Annual Reports, US government.

Other legal archives

• Scientology Lawsuits Claire & Marc Headley Scribd Collection, AnonLover, Blownforgood, et al.
• Scientology Lawsuits Laura DeCrescenzo Scribd Collection, AnonLover, Tony Ortega et al.
• Scientology Lawsuits Kyle Brennan Scribd Collection, AnonLover and Tony Ortega.
• Gerry Armstrong's Legal Archive, Gerry Armstrong.
• Other Scientology Litigation Legal Archive, Gerry Armstrong.
• Michael Flynn's Scientology Litigation, Gerry Armstrong.
• Other Sworn Testimony Legal Archive, Gerry Armstrong.
• XenuTV Court Cases, Mark Bunker.
• Commentary - Legal Actions involving the Church of Scientology, Tilman Hausherr.
• Casetext Search for Scientology, J2H2, Inc.
• Casetext Search for Religious Technology, J2H2, Inc.
• Casetext Search for Bridge Publications, J2H2, Inc.
• Lawsuits that Scientology has been involved in (IRS 1023 Annotated Excerpt), Jeff Jacobsen.
• Search Decisions on Leagle, Leagle, Inc.
• Lermanet Legal Pages, Arnaldo P. Lerma.
• LMT International Legal Section, Lisa McPherson Trust.
• Narconon of Georgia Class Action Scribd Collection, Tony Ortega.
• Scientology lawsuits EEOC v. Dynamic Medical Services Scribd Collection, Tony Ortega and AnonLover.
• Religious Technology Center Category, Wikisource online library.
• Scientology and the legal system Category, Wikisource online library.

See also

• Main Page

External links

The following websites served as secondary information resources for compiling the index pages listed above.

Miscellaneous document collections

• Narconon Reviews Lawsuit Archive, Ann, Kelly, Mary McConnell et al.
• Scientology-related Lawsuits Narconon Complaints Scribd Collection, AnonLover, Mary McConnell et al.
• Scientology Lawsuits Daniel Montalvo Scribd Collection, AnonLover.
• Scientology Lawsuits Anonymous Protesters Scribd Collection, AnonLover.
• Scientology Lawsuits Debbie Cook & Wayne Baumgarten Scribd Collection, AnonLover.
• EFF Legal Cases - Church of Scientology Archive, Electronic Frontier Foundation.
• List of Law Suits Involving Scientology as of December 8, 1993, F.A.C.T.net.
• Scientology and the Courts: 1997 Alphabetical List of Cases, Tilman Hausherr.
• The Church of Scientology vs. the Net, Ron Newman and Karin Spaink.
• Scientology Court Files, Operation Clambake.
• Legal papers on the Guardian's Office, Operation Clambake.
• Scientology lawsuits Monique Rathbun Scribd Collection, Tony Ortega.
• Scientology-related Lawsuits Miscellaneous Actions Scribd Collection, Tony Ortega, AnonLover et al.

Further reading

• Scientology Lawsuits pinboard, AnonLover.
• Infinite Complacency lawsuit archive, Jonny Jacobsen.
• Scientology Critical Information Directory: Lawsuits, Ray Hill.
• The Underground Bunker Scientology Jurisprudence Archive, Tony Ortega.
• IRS-Scientology Pact Prompts Withdrawal Of 45 FOIA Lawsuits, Chris Owen and David Touretzky.
• Found case logs 1990-93 of CoS suing the feds, WhyWeProtest.net.