(2)     Tue 18 Nov 97 17:36
By: Sheppard Gordon
To: All
Re: Scientology loses one
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    This issue: < http://www.tbtf.com/archive/11-17-97.html >

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  Scientology loses a big one

  The original church, stripped of $340M, can't hide behind new corporate
shells:

    A Federal judge has issued a definitive ruling that clears the way
    for hundreds of lawsuits to go forward against the self-declared
    religious organization, and in addition calls into question its
    tax-exempt status [1]. When faced with paying a $6M judgement to a
    creditor, the Church of Scientology of California dissolved itself
    and transferred its assets to two new organizations called the
    Church of Scientology International and the Religious Technology
    Center. The judge ruled that the new Scientology corporations are
    merely shells controlled by and identical to the disbanded mother
    church so their assets are subject to court judgements against the
    original institution.

    Why am I writing about Scientology, new readers may wonder? The CoS
    has worked aggresively, using channels legal and dirty, to stifle
    free speech on the Internet and may have been responsible for shut-
    ting down a long-running anonymous remailer, anon.penet.fi [2],
    [3].

    [1] http://www.factnet.org/Scientology/court.htm
    [2] http://www.tbtf.com/archive/08-21-95.html
    [3] http://www.tbtf.com/archive/09-08-96.html




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