Scientology says that ’s harassment go well with in opposition to her former Church, and its chief needs to be DOA because of the First Modification.
“Defendants decided that the overwhelming majority of the allegations within the 68-page, 310 paragraph lengthy FAC implicate Defendants’ constitutionally protected speech or exercise, “ Scientology’s Winston & Strawn LLP and Jeffer Mangels Butler & Mitchell LLP attorneys spelled out in a memorandum filed Tuesday in LA Superior Courtroom. “Every explanation for motion incorporates all prior allegations, and every motion relies upon – in complete or partly – on allegations containing protected exercise inside the anti-SLAPP statute,” they add.
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Defendants Scientology Worldwide, Miscavige and Church cooperation the Non secular Know-how Centre shall be looking for permission this morning from Decide Randolph Hammock to submit a mixture temporary of assist for an anti-SLAPP movement to strike. “Regardless of the size of the First Amended Criticism and the quantity of its allegations, CSI and RTC don’t search to extend the overall variety of pages allotted to them by statute. Defendants search solely to file a single consolidated 30- web page temporary,” the defendants asserts (learn Scientology’s memo to the courtroom right here).
In a brief October 17 submitting of her personal, host Remini stated that she thought 30-pages “extreme,” however would defer “to the Courtroom’s judgment as to the suitable size of a coordinated submitting and, if the Courtroom grants Defendants’ request, Plaintiff asks for go away to file a coordinated response of an equal variety of pages.”
Not removed from the felony courtroom constructing the place Remini and others on September 7 watched outstanding Scientologist Danny Masterson sentenced to 30-years behind bars on a number of rape costs Decide Hammock will hear arguments from either side later as we speak.
Remini’s August 30 FAC reiterates the King of Queens‘ earlier allegations within the unique August 2 submitting of retaliation by the celeb heavy Church for her public lambasting of its coverage and personnel. Moreover Remini’s FACis says that for the reason that criticism was filed she has been the sufferer of varied acts of bank card fraud, attacked and mocked by on-line trolls. In pushback to the go well with, Scientology accused Remini of being “a bigot,” and for“threats of and precise violence in opposition to the Church.” Laughably, the Church additionally instructed Remini “contemplate emigrating to Russia.”
This week, Scientology doubled down on Remini within the courtroom docket.
“This case considerations a greater than decade-long marketing campaign by Plaintiff in opposition to her former church, the Church of Scientology,” they harshly stated of the once-high profile member. “Over the previous decade, she has made a profitable profession spewing hate and provoking violence in opposition to the Church of Scientology, its parishioners, and the ecclesiastical chief of the Scientology faith,” the defendants procliamed.
“She has performed this by her autobiography, a cable tv present, podcasts, and appearances on broadcast tv and radio,” Scientology added within the October seventeenth submitting. “She has used these platforms to name the Church ‘pure f*cking evil’ and its parishioners as ‘sick assh*les,’ “f*cking like physique snatchers,” and “morally depleted,” and even to falsely accuse the ecclesiastical chief of the faith of unidentified ‘crimes.’ CSI has, and continues to, reply to Plaintiff’s slander in varied public fora.”
As acknowledged within the unique nine-claim criticism of early August and the FAC alleging even higher harassment that adopted a couple of weeks later, Remini is looking for unspecified damages in her authorized motion. The actress/activist can be hoping the courtroom will give her injunctive reduction “to finish Scientology’s insurance policies in opposition to Suppressive Individuals in order that present and former Scientologists, and others who want to expose Scientology’s abuses, together with journalists and advocates, could be happy to carry Scientology accountable with out the worry that they are going to be threatened into silence.”
Remini’s case will not be the one energetic harassment motion the Church is dealing with in courtroom.
Decide Upinder Kalra on September 26 lifted the lengthy keep on the 2019-filed harassment case in opposition to Masterson and the Church of Scientology from a collection of former Church members and their households.
The plaintiffs in that matter declare harassment and extra by Masterson and Scientology after the plaintiffs and their households went to the LAPD with sexual assault accusations in opposition to the previous That 70s Present actor. All three Jane Does within the civil case, wherein Scientology unsuccessfully tried to get the Supreme Courtroom to intervene final 12 months, are former members of the Church. They had been additionally all contributors within the felony case in opposition to now incarcerated Masterson.
With volumes of discovery and extra nonetheless to be waded by, the trial for that harassment case tentatively set for September 22, 2025.
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