Critics Public and Private Keep Pressure on Scientology
- Scientology leaders say they want peace. They say they want to stay out of court. But with both foes at home and foes abroad, that goal may be elusive. [St. Petersburg Times]
- http://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/sptimes/access/40166651.html?FMT=FT&FMTS=FT&desc=Critics+public+and+private+keep+pressure+on+Scientology+%2f%2f+AT+HOME+Series:+SPECIAL+REPORT

Church Pays Those it Reviled
- Circuit court judge says that the Clearwater police "are coming very dangerously close to becoming a private security force for the Church of Scientology." Scientology spokesman paints all critics as criminals. [St. Petersburg Times]
- http://www.sptimes.com/News/031101/NorthPinellas/Church_pays_those_it_.shtml

Police Work for Scientology
- Editorial says that it is unlikely that off-duty uniformed Clearwater police officers paid by the Church of Scientology could remain objective when incidents occur between the church and protesters. [St. Petersburg Times]
- http://www.sptimes.com/News/032201/Opinion/Police_work_for_Scien.shtml

French Court Finds Church of Scientology Guilty of Breaching Privacy Laws
- A French court fined the Church of Scientology for violating the privacy rights of former members, although prosecutors failed to convict on other charges. [Voice of America News]
- http://www.voanews.com/article.cfm?objectID=1D964FEC-B042-423B-9CB06A5E91A45062&title=French%20Court%20Finds%20Church%20of%20Scientology%20Guilty%20Of%20Breaching%20Privacy%20Laws&catOID=45C9C784-88AD-11D4-A57200A0CC5EE46C

Scientology Trial Opens in France
- Seven members of the Church of Scientology have gone on trial in France on charges of fraud. [BBC News]
- http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/452734.stm

Scientology Faces French Ban
- The French Justice Minister says she is prepared to consider banning the Church of Scientology, considered a cult--not a religion--in France. [BBC News]
- http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/443271.stm

Scientologists Face Paris Ban
- Public prosecutor accuses the Church of Scientology with "mental manipulation." The sect is on trial for false advertising and attempted fraud. [BBC News]
- http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/1836812.stm

Germany: Religious Dispute
- A German federal court has been hearing a case which could decide if restrictions on the Church of Scientology in Germany are legal. [BBC News]
- http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/17791.stm

Germany Can't Decide if Scientology is a Religion
- A federal court in Germany has failed to reach a verdict on whether or not Scientology can be considered a religion. [BBC News]
- http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/23555.stm

German-US Scientology Row
- Germany and the United States are to discuss their disagreements over the Church of Scientology. [BBC News]
- http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/20185.stm

French Scientology Trial Ends
- The trial has ended in the French city of Marseille of seven members of the Church of Scientology accused of fraud. [BBC News]
- http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/455759.stm

French Scientology Trial
- A French prosecutor has asked a court in Marseille to jail a former leader of the Church of Scientology who has been accused of obtaining large sums of money by fraud from other members of the Church. [BBC News]
- http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/455059.stm

French Scientologists Guilty of Fraud
- Marseilles court has convicted five members of the Church of Scientology of fraud for extorting large payments from vulnerable members for dubious cures. [BBC News]
- http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/521345.stm

France Urged to Ban Scientology
- A French government committee recommends dissolving the Church of Scientology on the grounds that its activities threaten public order. [BBC News]
- http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/635986.stm

Concerns Over Church of Scientology
- A federal court in Germany has failed to reach a verdict on the legal status of Scientology -- after years of international debate. [BBC News].
- http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/despatches/europe/23966.stm

State Takes Middle Road Against Scientology
- Colleagues of State Attorney Bernie McCabe say charging the church, not the members, and deciding against a manslaughter charge walks the line between acting too harshly and too weakly. [St. Petersburg Times]
- http://www.sptimes.com/TampaBay/112398/State_takes_middle_ro.html

Scientology Told to Release Notes on Late Member
- A judge gives the church a delay so it can fight for the privacy of a practice it compares to confession. [St. Petersburg Times]
- http://www.sptimes.com/News/31699/TampaBay/Scientology_told_to_r.html

Scientology Critic Won't Face Retrial
- Trial of a critic of Scientology on a misdemeanor charge ends in a hung jury due to worries that he was set up by the Church of Scientology. The prosecutors then dropped the charges. [St. Petersburg Times]
- http://www.sptimes.com/News/052601/TampaBay/Scientology_critic_wo.shtml

Supreme Court refuses to review Church of Scientology libel case
- Ten years after Time magazine ran an award-winning article portraying the Church of Scientology as a "ruthless global scam," the Supreme Court refused to consider reinstating the church's libel case. [Associated Press]
- http://www.beliefnet.com/story/89/story_8921_1.html

Scientology loses copyright round
- Colorado nonprofit group FACTNet 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. [CNET News.com]
- http://news.com.com/2100-1023-217696.html

Fishman Affidavit
- A copy of the declaration filed by Steven Fishman in Church of Scientology International v. Fishman and Geertz. OT2 and 3 are bowdlerized to comply with Dutch law.
- http://www.peghole.com/mare/fishman2/fishman.html

Om scientologerna
- Bilingual (Swedish-English) site about Zenon Panoussis and his skirmishes with the Church of Scientology. The story is told through archived posts from alt.religion.scientology and European press coverage of the saga.
- http://www.dtek.chalmers.se/~d1dd/cos/

Maureen E. Garde
- Collection of judicial rulings, court pleadings and other legal documentation from Scientology-related litigation, 1995-March 1997.
- http://www.xs4all.nl/~oracle/mgarde/

Friends and Family of Lisa McPherson
- Information on the civil suit for wrongful death, filed on behalf of the estate of Lisa McPherson, who died in the custody of the Church of Scientology.
- http://www.lisamcpherson.com/

Scientology vs. Panoussis Ruling
- Readers discuss the verdict of the Swedish High Court, which upheld a lower court's ruling that Zenon Panoussis had infringed Scientology's copyright. Includes comments from Arnie Lerma and Karin Spaink. [Slashdot]
- http://slashdot.org/yro/01/03/09/1425236.shtml

Dear Amanda
- One father's struggle with the courts and the Church of Scientology over his daughter.
- http://www.ecentral.com/members/skeller/

Hana Whitfield
- Affidavit of Hana Whitfield. The story of an ex member.
- http://www.religio.de/therapie/sc/hana.html

Church of Scientology International v. Fishman and Geertz
- A selection of publicly-available legal documents filed in U.S. District Court, Central District of California.
- http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~dst/Fishman/