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From: coriez@ix.netcom.com (Charles Oriez)
Newsgroups: alt.religion.scientology
Subject: Church loses court appeal - Denver Post 9/21
Date: 21 Sep 1995 12:47:58 GMT
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"Church loses court appeal"
Denver Post, Thursday, 9/21
page 2b sidebar
A US Supreme Court justice yesterday denied an appeal by the Church
of Scientology to stay a district court order that it return computer
materials to a man the church has accused of stealing church secrets,
an attorney said.
The stay was denied late yesterday by associate Supreme Court
Justice Stephen Breyer, according to Natalie Hanlon-Leh, an attorney
for Lawrence Wollersheim of Boulder.
The church has accused Wollersheim, a 46-year-old former church
member turned apostate, of violating a copyright and trade secrets(sic)
by making church secrets available around the world on 48,000 computer
bulletin boards.
The church got a federal court order to seize Wollersheim's
computer, documents and disks, and then sifted through the material,
looking for secret church doctrines.
After the search, a federal judge ordered the computer and disks
returned. The church refused and appealed to the Supreme Court.
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unclear language in the third paragraph is part of the original story,
not a transcription typo.
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