JBWriter
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The definitive thread to read/review about the 'goings on' at the Preliminary Hearing in the matter of Monique "Mosey" Rathbun v. Scientology/Miscavige/RTC/etc. is right here at ESMB: http://www.forum.exscn.net/showthre...or-harrassment&p=836569&viewfull=1#post836569
The definitive media source for excellent coverage about most everything related to this important legal case, including the Preliminary Hearing, is at The Underground Bunker blog at this link: http://tonyortega.org/2013/09/12/mo...finishes-in-her-temporary-injunction-hearing/
For ESMBers and those who lurk/learn here, this thread is intended as a place to post media reports/articles about this first phase of the case.
Here's a link to a news story from KHOU's Stasia Willson: http://www.khou.com/news/texas-news...goes-before-Comal-County-Judge-223546121.html
Harassment case involving the Church of Scientology goes before judge
(All red highlights that follow are from me -- explanation for doing so found below the quoted portions.)
Excerpts:
Yes, a few typos/grammatical errors/dropped words. And I wouldn't give those forgivable mistakes a second-thought were it not for the clumsy/clunky writing style -- and rather sketchy slant of this hastily-uploaded piece. (Uploaded @ 6:03 today, per the article.)
How many actual reporters get a quote from an attorney so very wrong?
And... "alleged human harassment" ?
Um...what?
Read or don't - it's here and YMMV.
JB.
The definitive media source for excellent coverage about most everything related to this important legal case, including the Preliminary Hearing, is at The Underground Bunker blog at this link: http://tonyortega.org/2013/09/12/mo...finishes-in-her-temporary-injunction-hearing/
For ESMBers and those who lurk/learn here, this thread is intended as a place to post media reports/articles about this first phase of the case.
Here's a link to a news story from KHOU's Stasia Willson: http://www.khou.com/news/texas-news...goes-before-Comal-County-Judge-223546121.html
Harassment case involving the Church of Scientology goes before judge
(All red highlights that follow are from me -- explanation for doing so found below the quoted portions.)
Excerpts:
COMAL COUNTY, Texas -- A case involving alleged human harassment is going before a Comal County judge.
A Bulverde woman has filed a lawsuit against Scientology leader David Miscavige and Operatives and Organizations of Scientology.
The plaintiff in the case, Monique Rathbun, is married to former Scientology Executive Marty Rathbun, who blew the whistle on the church and turned into an outspoken critic.
The two-day hearing is designed to determine whether a temporary injunction against the head of the church should be made permanent.
For more than three yeas, Rathbun claims the Church of Scientology International and its leader Miscavige with the Religious Technology Center, RTC, shattered the privacy and tranquility of her family's life in south Texas.
"This case is about the intentional premeditated harassment carried out by the defendants against the plaintiff Monique Rathbun. Should the temporary restraining order protecting Ms. Rathbun, should it be extended into a temporary injunction, these defendants subject to jurisdiction here in Texas," said Plaintiff Attorney Ray Jeffery.
Rathbun said Miscavige and the Church of Scientology International are responsible for constant surveillance, face-to-face confrontations, intimidation, insults and harassment of her family, friends and coworkers as well as humiliating nasty pranks.
Rathbun also said that the church and RTC interfered with her and her husbands ability to make a living, claims the defense attorneys deny.
Rathbun claims she and her family moved from Corpus Christi last year to Bulverde in hopes of escaping the alleged harassment, but soon they learned they were being watched from an RV with a camera set up. The defense claims they had nothing to do with the surveillance.
"She's entitled to make her case. She's entitled to demonstrate and get recovery from those who violated her rights as they did but that's Mr. Miscavige," said Attorney Lamont Jefferson.
The defense team stressed on Thursday that Miscavige is solely concerned with the church, but that Scientology has a right to protect its belief system, and that the church took no illegal action in how it dealt with the Rathbun family.
Rathbun also seeks $1 million in damages as part of her legal action.
Yes, a few typos/grammatical errors/dropped words. And I wouldn't give those forgivable mistakes a second-thought were it not for the clumsy/clunky writing style -- and rather sketchy slant of this hastily-uploaded piece. (Uploaded @ 6:03 today, per the article.)
How many actual reporters get a quote from an attorney so very wrong?
And... "alleged human harassment" ?
Um...what?
Read or don't - it's here and YMMV.
JB.