Source “PR Newswire”
Author Heber Jentzsch
Date June 25th, 19841
LOS ANGELES, June 25/PRN – Church of Scientology attorney John Peterson announced Friday that he had filed a notice of appeal with the Superior Court of California and an emergency application for stay pending the appeal of a decision issued June 21 by Superior Court Judge Paul Breckenridge.
Breckenridge issued a memorandum of intended decision in a suit brought by the church and Mrs. L. Ron Hubbard against a former church employee, Gerald Armstrong, for unlawfully taking thousands of pages of valuable documents and personal papers belonging to Scientology founder L. Ron Hubbard and Mrs. Hubbard.
The decision, according to Peterson, “was completely ludicrous. On the one hand, it is clear that the trial court found there was an invasion of privacy and conversion of the documents and papers by Armstrong for purposes other than those for which they were entrusted to him. Yet, the trial court ordered that the personal and private documents be unsealed and made available for public access.
“Under this decision,” Peterson said, “any person or institution – religious or otherwise is no longer safe from anyone just coming along and stealing their personal effects and then exposing them to public view.”
According to the emergency application to the California Appeals Court, Peterson is asking the court to maintain an earlier injunction against the public use or inspection of the documents taken by Armstrong.
Peterson went on to say that “since the Superior Court’s unsealing order materially dissolved the prior injunction and changed the status quo, a stay by the appeals court seems mandatory.
Contact – John Peterson at 213-386-4303, 213-661-2747 or 213-654-8064 for the Church of Scientology, or after hours Rev. Heber Jentzsch of the Church of Scientology at 213-666-5570.
Notes
- Retrieved on September 22, 2014 from www.xenufrance.net/osa-so-called-press-releases-year-1984.pdf ↩︎