GRAHAM E. BERRY (SBN 128503)
LAW OFFICES OF GRAHAM E. BERRY
One Wilshire Boulevard
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Los Angeles, California 90017-3383
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Attorneys for Plaintiff
MICHAEL P. PATTINSON
UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT
CENTRAL DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA
MICHAEL PHILIP PATTINSON, Plaintiff, vs.CHURCH OF SCIENTOLOGY INTERNATIONAL, a California Corporation; RELIGIOUS TECHNOLOGY CENTER, a California Corporation; CHURCH OF SPIRITUAL TECHNOLOGY, a California Corporation; BUILDING MANAGEMENT SERVICES, a California Corporation; THE SEA ORGANIZATION, a California unincorporated association; MARY SUE HUBBARD, an individual; CAPTAIN DAVID MISCAVIGE, an individual; KENDRICK L. MOXON, an individual; and DOES 1 through 10, inclusive, Defendants. Case No. 98-3985CAS (SHx)
THIRD AMENDED COMPLAINT FOR (1) Fraud (Counts 1-6)(2) Constructive Fraud(3) Unfair Business Practices(4) Breach of Fiduciary Duty(5) False Imprisonment(6) Invasion of Privacy(7) Intentional Infliction of Emotional Distress(8) Interference with Business Relations (9) Negligence(10) Breach of Contract and Breach of the Covenant of Good Faith and Fair Dealing(11) Restitution(12) Unjust Enrichment, Accounting, Equitable Tracing and Imposition of Constructive Trust(13) Declaratory and Injunctive Relief
JURY TRIAL DEMANDEDTrial Date:
None Discovery Date: None
Motion Cutoff: None
PRELIMINARY STATEMENT
COMES NOW Plaintiff, Michael Pattinson, and for his Third Amended Complaint
against these Defendants, and alleges as follows:
JURISDICTION
1. This case originally arose, inter alia, under and was brought pursuant
to the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organization laws (RICO), 18 U.S.C.
§1964, and 42 U.S.C., §§1983, 1985 and 1988; the matter
in controversy exceeding $75,000 exclusive of costs and interest, and by
the United States Government being a Relief Defendant herein. Confronted
by Defendants' written policy of using litigation as a means to "overwhelm,"
"harass," and "destroy" an opponent, Plaintiff has dismissed those claims
and certain non-appearing Defendants in order to expeditiously advance
Plaintiff's other claims to trial. Venue in this district is authorized
under 187 U.S.C. §1965 in that the Defendants herein reside, are found,
have agents, have transacted or transact affairs within this district and
that 'minimum contacts' and 'national contacts' exist. This Court
continues to have ancillary and pendent jurisdiction over the state law
claims stated herein in that they arise from a common nucleus of operative
facts. The torts herein alleged involve substantial identity of persons,
wrongful conduct on the part of Defendants and resulting damage to Plaintiff
herein.
SECULAR ACTION
2. This Third Amended Complaint is not directed at any of Defendants'
religious beliefs or freedoms. It is only directed at Defendants'
demonstrably secular policies, processes, practices and conduct in connection
with, at the very most, religiously motivated conduct which is subject
to regulation for the protection of society.
THE PARTIES
3. Plaintiff MICHAEL PHILIP PATTINSON ("Plaintiff") is an individual
domiciled and residing in the State of California, County of Orange.
Plaintiff is a citizen of the United Kingdom of England, Scotland, Wales
and Northern Ireland.
4. Defendant Church of Scientology International ("CSI") is a California
corporation with its principal office in the City of Los Angeles, County
of Los Angeles, State of California.
5. Defendant Religious Technology Center ("RTC") is a California corporation
with its principal office in the City of Los Angeles, County of Los Angeles,
State of California.
6. Defendant Church of Spiritual Technology ("CST") is a California
non-profit corporation with its principal place of business in the City
of Los Angeles, County of Los Angeles, State of California.
7. Defendant Building Management Services ("BMS") is a California non-profit
religious corporation, with its principal offices in the City of Los Angeles,
County of Los Angeles, State of California.
8. Defendant Sea Organization ("Sea Org") is an unincorporated California-based
entity or association housed in the various business offices of the corporate
Defendants herein, and is one of the alter-ego entities which control the
Scientology enterprise throughout the world.
9. Defendant Mary Sue Hubbard ("MSH") is a resident of the City of
Los Angeles, County of Los Angeles, State of California.
10. Defendant Captain David Miscavige ("Captain Miscavige" or
"David Miscavige") is a resident of the State of California and does business
within the City of Los Angeles, County of Los Angeles.
11. Defendant Kendrick L. Moxon is a resident of the City of Los Angeles,
County of Los Angeles, State of California.
12. Defendants are sued, inter alia, because: CSI is the mother
church of Scientology and the successor to Church of Scientology of California
which was the mother church in Fall 1973; RTC is the holder of Scientology's
trademarks and responsible for the purity of Hubbard's "technology" and
holder of the copyright to "Keeping Scientology Working #1 ("KSW #1"),
and other of Hubbard's copyrighted materials; BMS is the owner of much
of the corporate Defendants' real estate; the Sea Organization is an unincorporated
association that is the alter ego controlling entity of the entire Scientology
enterprise; Mary Sue Hubbard was one of Scientology's managing agents in
Fall 1973 and responsible for substantial conduct complained of herein
in her then number two position as "The Guardian"; David Miscavige is now
the managing agent of the entire Scientology enterprise and personally
participated in the wrongs complained of by Plaintiff herein; Kendrick
Moxon is an attorney, and was once with the Guardian's Office, through
whom much of Scientology's fair game policies and practices complained
of herein are conducted and he is personally conducting the current fair
gaming of Plaintiff. In essence, Miscavige directs the abuses of
those inside and outside the Scientology enterprise and Moxon implements
the abuses of those outside of the Scientology enterprise. References
to Defendants herein shall include their predecessors, both corporate and
"post," and the then agents of same.
13. Plaintiff is ignorant of the true names and capacities of Defendants,
Does 1 through 10, and therefore sues said Defendants by fictitious names.
Plaintiff will seek leave to amend this complaint when the true names of
said Defendants have been ascertained. Plaintiff is informed and
believes and on that basis alleges that each of the fictitious Defendants
was in some way responsible for, participated in or contributed to the
matters and things of which Plaintiff complains herein and, in some fashion,
has legal responsibility therefore.
14. There exists, and at all times relevant hereto, has existed, such
a unity of control and interest among the corporate Defendants, and the
Sea Org, such that any individuality and separateness between each of them
has ceased and each is the alter ego or agent of the others. Adherence
to the fiction of the separate existence of the Defendant corporations
and of the Sea Org would permit an abuse of corporate privilege and would
promote injustice in that, via the unified control, the assets of the corporate
Defendants and Sea Org can be transferred at will and thus concealed from
corporate debts, liabilities, government obligations and taxes and other
obligations. Adherence to the fiction of the separate existence of
the Defendant corporations and the Sea Org would also be inequitable because
the Managing Agents and/or subdivisions of the Scientology enterprise can
transfer personnel and control of documents from one entity to another,
thus allowing the Defendants to avoid legitimate discovery and thereby
to effect the continuing abuse of process, obstruction of justice, and
improper manipulation of the judicial system.
15. At all times herein mentioned, each of the Defendants and/or their
predecessors, affiliates, subsidiaries and related entities, and each of
the Doe Defendants, was the agent, servant, employee, fellow member, associated
and/or joint venturer or conspirator of each of the other remaining Defendants
and was at all times acting within the purpose and scope of said agency,
employment or joint venture, and acting with the express and/or implied
knowledge or consent of the remaining Defendants, and each of them.
The acts of each Defendant were approved and/or ratified by each other
Defendant, and together, constitute a single course of conduct.
FIRST CAUSE OF ACTION (FRAUD)
(Against All Defendants and Does 1-10, Inclusive)
16. Plaintiff refers to and incorporates by reference each and
every paragraph set forth above, and paragraphs 66 to 80 below, as though
each were fully set forth herein.
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COUNT ONE
(Scientifically Proven Claims To Cure Illness and Disease)
17. From Fall 1973 to Fall 1997, the predecessors of the corporate
Defendants herein, and their agents, made numerous misrepresentations and
non-disclosures regarding their responsibilities in connection with Commodore
Hubbard's Policy Letter "Keeping Scientology Working Series #1 ("KSW #1").
Such responsibilities included ensuring that Hubbard's ("LRH") "standard
tech," ethics and administration would be fairly and uniformly applied
for Plaintiff's betterment. Between 1991 and Fall 1997 RTC, CSI,
and in particular, Captain Miscavige, failed to adequately and effectively
ensure that LRH's "standard tech," ethics and administration were applied
to Plaintiff's benefit in accordance with KSW #1. Instead, RTC, CSI,
and Captain Miscavige in particular, denied the correct Hubbard technology
from being applied to Plaintiff in breach of their duties pursuant to the
contents of KSW #1.
18. RTC, CSI, and in particular Captain Miscavige, not only denied
Plaintiff LRH's "standard tech," ethics and administration as mandated
by KSW #1 but also denied Plaintiff the recourse that they were duty bound
to provide to Plaintiff pursuant to Hubbard's Policy Letters such as contained
in Volume One of the Organization Executive Course ("O.E.C.," the "administrative"
works of Hubbard). Despite having usurped their positions and authority,
RTC, CSI and Captain Miscavige were required by LRH's "standard tech" and
KSW #1 to enforce technology applications, warranted by Plaintiff's circumstances,
such as "third party investigations," assigning "ethics conditions" to
offending staff members, correcting justice actions, permitting Plaintiff
to face his accusers and other "standard tech," "ethics" and "admin" "handlings."
19. RTC, CSI and Captain Miscavige's destructive denial of the
purported benefits of KSW #1, standard tech, ethics and admin to Plaintiff,
contrary to Defendants' express representations to Plaintiff, and to provide
him proper recourse as promised, caused Plaintiff substantial duress, distress
and damage as alleged herein. Such distress and damage is now aggravated
by Defendant Moxon's "fair gaming" of Plaintiff in the form of filing a
retaliatory complaint captioned Reveillere v. Pattinson (O.C.S.C. Case
No. 800981) and using tax exempt section 501(c)(3) monies to prosecute
the private lawsuit of a fellow OSA staffer to collect a private debt allegedly
existing between two Scientologists, using information culled from Plaintiff's
confidential counseling files therein, and utilizing "Black Scientology"
and destructive fair game operations in deposing Plaintiff in that litigation.
20. Beginning in or about the Fall of 1973, agents and representatives
of various of the Defendants herein, including Colette Byasson, Hank Laarhuis,
Jean-Pierre Vogel and Cathy Vogel, at the Scientology enterprises' premises
then at Rue de Londres, Paris, France, began a long-term series of misrepresentations,
and non-disclosures, to Plaintiff concerning the nature and source of Scientology's
"technology", and the advantages to be derived therefrom. These misrepresentations
and non-disclosures were, inter alia, set forth in the "Keeping Scientology
Working No. 1" ("KSW #1") Policy Letter ("PL"), Dianetics, the Modern Science
of Mental Health ("DMSMH"), Handbook for Preclears (13th Act, p. 204),
Hubbard Communications Office Policy Letters ("HCOPL") "Safeguarding Technology"
and other Scientology promotional materials and magazines. These
misrepresentations included claims that Scientology was a science which
had objectively been proven to be able to improve one's IQ, cure a person
of his/her physical ailments and "cure" a person of his/her homosexuality.
In addition to the oral and written misrepresentations made, and set forth
above, misrepresentations on the part of various of the Defendants were
made from Fall 1973 to Fall 1997 by way of the various publications, tapes,
books, and promotional material supplied by Defendants and their agents
to the Plaintiff.
21. Between Fall 1973 and Fall 1998, the various misrepresentations
made, and material non-disclosures not made, to the Plaintiff, were false,
misleading and untrue in numerous respects, including, but not limited
to: representations concerning the scientific qualifications of L.
Ron Hubbard as in Hubbard's biographical data in various of his books,
i.e., DMSMH, Dianetics: The Evolution of a Science, What is Scientology?,
The Creation of Human Ability, All About Radiation, etc.; the scientific
basis for Scientology; the source of materials and the "technology"; the
nature and quality of Scientology services; the scientific "underpinning
for the tenets of Scientology" ("Axioms and Logics" booklet, now in Scientology
0-8); the validity of various copyrights and trademarks; and the use to
which they were being put; and the various benefits, including on-going
good health, that Plaintiff could expect from training and processing provided
by Defendants. Additionally, representations were made to Plaintiff
that problems that he believed he was suffering from, as a result of his
sexual orientation were not, in fact, a problem of orientation, but rather
were a physiological/ psychosomatic manifestation that, supposedly, according
to LRH, were the result of "engrams" and "implants" affecting Plaintiff
that could and would be cured by purchasing more services from Scientology,
and, in particular, by continued Scientology "auditing" with the E-meter.
22. In the Fall of 1973, Plaintiff began taking courses in "auditing"
through the Scientology organization at Rue de Londres, Paris, France,
where Scientology staff member, Colette Byasson, used Hubbard's dissemination
procedure on Plaintiff to "find his ruin," which Defendants have consistently
identified as his homosexual orientation, considered by Defendants to be
a curable psychosomatic or mental condition, and to use that "ruin" to
induce Plaintiff to pay for Scientology services administered by Defendants.
23. The Scientology enterprise, through its agents, expressly
reassured Plaintiff that Scientology was the answer to all of Plaintiff's
personal problems that were "ruining" his life, including his homosexuality
which Plaintiff was then having difficulty accepting. Through their
representations and material non-disclosures, between Fall 1973 and Fall
1997, Defendants induced Plaintiff to utterly commit to the Scientology
enterprise and the writings and teachings of Commodore Hubbard and his
adherents as a cure for his perceived suffering and "ruin."
24. Initially, in the Fall of 1973, Plaintiff was expressly told
by Colette Byasson of Scientology's Paris Org, that Scientology was not
a church. Much later, after an adverse federal court ruling regarding
the E-meter, and after coercive indoctrination, it was represented to Plaintiff,
at Flag in 1976 and 1977, and by Jane Kember and other Guardian's Office
personnel, in briefings at Versailles and other places, in 1977 and 1978,
and expressly for public relations, regulatory and tax purposes, that it
was a church that co-existed with other churches, the adherents of which
could concurrently practice Scientology and their other faiths without
inconsistency. This was part of a fraudulent scheme to exert total
control over Plaintiff and over his mind, morals and money.
25. At all relevant times between Fall 1973 and Fall 1997, agents
of the various Defendants represented to the Plaintiff the various purported
physical and mental advantages to be obtained through following the practices
of Defendants and, in particular, as to his continued good health and well
being, and the "handling" of his homosexuality, as long as he continued
in the courses of Scientology study and auditing in accordance with Defendants'
express and implied representations and material non-disclosures.
Reasonably relying on those representations, and the material non-disclosures,
described herein, and in the face of representations by various agents
of the Defendants that he had no need of conventional, medical or mental
health therapy to, among other things, "handle" his homosexuality or "ruin,"
Plaintiff refrained from seeking such conventional therapy or counseling,
or other conventional medical attention, while a member of Scientology
to his physical, mental and financial detriment.
26. In or about April 1975, Plaintiff became a staff member at
the "Scientology Org" in Paris, France. During his tenure as a dedicated
Scientology staff member in Paris, he worked from 9:00 a.m. to approximately
11:30 p.m. seven days a week for months at a time for pay that was at or
below the poverty level. The resulting combination of fatigue, stress
and reliance upon Defendants as his only perceived support group made Plaintiff
increasingly susceptible to coercive indoctrination and influence, particularly
as a result of the use of a new lexicon with words being defined differently
from the commonly accepted definitions. Because Defendants regarded
Plaintiff's subsequent departure from the staff of the Paris Org to be
a breach of his commitment to Defendants, they submitted Plaintiff with
a "freeloader bill" in the amount of $30,000.00. Such monies allegedly
represented the dollar value of the "indoctrination procedures" Plaintiff
had received from the Defendants while being on staff at the Paris Org.
That is, Defendants, charged Plaintiff for each "session" in which the
E-meter had been used and for all indoctrination sessions and other "services"
received whilst he was engaged in training at Flag Land Base and then while
in virtual slave labor for the Scientology organization at the Paris Org.
Plaintiff understood that the consequences of failing to pay the "freeloader
bill" was a certainty of "fair game" and/or "disconnection" from friends
within "the group".
27. After leaving the staff of the Scientology org. in Paris
in 1978, Plaintiff continued his auditing and processing through the State
of "Clear" and up to the "O.T. Levels" in Copenhagen, Denmark. Continuing
to reasonably rely upon the misrepresentations and material non-disclosures
of Defendants and their agents, and being increasingly subjected to their
coercive indoctrination, group hypnosis, brainwashing and other mind control
techniques, Plaintiff continued to undergo Scientology auditing, processing
and to take other Scientology courses at the Flag Land Base in Clearwater,
Florida between the years 1982 to 1989. In February 1990, Plaintiff
completed the then highest-known Scientology level called New OT VIII.
28. In February 1986, Plaintiff signed the Sea Org's "billion
year" employment contract, as a direct consequence of the LRH Death Announcement
Event, which Plaintiff attended at the Flag Land Base Auditorium in Clearwater,
Florida, and at which Defendant Captain Miscavige and "Loyal Officers"
Pat and Annie Broeker made material misrepresentations which Plaintiff
reasonably relied upon to his damage and detriment including but not limited
to: (a) That, in accordance with the Scientology policy regarding
the telling of an "acceptable truth," LRH's body had become such a restraint
that he had to leave it behind or "drop" it, on a self-determined basis,
in order to continue his research into upper OT levels, whereas the real
truth was that LRH had died as a degraded and hermit-like incoherent fugitive,
unkempt, with rotting teeth, long nails, and withered appearance, having
suffered a major stroke with numerous recent needle marks on his body and
whilst being administered psychiatric drugs including, but not limited
to, Vistril which was expressly contrary to Defendants' own rules and regulations;
(b) The continued availability of the upper level materials beyond OT VIII,
despite LRH's death. Specifically, Pat Broeker displayed a transparency
on the screen of the auditorium on which was LRH's purported handwriting
showing approximately 33 sets of 3 numbers in series representing an astronomical
figure which represented a date which Pat Broeker claimed came directly
out of LRH's OT X materials (which did not exist, at least at that time)
and that he had been personally assisting LRH with his research into the
upper OT levels, was privy to them, was now personally in charge of them
and was now a loyal officer under LRH's absent auspices; (c) That, according
to Pat Broeker, LRH had left all the subsequent OT levels up to OT XV (Total
Freedom), in a state of readiness to be released when he (being Pat Broeker)
and RTC deemed it appropriate. Plaintiff reasonably relied upon these
misrepresentations to his damage and detriment believing that those additional
OT levels were available to him when, in fact, they were not, as Defendant
Captain Miscavige well knew.
29. The aforesaid misrepresentations and non-disclosures materially
induced Plaintiff to assist the Sea Org's efforts and goals to "Clear The
Planet" by becoming the OT Cramming Officer on the upcoming Sea Org OT
VIII ship which was subsequently the M.V. Freewinds. When Plaintiff
signed the Sea Org Contract, vowing to serve the Sea Org for the next one
billion years, the Sea Org recruiter (Dee Ann Rule) put Plaintiff on a
"Project Prepare" in which he had to eliminate all personal debts prior
to activating his contract through a procedure known as a Fitness Board.
However, Plaintiff was subsequently required to continue to pay for Scientology
auditing and therefore his debts increased, and he was thus prevented from
completing the "Project Prepare."
30. Defendants' fraudulent misrepresentations, and material non-disclosures,
and Plaintiff's reasonable and detrimental reliance thereon, to his great
damage, continued throughout his nearly 25 years of membership in the Scientology
enterprise . For example, while taking the Scientology courses in
auditing, he was constantly reminded by Scientology "registrars" (whose
job it is to obtain monies from Scientologists for the purposes of the
Scientology enterprise and those of Defendants herein) of his "ruin" and
that the next course or auditing or "brand new Hubbard breakthrough" would
solve his "ruin," or "cure" his homosexuality and other mental and physical
ailments, forever. At the time Plaintiff was persuaded that they
could "handle" his homosexuality with "processing," Defendants never advised
him of the H.A.S.I. Directive No. 152 stating that "persons with long homosexual
histories" are "forbidden" from receiving the very processing he was paying
for.
31. In 1995 agents of Defendants, including Mary Voegeding, implicitly
referred to the "success story" of John Travolta in that regard while both
John Travolta and Plaintiff were simultaneously "on lines" at Defendant's
Flag Land Base in Clearwater, Florida, while failing to disclose published
reports of John Travolta's homosexual relationship with porn actor Paul
Barresi.
32. Defendants coercively indoctrinated Plaintiff into believing
that LRH was the "Source" of all knowledge so that Plaintiff was brainwashed
into continuing to rely on Defendants' misrepresentations and material
non-disclosures including the fact that Scientology had not handled LRH's
numerous physical ailments, nor Captain Miscavige's illness, nor Moxon's
illness, all being matters clearly indicating that Scientology does not
work, contrary to the public statements of Scientology nor that Scientology
public relations chief Heber Jentzsch's wife, Yvonne, died after her health
problems were not handled by auditing even though LRH intervened to personally
"handle" her "physical condition."
33. After Plaintiff completed Scientology's most advanced course,
New OT VIII, in February 1990, he returned to Paris, France, reasonably
relying upon Defendants' representations that his personal problems ("ruin")
such as his homosexuality, had been finally resolved. However, two
months later, Plaintiff's "ruin", being his homosexual urges, returned
even more strongly than before. Although Plaintiff had done the New
OT VIII course on the M.V. Freewinds, at such great expense as to totally
ruin him financially, he could not return to the M.V. Freewinds for further
"handling" of his "ruin" unless he paid the Defendants even more money.
Moreover, Plaintiff knew that if he could not/did not pay Defendants even
more money for their courses and auditing then he could be "off loaded"
for being unable to pay Scientology's "fixed donations."
34. Consequently, Plaintiff moved to Mexico to convalesce and
to recover financially. Having been destroyed financially by Defendants,
and as a direct consequence thereof, Plaintiff lost all of his personal
possessions in Paris. In 1995, Plaintiff then proceeded to the Flag
Land Base in Clearwater, Florida with the intention, and confidence based
on Defendants' misrepresentations dating back 20 years, that his continuing
"injustice problems" and "ruin" could be resolved by Defendants and their
"tech," "ethics," and "admin," including KSW #1. From 1995 through
the end of May 1997, Plaintiff's "condition" worsened despite Defendants'
continuing misrepresentations. At the time, Plaintiff had been so
coercively indoctrinated, brainwashed, subjected to hypnotic suggestions
and other methods of mind control, that he did not recognize the mentally
manipulative effect of Defendants carrot and stick, bait and switch, "ethics"
handlings, rewards and punishment.
35. During this period of time, Plaintiff was in communication
with the most senior echelons of the Scientology hierarchy including Captain
Miscavige personally, who expressly promised to see to a complete and final
resolution of the "injustices" perpetrated, but failed to do so in disregard
of KSW #1. At the end of 1996, while Plaintiff was still under the
coercive indoctrination, hypnosis, mind control and mental manipulation
techniques of Defendants, Plaintiff was ordered to attend a "briefing"
in the restaurant of Scientology's Sand Castle Hotel in Clearwater, Florida.
Plaintiff was informed that the Scientology senior management had discovered
that the New OT VII level of Scientology had been delivered and applied
erroneously and that its results on the "public" were in some unspecified
way defective and he could, thereby, be suffering life-threatening defects
himself. However, Plaintiff was denied entry to the briefing by Captain
Miscavige, and permission to read the related publication, even though
he had, in fact, paid for and completed the New OT VII and New OT VIII
levels.
36. Contrary to the misrepresentations and material non-disclosures,
and the writings and teachings of Hubbard and his adherents, including
KSW #1, Defendants did not solve the major personal "ruin" that Plaintiff
had described to Defendants, nor cure his homosexuality, notwithstanding
25 years of avid dedication, the expenditure of over half a million dollars
in actual "fixed donations" of money, the participation in innumerable
hours of auditing, processing and training in exclusively Scientology techniques,
the expenditure of skill and labor in the employ of the Scientology enterprise,
and his eventual ascent to becoming one of the approximately 1,200 elite
Scientologists who had undergone the extensive range of auditing from "introductory
sessions" through to Operating Thetan Level 8 ("New OT VIII"). Moreover,
in the representations made by LRH in DMSMH, particularly the chapter entitled
"The Clear," detailed description is given of the qualities possessed by
a "clear." Plaintiff was determined to have attained the purported
state of "clear" in 1979 and has since discovered that he did not receive
the promised benefits. In particular: poor eyesight, recall
and "aberrations" persisted. The "clear" Plaintiff was clearly not
"clear" as per the LRH definition of that term.
COUNT TWO
(Concurrent Practice of Other "Religions")
37. Defendants expressly represented to Plaintiff in 1976, and
have represented to the public at large since then, that one does not have
to give up one's "other" religious beliefs in order to become a Scientologist
and that such "other" religious beliefs can be concurrently practiced consistently
with Scientology. In late 1996, while attempting to obtain "eligibility"
as set forth above, one Danny Keogh learned that Plaintiff still maintained
Christian beliefs, as he had before joining Scientology in 1973.
Mr. Keogh reported this matter to Lieutenant Rathbun, one of Scientology's
most senior international officials, who then personally subjected Plaintiff
to a "religious deprogramming of Christian Belief."
38. Defendants' attempts to religiously deprogram Plaintiff took
place in two "interviews" or interrogations, using Scientology's device
called the E-Meter as a lie detector. Lieutenant Rathbun conducted
the religious deprogramming as a harsh coercive interrogation which had
the basic intent of forcing Plaintiff to give up his Christian religious
faith in order to obtain RTC's "eligibility authorization" to see the secret
New OT VII "Inspector General" document.
39. During this "False Data Stripping" and "religious deprogramming",
Plaintiff asked Lieutenant Rathbun repeatedly if he could be misunderstanding
Hubbard's and RTC's intent as Plaintiff stated that he could not believe
that, in order to be able to continue in Scientology, he would have to
renounce his other, Christian, religious faith. Defendant was told
that he had not misunderstood and that anyone practicing any kind of "other"
religious faith would be shunned and ineligible to continue in Scientology
as it was considered an "illegal other practice" under RTC policies.
40. Defendants' religious deprogramming coupled with Defendants'
coercive indoctrination of Plaintiff led Plaintiff to falsely conclude
that his belief in Christianity had caused him to commit a punishable crime
against Defendants rendering him ineligible for more secret Scientology
courses until he recanted his "other" Christian religious beliefs.
COUNT THREE
(Inurement, Human Rights Abuses, Crime and Fraud)
41. At the time Plaintiff was recruited into Scientology, it
was represented, in essence, that Scientology was a peaceful, law abiding
organization that respected its members' rights and that monies given it
did not unlawfully inure to the benefit of any individuals. Those
representations were false and the non-disclosures material. The
misrepresentations were part of an elaborate scheme and artifice to obtain
money and assets by creating organizations for handling, inter alia, physiological/
psychosomatic conditions as described above and for allegedly religious
tax-exempt purposes and, subsequently, ordering the payment of such assets
for Commodore Hubbard's personal use and subsequently the personal use
of his successors and the inurement to the benefit of certain celebrity
Scientology members such as Tom Cruise and John Travolta.
42. Contrary to the material misrepresentations, and material
non-disclosures, of Defendants and their agents, upon which Plaintiff reasonably
relied to his detriment and damage, Plaintiff has, among other things,
discovered the following wrongful conduct by Defendants: (a) That
the corporations and churches of Scientology are not a bona fide legitimate
religion but a vast money making invasive and subversive political movement,
commercial enterprise and criminal organization that has perpetrated a
fraud on the Plaintiff; (b) That Defendants were engaged in the operation
of a para-military, and politically subversive organization engaged, among
other things, in the denial of the civil rights, and the human rights,
of the Plaintiff; (c) That Defendants had maintained a totalitarian-like
compartmentalization within the Scientology enterprise in order to prevent
Plaintiff discovering the real truth regarding the actual nature of the
Scientology enterprise and the material non-disclosures that Defendants
withheld from the Plaintiff; (d) That Defendants recruited and used celebrities,
especially John Travolta, to further their frauds and crimes against the
Plaintiff as set forth herein; (e) That Plaintiff had a "direct line to
Source", i.e., Commodore Hubbard, and that the letters he received "from
Ron" [Hubbard] were genuine when in fact they were not; (f) That Defendants
had engaged in fraud in not telling Plaintiff about the criminal history
and massive criminal activities of Department 20 of the Guardian's Office,
now OSA. Defendants subsequently claimed that these criminal activities
had been conducted by a small unit within the Guardian's office and that
all persons responsible for this criminal conduct, such as Defendant Moxon
who was an unindicted co-conspirator in the same, had been expelled from
Scientology. Plaintiff has recently learned that this was not true;
(g) That Defendants had engaged in fraud in not telling Plaintiff of the
real truth regarding LRH's background, illicit drug use, psychiatric drug
use, the abuse of his wives and children, abuse of his followers, abuse
of the legal system, criminal convictions, money laundering through the
R.R.F., and the "suspicious" circumstances, and fraudulent conduct, preceding,
surrounding and following his death; (h) Defendants further engaged in
fraud by not telling Plaintiff, at the time of his recruitment or thereafter,
that they maintained special schools, and "cadet org" facilities, where
children were coercively indoctrinated, subject to substandard living conditions
and diet, subjected to hard labor, indoctrinated with LRH's study tech
to their academic disadvantage, subjected to sexual and other abuse that
was not timely or properly remedied and punished by Defendants; (i) That
Defendants had engaged in fraud in not advising Plaintiff of the full extent
of the Rehabilitation Project Force, alleged Scientology-related deaths,
suicides and financial frauds and Scientology's past criminal convictions,
public investigations, lawsuits and other anti-social activities and conduct
in violation of the Constitutional and civil rights of both its own members
and its critics; (j) Defendants also failed to ensure that its celebrity
spokespersons and recruiters were fully and properly briefed, informed
and knowledgeable as to all of the activities of the Scientology enterprise
as alleged herein before permitting and/or requiring them to make misleading
public statements and/or representations in support of Scientology, many
of which were reasonably relied upon by Plaintiff to his manifest damage
and detriment; (k) That contrary to their misrepresentations, Defendants
do use hypnosis, brainwashing, mind control and other mentally manipulative
and coercive indoctrination techniques; (l) That Defendant(s) omitted to
tell Plaintiff that it obtained IRS Section 501(c)(3) tax-exempt status
through intimidation, misuse of his monies contributed to Defendants, the
withholding and hiding of relevant and requested documents, the use of
private investigators, blackmail, and other matters; (m) That Defendants
had misused monies that Plaintiff contributed to and donated to them by
engaging in criminal conduct, fraudulent conduct, tax fraud, financial
fraud, loan fraud, and credit card fraud; (n) That Defendants also failed
to disclose to Plaintiff that Scientologists may not, per Scientology policy,
testify without bias or truthfully against the interests of a Scientologist
or Scientology; (o) That contrary to the Defendants' representations, express
and implied, to Plaintiff, Defendants engaged in the systematic abuse of
families and children and prohibited all Sea Org staff members ("staffers")
at the Flag Land Base in Clearwater, Florida, and elsewhere from having
children, and ordered woman to have abortions, even if they were married
and wished to have children, under threat of expulsion from the Sea Org;
(p) That Defendants misused Plaintiff's contributions and fixed donations
in connection with their claims to "Clear the Planet," create "an ethical
society" and a "world without crime and drugs" and failed to timely disclose
to him that "Clearing the Planet" meant ruling the World, eliminating and/or
exterminating critics or opponents of Scientology and that an "ethical"
planet meant one ruled only and exclusively according to Scientology practices
and further that "criminals" were those who were impeding Scientology's
worldwide takeover; (q) That contrary to Defendants' claims, the use of
the E-Meter and the practice of auditing was a dangerous and potentially
life-threatening fraud; (r) That Defendants engaged in misrepresentations
and material omissions to Plaintiff, in connection with the use of portions
of his monies and donations for the activities of OSA, lawyers principally
being Defendant Moxon, and private investigators against former Scientologists,
critics of Scientology and the like; (s) That contrary to Defendants' claims
to Plaintiff, Scientology does not work as claimed and the "Bridge to Total
Freedom," from the Personality Test through New OT VIII, and all related
writings such as Dianetics, Scientology, A World Religion Emerges in the
Space Age, What is Scientology?, and all of the so-called Advanced Technology,
or upper levels, are a secular fraud despite Defendants' contrary representations,
and material non-disclosures, made to Plaintiff; (t) That in violation
of U.S. Federal Court injunctions, and contrary to their express representations
to Plaintiff that Defendants were law abiding entities and peaceful citizens,
Defendants were engaged in the unlawful practice of medicine through various
of LRH's policies, practices and procedures, such as NOTS 34 and the related
use of the E-Meter, and that these activities had been fraudulently cloaked
with sham religious claims in order to prevent and evade government regulation,
prohibition and penalty; (u) That Defendants' material non-disclosures
to Plaintiff, involved among other things, their policy and practice of
preventing his exposure to any materials and information critical of Scientology
including "entheta press," thus delaying his discovery of the Scientology
enterprise being a international commercial enterprise and political movement
maintaining the post-founding pretense of religiosity in order to operate
tax-free in countries where it was convenient to do so. In such manner,
Defendants ordered Plaintiff not to read or otherwise access materials
that may have otherwise permitted him to discover the frauds and other
wrongful conduct alleged herein; (v) That, among other things, Defendants
prevented Plaintiff from timely learning that: LRH had been found
by a California court to be "a pathological liar when it comes to his history,
background and achievements"; (w) That various of the corporations and
churches of Scientology, and numerous executives, including LRH and Defendant
Mary Sue Hubbard, had been arrested, indicted and convicted of criminal
conduct in numerous countries (and that Defendant Moxon had been named
as a co-conspirator in some of the same activities). That civil judgments
for fraud and other tortious conduct had been entered against various of
the corporations and churches of Scientology in numerous courts in various
countries. That various governments had investigated Scientology,
issued damning reports, public statements condemning it and had restricted
or banned its activities and representations. That each of the above
enumerated facts was known to Defendants and each of them, and at all times
material hereto were hidden from Plaintiff by said Defendants. Had
Defendants permitted Plaintiff to access these various judicial, official
investigation, legislative and executive branch and other pronouncements
as to the fraudulent and criminal nature of the policies and practices
of the Scientology enterprise, he would not have suffered the deprivation
of civil and human rights, and the financial exploitation and destruction,
that he endured for nearly 25 years.
43. Defendants' criminal and fraudulent conduct directed at Plaintiff,
between 1973 and 1997, also included, but was not limited to, the following
documents, policies, practices, procedures and activities which were material
non-disclosures, when Defendants' recruited the Plaintiff: (a) The
HCOB titled "The By-Passed Case" written by L. Ron Hubbard and denoted
as "Top Secret"; (b) The document written on May 2, 1991 that arbitrarily
stripped the Plaintiff of all "O.T. status" without any recourse.
Plaintiff had paid a great deal of money (approximately $500,000.00) to
Defendants for the "O.T." levels and then Defendants publicly canceled
his attainment of them without due compensation; (c) The application, by
the "Sea Org," of LRH's directive of (circa) 1976: "THIS IS OUR PLANET,
MOVE IN!" The Defendants' goal of "taking over the Planet" and imposing
a worldwide totalitarian Scientology government upon it was not disclosed
to Plaintiff when Defendants recruited him; (d) Specifically, by way of
example only, Defendants and others have misrepresented to Plaintiff that
certain of Hubbard's books such as Dianetics, Battlefield Earth and Mission
Earth, were on the New York Times' best seller list at the number one point
for several weeks as a result of their widespread popularity when the true
facts were that Defendants carried out a secret operation using Norman
Starkey, Ronnie Miscavige and other personnel from throughout the Scientology
enterprise, and using monies Plaintiff had contributed to, to purchase
those books back from retail book stores as false and fraudulent "customers"
to create a false front and fraudulent claim of a best seller when in fact
the book(s) was a poor seller; (e) The action, by Defendants, of prescribing
excessive and dangerous doses of niacin and vitamins during the "Hubbard
Purification Rundown". In this program, in 1979, under the supervision
of the Scientology case supervisor, the Plaintiff was instructed to take,
over a period of approximately three weeks, such daily doses as 10,000
mg. (40 pills of 250 mg. each for the first three days) of vitamin B1 and
up to 5 grams (5,000 mg. of niacin, etc.) and subjected to no less than
five hours a day in a sauna at a constant high temperature. The promise
to Plaintiff, in the Hubbard Communications Office Bulletin (HCOB) on the
program administered by Plaintiff, was that it would make Plaintiff survive
the Third World War. However, Plaintiff suffered hardship and barely
survived the hazardous doses of sauna and vitamins, all resulting from
misrepresentations and material non-disclosures of Defendants; (f) The
practice, by Defendants, of creating a moronic and/or docile permanent
dependency on themselves by Scientology's followers through the methods
of inner esoteric language such as in the "Technical Dictionary" and "Management
(Admin) Dictionary," elimination (by indoctrination and by "auditing" and
training) of a follower's sociability in the "wog" (non-Scientology) world,
and by alienation of other spheres and support structures of society that
otherwise followers might enjoy in the absence of Commodore Hubbard's critical
tirades in his tapes, policy letters, issues and bulletins; (g) The use,
by Defendants, on many occasions of the "eligibility" process by RTC to
degrade, vilify, control and secure contribution and blind loyalty of the
Plaintiff. As part of this Plaintiff was subjected to an emotionally
wrecking religious deprogramming by Lieutenant Rathbun and RTC; (h) The
fraudulent series of actions and omissions by RTC and other Defendants
in the refusal to allow Plaintiff to have access to the information in
the "secret" 13 page document written by Defendants' "Inspector General"
on the defects of the delivery, practice, results and techniques of "New
OT VII." Plaintiff alleges fraud and misrepresentation in the delivery
of his own "New OT VII" which caused the most severe emotional, spiritual
and mental suffering in the life of the Plaintiff from 1982 onwards; (i)
The fraudulent practices of the IAS where it ignores, in practice, the
advertised goals it is supposed to have, and instead used funds from the
trusting Plaintiff to lobby local, state and the federal governments, to
antagonize foreign governments, such as Germany and Sweden for example,
to feed its own false image with expensive "public relations" and generally
create new "wars" for Defendants to use to extract further donations from
Plaintiff and its membership generally. Moreover, Defendants failed
to disclose to Plaintiff that the IAS took over one million dollars from
Gerhard Haag, in Germany, to "protect and defend" Scientologists.
Haag was financially ruined, got no help from the I.A.S. and had to flee
to exile in Albania. As Haag was a major customer for Plaintiff's
paintings Plaintiff was thereby materially and extensively harmed by this
criminal and fraudulent conduct of the IAS which had secured his paying
membership with representations of behavior to the contrary; (j) Defendants
inducing Plaintiff to pay for their Ministers Course, which requires only
several days of study but entitled Plaintiff to wear a clerical collar,
perform weddings and to call himself a Reverend. After Plaintiff
had assisted with the unsuccessful defense of Commodore Hubbard on charges
of fraud in 1978, Defendants arbitrarily stripped him of his status as
a Scientology reverend. Since Plaintiff had to be a "minister" to
use an E-meter at that time, he could no longer perform the functions of
this post at the Paris Org. Plaintiff wrote to LRH personally and
received a reply purportedly from Hubbard but which he has now learned
was not. Plaintiff was then advised that although he could remain
in Scientology, he would have to pay a $30,000 "freeloader's debt" in order
to do so; (k) Defendants, through "WISE's", accepting Plaintiff's funds
(of at least $6,000) and then failing to deliver any service of commensurate
value; (l) Defendants' fraud upon Plaintiff, whereby it was broadly advertised
that "OT VIII CAN ONLY BE DELIVERED ON A SHIP" so Plaintiff donated monies
to contribute to the purchase of the M.V. Freewinds. Contrary to
Defendants' representations as to why they needed vast amount of funds
to purchase the M.V. Freewinds, the IAS' real intention was just to get
off the land and into international waters so as not to be held accountable
for its fraud, other illegal and wrongful conduct and "war tactics"; (m)
Defendants' failure to disclose the heavily armed, fortified and dangerous
character of the Scientology base at Gilman Hot Springs, the military assault
weapons and other armaments on the M.V. Freewinds, and the assault armaments
at other Scientology locations.
COUNT FOUR
(Hubbard's Achievements and Character)
44. Throughout the period that the Plaintiff was a member of the
Church of Scientology, and from the Fall of 1973 until at least the Fall
of 1997, numerous written fraudulent representations about LRH were made
to the Plaintiff. These written representations were included in
numerous books and publications written by or concerning LRH which Defendants
required Plaintiff to read. These representations included that:
(a) LRH is the sole "Source" of Scientology writings and teachings; (b)
LRH was a nuclear physicist, with degrees from certain universities, including
being a graduate of George Washington University, who had conducted over
thirty years of scientific research into the nature and causes of disease,
the nature of the mind, and the nature of human organizations; (c) LRH
had served for four years in combat in the United States Navy during World
War II, that he commanded a corvette squadron, that he was one of the most
highly decorated officers during the war, that he was severely wounded
in combat and received the Purple Heart, was crippled, blinded, twice pronounced
medically dead and that he cured himself with Dianetics; (d) LRH was sent
by the U.S. Naval Intelligence to break up a black magic ring in California;
(e) LRH had traveled for years in the Far East and Asia, studying with
great Eastern religious leaders and that he was able, in part, to formulate
Scientology because of his knowledge of the East; (f) LRH's health was
perfect as a result of personal applications of the principles of Dianetics
and Scientology; (g) LRH was a person of unblemished and unquestionable
integrity, motivated solely by benevolent purposes, with no interest in
exploiting Scientology to make money for himself; (h) Scientology is scientifically
proven to provide an array of benefits, including a higher I.Q., a cure
for neuroses, criminality, poor eyesight, insanity, psychosomatic ills,
homosexuality and drug dependence; (i) Scientology's goods and services
are offered on a satisfaction or money back basis; (j) Scientology has
scientifically guaranteed to cure, among other things, asthma, arthritis,
rheumatism, toothaches, pneumonia, colds and color blindness; (k) Scientology
corporations, and agents of such corporations, never committed any criminal
acts or any acts in violation of the policies and rulings of the Internal
Revenue Service and that no part of the net earnings of any Scientology
organizations inured to the benefit of LRH or his agents, Defendants or
any of Scientology's celebrity members such as John Travolta, Tom Cruise
and Nicole Kidman; (l) None of the policies, practices, actions or procedures
of any Scientology organization were contrary to law or to public policy
and that no part of the earnings of any Scientology organization was used
for illegal purposes; (m) As stated by LRH in the pamphlet "What Your Fees
Buy," it was also represented that LRH was never paid for the "researches
of Dianetics and Scientology," that he forgave the Scientology organizations
the $13.5 million that they owed him for services rendered, that he did
not collect his 10% or his royalty fees for lectures, loans, and out-of-pocket
expenses that the Scientology organizations owed him, that he donated the
royalties of his first book, a best seller, to the Scientology organizations,
that he did not collect the paperback royalties on that book, and that
he drew "less than an org. staff member (e.g., then $30 per week)."
45. The above representations, and others set forth elsewhere
herein, are false. In fact, inter alia, Plaintiff is informed and
believes and based thereon alleges as follows: (a) LRH received a
failing grade in the only nuclear physics course that he took at George
Washington University and was dismissed for poor academic performance after
attending for one and one-half semesters; (b) The only degree LRH ever
received was from a mail-order college which he created and/or owned in
the early 1950's; (c) LRH did not serve in combat during World War II and
was relieved of duty on at least three occasions while serving in the United
States Navy; (d) LRH was not assigned to break up Aleister Crowley's black
magic ring in California, but was himself a member of that occult group
and practiced ritual sexual acts in it; (e) LRH never commanded a corvette
squadron; (f) At the end of his military service, LRH was a psychiatric
in-patient at Oak Knoll Military Hospital and seeking a navy disability
pension; (g) LRH was never pronounced dead, never received any war wounds,
was not crippled and blinded and did not receive the Purple Heart or any
other decorations for bravery or injury; (h) LRH had, from at least 1945
to January 1986, suffered from chronic duodenal ulcers, arthritis, bursitis,
skeletal weakness, diabetes, pulmonary embolisms and a host of other diseases
and ailments; (i) LRH married his second wife, Sara Northrop, while still
married to his first wife, Margaret Louise Grubb; LRH practiced ritual
abortions on both his first and second wives, attempted to murder his second
wife and lied on camera to Granada television about the number of wives
he had had; (j) LRH was arrested and convicted of petty theft in San Luis
Obispo in 1947; (k) The Dianetics and Scientology corporations formed by
LRH were not formed for benevolent purposes but were conceived for the
purpose of making money through deceit, deception, fraud and misrepresentation.
46. Defendants knew or should have known the representations
set forth herein were false, and undisputedly knew they were false following
the decision in Church of Scientology v. Armstrong, Los Angeles Superior
Court Case No. C 420153 ("Armstrong I") on June 20, 1984, and the decision
in Re B&G (Wards) by English Justice Mr. Latey, but permitted those
fraudulent misrepresentations to continue to be made to the Plaintiff from
1984 to Fall 1997. Defendants, their agents and employees, made said
representations with the intent that the Plaintiff act and rely upon the
representations made. Among other things, representations made in
LRH's pamphlet "What Your Fees Buy" were deliberately misleading and false
in the following particulars: (a) ASI skimmed millions of dollars
from the Scientology organizations for LRH. From March 1982 to October
1982 alone, LRH's personal estate within ASI grew from $10 million to over
$40 million; (b) ASI billed the Scientology organizations for services
it allegedly performed for the Scientology organizations, including management;
(c) In 1982-1984, Captain Miscavige and RTC extracted millions of dollars
from Scientology Mission Holders and deprived them of their livelihood
by using his "Finance Police" and Sea Org personnel at and after the San
Francisco "Mission Holders Conference"; (d) LRH collected the royalties
he claimed he had forgiven from the Scientology organizations. These
included paying LRH for the use of St. Hill Manor in England, buying LRH's
personal possessions for a future museum, paying LRH to set up a museum
where he and his family had once lived, and paying royalties for films,
course materials and tapes LRH had created including the OT III tape.
LRH diverted over $100 million from Scientology organizations to bank accounts
controlled by him between 1972 and 1981; (e) In March 1982, LRH received
over $200,000 in royalties each week from the Scientology organizations.
This figure increased until some weeks LRH received over $1 million per
week; (f) It was LRH himself who required Captain Miscavige and ASI to
find ways for him to get as much money as he could from the Scientology
organizations. At the same time, he required ASI to hide his receipt
of these monies so that the Scientology organizations that had non-profit
status would not lose their status due to inurement; (g) Millions of dollars
in money from Scientology organizations were transferred, often by "messengers"
carrying millions of dollars in cash, to bank accounts which LRH controlled
in Liechtenstein, Switzerland, and Luxembourg. Receipts and documents
"legalizing" these "transfers" were drawn up after the fact.
COUNT FIVE
(Confidentiality of Files)
47. Between Fall 1973 and Fall 1997, Defendants, their agents
and employees made written representations to the Plaintiff that all information
conveyed by a member of Scientology to the Church of Scientology during
a Scientology process known as an "o/w write-up" (an overts and withholds
write-up) or "auditing" was to be strictly confidential and was never to
be revealed to anyone except the member's auditor or case supervisor.
Under no circumstances, the Plaintiff was informed in writing, would information
disclosed in auditing ever be used against the person providing the information.
The information obtained was taken down in files or folders (hereinafter
referred to as auditing or "PC" files) called "preclear," "PC," "processing,"
"auditing," "confessional," and/or "ethics" files.
48. In 1990, as part of Plaintiff's volunteered efforts to do
better, he participated in a confession of sins with the hope of unburdening
his conscience and with the trust that such would be kept within the bounds
of the claimed priest-penitent privilege and confidentiality represented
in LRH's writings to exist within the Scientology enterprise.
49. Contrary to Defendants' representations as to the confidentiality
of Scientology processing, and the claimed priest-penitent privilege, Plaintiff's
"confessional" statements were disseminated from the M.V. Freewinds to
the Celebrity Center in Paris, France. This was done for the purpose
of causing Plaintiff's Scientology friends to "disconnect" from him, to
not purchase his art work and thereby to destroy his business, and to otherwise
engage in conduct contrary to the express representations and material
non-disclosures Defendants had made to Plaintiff throughout his 25-year
relationship with the Defendants.
50. In late May 1997, the President of Flag Service Organization,
Mrs. Mary Voegeding, threatened Plaintiff by telling him that the contents
of his recently volunteered "religious" confessions "just might come out
publicly" if he left the Scientology organization.
51. At all relevant times prior to Defendants' attempted blackmail
and extortion of Plaintiff, Defendants had represented to Plaintiff that
these matters were all subject to the priest-penitent privilege and that
they were contained in his "pre-clear" and "ethics" folder which were confidential
and which would not be released or misused in any way. Plaintiff
relied upon these fraudulent misrepresentations to his damage and detriment
because Defendants concealed from Plaintiff their demonstrable history
and practice of "culling" parishioners Pre-Clear and Ethics folders, and
using such information for their own purposes relating to the coercion,
control and/or punishment of Defendants' members or former members.
52. From at least 1969 until the present, Defendants have had
a secret written policy to extract the confidential information from "PC"
files and use it for purposes of blackmail and extortion, in violation
of the above representations. This policy was written by Defendant
Mary Sue Hubbard and has been extensively implemented by Defendants.
Although, a material matter to Plaintiff, Defendants' failed to disclose
the existence of this practice to the Plaintiff. Defendants, through
Defendant Moxon, are now further using such confidential information in
Reveillere v. Pattinson, O.C.S.C. Case No. 800981.
COUNT SIX
(Fair Game)
53. At various times herein between Fall 1973 and the present
day, the Defendants, and in particular Defendant Moxon, as part of a conspiracy
to obstruct justice or otherwise control and silence dissenters and opponents
such as the Plaintiff herein, practiced what is known as the "Fair Game"
policy. Pursuant to this practice, an enemy of Scientology "may be
deprived of property of injured by any means, by any Scientologist, without
any discipline of a Scientologist. He may be tricked, sued or lied
to, or destroyed." Despite public disavowal of the term "Fair Game"
(for conceded public relations purposes), Defendants retain the policy
itself in force and practice. Accordingly, Defendants, and particularly
Defendant Moxon, in concert with others, continue to engage in illegal,
outrageous, oppressive, tortious and harassing activities against those
who they deem to be "enemies" of Scientology. The enterprise considers
itself able to carry out its pattern of illegal activity against the Plaintiff
and others, with the knowledge that only rarely will witnesses dare to
come forward and testify against Defendants.
54. The Defendants' Fair Game policies and practices include
"declaring" its own members, or non-members opposing Scientology, "suppressive
persons" by way of "suppressive person declares" and stating that they
are subject to "Fair Game". On October 20, 1998, Defendant Moxon
further implemented Defendants' "fair game policies and practices" by filing
fellow OSA staffer Michel Reveillere's retaliatory lawsuit against Plaintiff
(Reveillere v. Pattinson, O.C.S.C. Case No. 800981).
55. Defendants' "Fair Game" policy was not disclosed to Plaintiff
when he was recruited by Scientology and this was a material non-disclosure
by Defendants. The "Fair Game" policy directs that any individual
or employee who expresses a lack of loyalty to Defendants is open to any
form of harassment, economic ruin, or subject to any covert plan designed
to cause economic ruin, or subject to any covert plan designed to cause
emotional or physical harm and/or financial ruin. The plans include
the destruction of a person's business, reputation, family, and/or framing
of false charges of criminal acts. Throughout Plaintiff's affiliation
with Defendants, he was constantly psychologically tormented with threats
of becoming "Fair Game" within the context of the specialized meaning given
the term by Defendants. At certain times during the course of his
affiliation with Defendants, Plaintiff was extensively subjected to "Fair
Game" and ruined financially and vocationally at the hands of, and for
the benefit and unjust enrichment of Defendants and continues to be subjected
to Fair Game by Defendant Moxon.
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56. Defendants' fraudulent misrepresentations to Plaintiff, as
set forth herein, were continued through a LRH policy prohibiting Plaintiff
from discussing his "case" with other Scientologists and thereby prevented
him from learning of the experiences, abuse, deprivation and frauds being
perpetrated upon other victims of Scientology.
57. Defendants thereby intentionally caused Plaintiff to delay
discovering the fraud they were perpetrating upon him by manipulating him
into believing that any failures of Scientology processing and courses
to deliver what had been represented, and not disclosed, were the result
of his own mistakes and errors and not an experience shared with others
and which was a Scientology crime to discuss with others. Plaintiff's
manipulation and isolation was aggravated by Defendants' use of so-called
Scientology celebrities to engage in fraudulent misrepresentations to the
public and other Scientology members.
58. Contrary to Defendants' material and fraudulent misrepresentations
and material non-disclosures, including but not limited to "The Role of
Earth" tape upon which Plaintiff reasonably relied, the "Bridge to Total
Freedom," and all of Defendants' writings, teachings and so-called upper
levels (OTI through OT VIII), are a form of "bait-and-switch" fraud in
that what Plaintiff was told he was buying turned out to be something different
and materially much more expensive. Had Defendants disclosed these
matters to Plaintiff at the time they recruited him he would never have
purchased their "courses", auditing and cure or "handling" of his homosexuality
or "ruin".
59. At the time these misrepresentations and non-disclosures
were made to Plaintiff, Defendants herein knew, or should have known, that
those representations were not true. Defendants knew, or should have
known, that they are not qualified and/or properly licensed to render medical
treatment or advice, and that "auditing" does not prevent or cure disease,
illness, or alter one's sexual orientation and/or preference and that they
had been judicially enjoined from making such representations.
60. The representations, misrepresentations and omissions were
made, with the intent to induce Plaintiff to rely thereon, and enter into
a relationship with the Defendants, expend enormous sums of money for the
benefit of Defendants, to travel interstate and internationally, to endure
exhaustion, coercion, trickery, quackery, brainwashing, hypnosis, and manipulation,
and to embrace and espouse the processes and practices of Defendants, and
each of them.
61. Plaintiff reasonably relied upon the above-mentioned misrepresentations,
and material non-disclosures, as a direct result of the success with which
Defendants were able to carry out their activities of brainwashing, mind
control, hypnosis, exhaustion, coercion, trickery, quackery and manipulation.
62. If Plaintiff had known that part of the money he gave to
Scientology was being fraudulently diverted to LRH personally, or that
the Defendants were involved in overt criminal and fraudulent acts, and
activity to harass and coerce agencies of the government and citizens of
the state, partially through Defendant Moxon, he would not have paid said
money or provided said labor and he would not have disclosed confidential
personal information to the Defendants.
63. In relying upon Defendants' fraudulent misrepresentations,
Plaintiff was damaged in the amount of monies paid, and for labor provided,
all of which will be ascertained according to proof but which exceed $500,000.
64. The aforementioned acts of Defendants were willful, wanton,
despicable, malicious and oppressive and justify the awarding of exemplary
and punitive damages in an amount subject to proof at the time of trial
of this matter.
SECOND CAUSE OF ACTION (Constructive Fraud)
Against All Defendants and Does 1-10, Inclusive
65. Plaintiff realleges and incorporates herein each and every
allegation set forth herein above as though fully set forth herein.
66. In or about Fall 1973, Plaintiff read the book Dianetics
by LRH. Dianetics purports to explicate the "modern science of mental
health" as per its title. That book expressly states that Dianetics
is an "exact science," comparable to, but simpler than, physics or chemistry.
The book Dianetics refers to a process known as "auditing." Auditing
is a means by which an individual applies the "science" of Dianetics.
The individual applying the "science" of Dianetics is referred to in the
book as a "patient."
67. The book explains that the "science" of Dianetics can be
used by a Dianetics practitioner, who is referred to as an "auditor," to
cure the "patient" (also referred to as a "pre-clear") of certain illnesses,
including "perversion," which Dianetics defines as including, inter alia,
"homosexuality, lesbianism . . ." The illness of perversion, and
Dianetics' approach to curing it, are said by the author, LRH, to be "a
scientific fact." The book read by Plaintiff and entitled Dianetics,
The Modern Science of Mental Health, A Handbook of Dianetic Therapy was
published by the Hubbard College of Scientology.
68. In Fall 1973, induced by the claims made in Dianetics, to
the effect that Dianetics and Scientology, described in Dianetics as the
application of the science of Dianetics, offered a cure to the "illness"
of homosexuality, Plaintiff visited the Scientology location nearest him,
where he then lived in Paris, France. Plaintiff was greeted at the
Scientology enterprise location in Paris, then a small converted residential
apartment, by Colette Byasson, to whom Plaintiff expressed an interest
in learning more about the "science" of Dianetics. Ms. Byasson gave
Plaintiff what was purported to be a "personality test," which she invited
Plaintiff to complete. Plaintiff completed the personality test and
returned it to Ms. Byasson within a matter of one to two days.
69. When Plaintiff returned the personality test to Ms. Byasson,
she "graded" it while Plaintiff waited, and reviewed Plaintiff’s scores
with him. Plaintiff scored low on a number of categories, which were
represented to Plaintiff by Ms. Byasson to be "scientifically determined"
categories. Ms. Byasson told Plaintiff that such low scores could
be accounted for only by problems in the life of the test-taker.
Ms. Byasson asked Plaintiff what problems he was experiencing at that time.
Plaintiff informed Ms. Byasson that he was suffering shame, embarrassment,
and fear because of his homosexual sexual orientation.
70. Ms. Byasson informed Plaintiff that he could begin a scientifically
proven cure for his illness of "perversion" if he paid for and took Dianetics
and Scientology courses. Ms. Byasson further informed Plaintiff that
the cure would work only if he provided her with a statement acknowledging
his "illness," and stated that Scientology was scientifically proven to
be the only means by which Plaintiff could ever by cured of his illness.
71. At the end of his first Scientology course, Plaintiff was
informed by a Scientology staff person that he could partake of the scientifically
proven cure for his "illness" only by paying for in advance and taking
a second course. Plaintiff had difficulty doing the course "Student
Hat" as it had nothing to do with his "ruin." In order to prevent
Plaintiff from ceasing the course, the Scientology staff person would remind
Plaintiff of his "illness" of perversion, and would again tell Plaintiff
that the sole means by which he could be cured was through continued study
of the science of Dianetics, as applied by the Scientology enterprise.
72. Upon the completion of the reading course described in the
preceding paragraph, Plaintiff was told that he would have to pay in advance
for, and take, another course. During each of the courses taken by
Plaintiff, he was told that Dianetics and Scientology were the only means
by which he could be cured of his "illness of perversion." Plaintiff
was also repeatedly told, during his first several months of course-taking,
that Dianetics and Scientology were the only scientifically proven cure
for his "illness."
73. At no time during the first year of Plaintiff’s involvement
with Scientology was he ever told that Scientology was, or purported to
be, a religion. Indeed, Plaintiff was repeatedly told that Scientology
was a rigorously tested science, much like physics or chemistry.
Plaintiff was never told that he was required to exercise faith in order
to be cured of his alleged illness, nor was he ever told during his first
year of course-taking that Scientology provided a spiritual or spiritually-based
cure for the "illness"; rather, he was only told that Scientology was a
modern science with scientifically proven cures as set forth above.
74. After nearly one year of paying for and taking Scientology
courses, "disconnecting" from the outside world critical of Scientology
or Hubbard, and spending the majority of his income in support of the promised
"scientific" cure for Plaintiff’s "illness," Plaintiff was nearly isolated
from any person not connected with Scientology. Only after Plaintiff
had become psychologically dependent on Scientology through a year-long
process of brainwashing did Scientology personnel reveal to Plaintiff that
Scientology purported to be a religion but only for conveniently false
and ulterior purposes.
75. Upon revealing Scientology to be a purported religion, expressly
for public relations, regulatory and tax purposes, Plaintiff was informed
by Hank Laarhuis and Ms. Byasson that he would be condemned to misery,
unhappiness, illness, and personal failure unless he continued to pay for
expensive Scientology courses and auditing with said e-meter. This proposition
was also reiterated in writings and directives issued by LRH and also by
LRH's successors as head of the Scientology enterprise, Captain David Miscavige,
Lieutenant Mark Rathbun, Sea Org registrars on many occasions, and Mary
Voegeding. Plaintiff’s reliance upon these statements were reasonable
in that, at the time they were made to Plaintiff, he had been brainwashed
by Defendants.
76. The statements made by LRH, Captain Miscavige, and their
agents, as set forth herein above were false in that neither Dianetics
nor Scientology have ever produced "scientifically proven" cures to any
illness, nor been scientifically proven to change an individual’s sexual
orientation, and in that neither LRH nor his successors ever believed or
understood Dianetics or Scientology to be either a science or a religion,
but in fact simply manufactured the appearance of a science or a religion
for the purpose of fraudulently cloaking their secular, commercial enterprise
and thereby falsely and fraudulently enticing persons to serve as unwitting
customers of that enterprise.
77. The statements made by LRH, Captain Miscavige, and their
agents, as set forth herein above were known by them to be false at the
time they were made, as set forth in the immediately preceding paragraph,
as demonstrated, inter alia, by: (a) In 1973, when Plaintiff first
visited the Scientology facility in Paris, France, he asked Ms. Byasson
whether Scientology and/or Dianetics purported to be a religion.
Plaintiff specifically informed Ms. Byasson, who was acting at all times
as an agent of the Defendants, that he did not wish to become involved
with a religion or a cult. Ms. Byasson assured Plaintiff that Scientology
was not a religion, nor a cult, but was in fact a science; (b) In 1976,
at the Fort Harrison Hotel in Clearwater, Florida, on occasions on which
local Clearwater officials, dignitaries and/or residents were being given
guided tours of the Scientology facility located within the hotel, officials
of the Scientology Guardian’s Office would arrange bogus "religious ceremonies"
to be viewed by such officials, dignitaries, and/or residents, explaining
in advance to those Scientologists participating in those sham ceremonies
that they had to "put on a show" for the purpose of tricking the individuals
observing the ceremonies that the enterprise located in the hotel was a
legitimate religious enterprise under the false name "United Churches."
78. The knowingly false statements made by Defendants, as set
forth above, were made for the purpose of inducing Plaintiff to pay them
money for bogus "courses" and "auditing" which payments by Plaintiff inured
to LRH and his successors' personal economic benefit. Plaintiff at
all times reasonably relied upon the statements of Defendants and their
agents, in that Plaintiff initially reasonably relied upon what appeared
to him to be a credible-sounding scientific therapy for "curing" him of
his sexual orientation. Plaintiff’s later reliance upon the Defendants’
continued statements that he could be cured of his "illness" through the
"religion" of Scientology was reasonable under the circumstance of his
having been brainwashed and made utterly psychologically dependent upon
Scientology.
79. In reasonably relying upon Defendants' fraudulent misrepresentations,
and material omissions, Plaintiff was damaged in the amount of monies paid,
and for labor provided, all of which will be ascertained according to proof
but which exceed $500,000.
80. The aforementioned acts of Defendants were willful, wanton,
despicable, malicious and oppressive and justify the awarding of exemplary
and punitive damages in an amount subject to proof at the time of trial
of this matter.
THIRD CAUSE OF ACTION (Unfair Business Practices)
Against All Defendants and Does 1-10
81. Plaintiff hereby realleges and reincorporates herein by reference
each and every allegation set forth herein above
82. Each and every Defendant, except those Defendants sued herein
only for declaratory relief, is a person, corporation, firm, partnership,
association, or organization within the meaning of California Business
and Professions Code §17201, and is subject to the provisions of §§17200-17209.
83. By engaging in the conduct described herein above, including,
but not limited to: (a) luring Plaintiff into a psychological reliance
upon Scientology and inducing him to pay money to Scientology by falsely
and fraudulently asserting that Scientology was a science akin to chemistry
or physics, offering "scientifically proven" cures for physical and medical
illness; (b) by falsely representing to Plaintiff, after he had become
brainwashed and dependent upon Scientology personnel, that Scientology
is a religion, and that the money paid by Plaintiff and others was solely
used for charitable and/or religious purposes, when in fact such money
was used by Defendants for purely commercial and secular purposes, sometimes
criminal or fraudulent ones too, from which they, and each of them, personally
benefited; (c) by wrongfully and fraudulently seizing and confiscating
the assets of the Mission Holders and other persons declared by Defendants
to be "Suppressive Persons" for the personal and corporate economic gain
of the Defendants herein, and each of them; and (d) by creating "shell"
corporations and hiding and shifting assets to avoid judgments as alleged
herein above for the purpose of preserving economic gains which have already
inured to the benefit of Defendants as part of their commercial and secular
enterprises which they falsely and fraudulently represent as religious;
Defendants have engaged in unlawful, unfair, or fraudulent business
practices within the meaning of the Business and Professions Code §§17200-17209.
84. As a direct, foreseeable, and proximate result of Defendants’,
and each of their, conduct, Plaintiff has lost over one half million dollars
in funds spent on fraudulent "courses" and "auditing," has lost thousands
of hours of wages during years in which he worked for Defendants herein
in their commercial enterprises for less than the statutory minimum wage,
or for no wage at all, and has incurred attorneys fees and costs, and suffered
other economic loss, in a sum according to proof.
85. Plaintiff is informed and believes, and thereon alleges,
that Defendants, and each of them, as a result of their unfair business
practices as described herein above, have reaped profits from Plaintiff
and others, which have inured to the Defendants, and each of their, economic
benefit.
86. Because of the fraudulent and unfair business practices of
Defendants, as set forth herein above, Plaintiff is entitled to: the disgorgement
and restitution of any monies, including any profits, obtained from Plaintiff
by Defendants as a result of their unfair business practices; the disgorgement
and restitution to other persons of any monies, including any profits,
obtained from such other persons by Defendants as a result of their unfair
business practices; the trebling of all such sums paid as restitution under
Business and Professions Code § 17082; attorneys fees and costs; interest
according to law; costs of suit; and any and all other relief which the
Court deems just and proper, including enjoining Defendants herein from
representing that Scientology is a religion, rather than a purely secular,
commercial, enterprise, and enjoining Defendants from failing to disclose
the secular purpose to which fees for "auditing" and "courses" are put.
FOURTH CAUSE OF ACTION (Breach Of Fiduciary Duty)
Against All Defendants And Does 1-10
87. Plaintiff refers to and incorporates by reference each and
every paragraph set forth above as though each were fully set forth herein.
88. When soliciting the Plaintiff to join Scientology, Defendants,
their agents and employees invited and expected Plaintiff to place his
trust in the Defendants and to come to them with his most personal and
intimate concerns and personal history. Plaintiff did indeed place
his confidence in the integrity of the Defendants and Defendants voluntarily
accepted such confidence. By encouraging Plaintiff to repose his
trust and confidence in their integrity, and by voluntarily accepting such
trust and confidence, Defendants assumed a fiduciary duty to the Plaintiff.
89. Plaintiff is informed and believes and based thereon alleges
as follows: Defendants breached their fiduciary duties to the Plaintiff,
among things, by: (a) Permitting a non-officer of the Scientology
Churches, LRH, to control and dominate the churches of Scientology; (b)
Failing to disclose to Scientology, and/or Plaintiff, that a non-officer
of the Scientology Churches controlled and dominated the Church of Scientology;
(c) Permitting money paid by the Plaintiff, and income earned through the
Plaintiff's labor, to be used to finance overtly criminal, unlawful, anti-social,
tortious and seditious operations and activities, many conducted by Defendant
Moxon, such as those identified in various paragraphs herein; (d) Permitting
Defendants Mary Sue Hubbard, Captain David Miscavige, and others to assume
dominion and control, under LRH's direction, of the Churches of Scientology's
assets and property without having corporate authority to do so; (e) Permitting
the transfer of millions of dollars of Scientology assets to LRH through
ASI and RRF without proper corporate authority; (f) Failing to disclose
the transfer of millions of dollars of Scientology assets to LRH through
ASI and RRF and doing so contrary to LRH's 1969 publication "What Your
Donations Buy"; (g) Failing to ensure that Scientology processes and practices,
including the Purification Rundown and New OT VII, were delivered to Plaintiff
in a proper and safe manner.
90. Defendants had a fiduciary duty to disclose the facts alleged
above and had they done so, Plaintiff would not have given a sum in excess
of one-half million dollars to the corporations and Churches of Scientology
or provided thousands of hours of unlawfully remunerated labor to the corporations
and Churches of Scientology. As a result of Defendants' breaches
of fiduciary duty, Plaintiff's money and labor was never used for the purposes
Plaintiff intended.
91. In reasonable reliance upon Defendants' fraudulent misrepresentations
and material non-disclosures, Plaintiff was damaged in the amount of monies
paid, and for labor provided, all of which will be ascertained according
to proof but which exceed $500,000.
92. The aforementioned acts of Defendants were willful, wanton,
despicable, malicious and oppressive and justify the awarding of exemplary
and punitive damages in an amount subject to proof at the time of trial
of this matter.
FIFTH CAUSE OF ACTION (False Imprisonment)
Against All Defendants and Does 1-10, Inclusive
93. Plaintiff refers to and incorporates by reference each and
every paragraph set forth above as though each were fully set forth herein.
94. In 1983, while Plaintiff was a student on a course at the
Celebrity Center Paris, France, he was taken from the course room, where
he was the only remaining student, and ordered to go into a basement room
where two naval uniformed members of LRH's para-military Sea Org (Andre
Meyer and Ms. Quenneher) were waiting for him. Defendants' agents
then locked the door of the basement room so that the Plaintiff could not
voluntarily leave and threatened that if he did not cooperate he would
be immediately expelled from the Church (by what is called a "Suppressive
Person Declare" which, in Plaintiff's then coercively manipulated mind,
was the worst fate that could befall him as a Scientologist).
95. Plaintiff was then involuntarily interrogated as part of
a Scientology secular process called "security checking", or "sec checking,"
which, when engaged in by more than one auditor (a Scientology term for
counselor), is colloquially known within Scientology as a "gang bang security
check" or "gang bang sec check." During this "gang bang sec check"
Plaintiff, having broken down in tears and having agreed to cooperate,
was interrogated (again on the E-Meter) about the most intimate and personal
aspects of his recent sexual life. He was forced to "confess" to
and finally, only when he had no more private information to provide, he
was allowed to leave the locked basement room and the premises of the Paris
Scientology Celebrity Center.
96. In June 1991, at the orders of Defendants, and at his own
personal expense, Plaintiff traveled from Paris, France to the M.V. Freewinds
in the Netherlands Antilles. There he was again held forcibly against
his will and additionally was forced to pay $7,400 for further Scientology
auditing that he could not afford at the time. Defendants even threatened
Plaintiff with the withholding of his passport from him until such time
as he paid the demanded amount of money. Plaintiff then tried to
retrieve his passport from the ship's "Port Captain's office" but his passport
was being held in the safe and he was not permitted to retrieve it until
such time as he paid the monies demanded and received the auditing processes
ordered by Defendants.
97. In June 1996, Defendants again held Plaintiff against his
will, and falsely imprisoned him, in the Scientology building known as
"Sand Castle Hotel" in Clearwater, Florida. Plaintiff was unlawfully
detained by two naval-uniformed officers of the para-military Sea Org and
was ordered to pay for further Scientology auditing before he would be
released.
98. When Plaintiff refused to borrow further monies to pay for
Scientology processing that was inconsistent with the O.T. status that
had been stripped away from him, the naval uniformed Sea Org officers refused
to let Plaintiff out of the room and physically blocked the exit door to
the reception area to prevent him from leaving of his own free will.
Plaintiff eventually escaped through an unlocked door, managed to get out
of the building and away from the uniformed Sea Org officers, who had been
imprisoning him against his will.
99. Defendants' conduct as set forth above was tortious and without
any applicable privilege. As a proximate result of the said acts
of Defendants, Plaintiff was injured in his health, strength and activity,
sustaining injury to his body and shock and injury to his nervous system
and person, all of which injuries have caused Plaintiff to suffer extreme
and severe mental anguish. All damages set forth herein are subject
to proof at the time of trial.
100. Defendants' false imprisonment of Plaintiff, as herein alleged,
was willful, wanton, despicable, malicious, and oppressive, and their acts
justify the awarding of punitive damages in an amount to be proven at trial.
SIXTH CAUSE OF ACTION (Invasion Of Privacy And Injunctive Relief) Against All
Defendants and Does 1-10, Inclusive
101. Plaintiff refers to and incorporates by reference each and
every paragraph set forth above as though each were fully set forth herein.
102. Plaintiff has heretofore availed himself of certain purported
"counseling" services offered by Scientology. In the course of said
counseling services, Defendants represented that Scientology was a benevolent,
law-abiding organization and that confidences given by Plaintiff would
be maintained inviolate. The confidential information was collated
in documents known as "Pre-Clear Folders," "Ethics Folders and/or Files."
103. Plaintiff, in reasonable reliance upon such represen-tations,
including the representation of confidentiality, made disclosures to persons
holding themselves out as "religious" counselors under the aegis and authority
of Defendants.
104. Subsequent to his induction and indoctrination as set forth
above, Defendants held themselves out, among other things, to be "religious"
organizations and endeavored to gain the trust and confidence of those
who came to them seeking guidance. As a consequence of these representations,
these Defendants owed a fiduciary duty to Plaintiff, including a duty to
keep matters he confided to them in the strictest confidence.
105. Pursuant to the promises of Defendants regarding psychological
counseling, Plaintiff was forced to participate in "counseling sessions"
in which he was forced to reveal his innermost private thoughts and feelings.
Defendants, and each of them, represented to Plaintiff that all such information
received from the so-called "auditing sessions" and/or "sec checks" employing
the use of various psychological techniques, including, but not limited
to, the use of the E-Meter, as described above, would be held in confidence
and would never be disclosed or put to any use. Said information
was of no legitimate public concern.
106. In violation of their fiduciary duty to maintain the confidentiality
of material gained during the counseling sessions, these Defendants, through
their agents, servants, counselors and employees, have disclosed, and have
attempted to disclose, the confidential material to third parties, and
are likely to continue to engage in such unethical conduct, for extortionate
purposes and other objectives contrary to Defendants' aforesaid representations
to the Plaintiff.
107. At all relevant times prior to Defendants' blackmail and
extortion of Plaintiff, Defendants had represented to Plaintiff that these
matters were all subject to the priest-penitent privilege and that they
were contained in his "pre-clear" and "ethics" folder which were confidential
and which would not be released or misused in any way. Plaintiff
relied upon these fraudulent misrepresentations to his damage and detriment
because Defendants concealed from Plaintiff their demonstrable history
and practice of "culling" parishioners pre-clear and ethics folders, and
(principally through Defendant Moxon) using such information for their
own purposes relating to the coercion, control and/or punishment of Defendants'
members or former members.
108. As a direct and proximate result of the acts alleged herein
and other acts constituting tortious invasion of privacy, Plaintiff has
incurred, and continues to incur, damages, including damages for emotional
distress.
109. These Defendants, and each of them, engaged in said invasion
of privacy with the specific intent to injure Plaintiff and his business
and society. This conduct is despicable, oppressive, malicious and
done in conscious disregard of Plaintiffs' rights. Therefore, Plaintiff
requests exemplary and punitive damages in an amount subject to proof at
time of trial of this matter.
110. Plaintiff further seeks a temporary and permanent injunction,
and the return of all of Plaintiff's PC Folders and Ethics Folders as well
as any and all copies of such contents so that these Defendants, and the
Scientology enterprise, will be unable to compromise further the confidences
entrusted to them by Plaintiff.
SEVENTH CAUSE OF ACTION (Intentional Infliction Of Emotional Distress) Against All
Defendants and Does 1-10, Inclusive
111. Plaintiff refers to and incorporates by reference each and
every paragraph set forth above as though each were fully set forth herein.
112. Defendants, and each of them, represented to Plaintiff that
they were rendering services of a mental and psychological nature that
would make Plaintiff a better person. These representations included
statements that Scientology would scientifically improve Plaintiff's well-being
and make him psychologically and physiologically a better person.
These representations were falsely made by Defendants, and each of them,
and known to be false when made. Based on the relationship of trust
developed between Plaintiff and Defendants, Defendants and each of them,
were fully aware of the particular susceptibility of Plaintiff to emotional
distress imposed by them.
113. Defendants' conduct as set out in the complaint above was
intentional and malicious and done for the purpose of causing Plaintiff
to suffer humiliation, mental anguish, emotional and physical distress.
The conduct of Defendants in confirming and ratifying that conduct was
done with the intent that Plaintiff's emotional and physical distress would
thereby increase upon application of the indoctrination techniques used
by Defendants. Such conduct was done with a conscious and reckless disregard
for the consequences to Plaintiff's physical, mental and emotional well
being.
114. As a direct and proximate result of the acts alleged herein
and other acts constituting tortious invasion of privacy, Plaintiff has
incurred, and continues to incur, damages, including damages for emotional
distress. These damages are not presently calculable, but exceed
$500,000, and Plaintiff will seek leave to amend this complaint to conform
to proof presented at trial.
115. These Defendants, and each of them, engaged in said invasion
of privacy with the specific intent to injure Plaintiff and his business
and society. This conduct is despicable, oppressive, malicious and
done in conscious disregard of Plaintiffs' rights. Therefore, Plaintiff
requests exemplary and punitive damages in an amount subject to proof at
time of trial of this matter.
EIGHTH CAUSE OF ACTION (Interference With Business
Relations)
Against All Defendants And Does 1-10, Inclusive
116. Plaintiff refers to and incorporates by reference, each
and every paragraph set forth above, as though each were fully set forth
herein.
117. Defendants were aware at all times of Plaintiff's business
relationships with and between other Scientologists for the purpose of
engaging in the sale of his art works.
118. In April 1991, Plaintiff, being a professional artist of
considerable repute, started an independent group of artists and art lovers
for the purpose of assisting them to do better in the field of art as a
result of learning from the experiences of Plaintiff. Plaintiff's
art group successfully grew until when Mrs. Sarit Rosenberg, President
of the Church of Scientology Celebrity Center in Paris, France, ordered
Plaintiff to her office for an "interview." She then ordered him
to cease all activities concerning his independent art group and Plaintiff
was told that if he failed to do so his life in Scientology would be made
"a living hell" by the use of Defendants' administrative personnel to cause
all of Plaintiff's Scientology friends to disconnect from him, and that
Scientology's upper management would cancel his "O.T. status" completely,
and that official Scientology publications or "issues" would be directed
against him, and they were.
119. Defendants, through the conduct described above, and intending
to injure, destroy, and otherwise interfere with Plaintiff's independent
art group and with his business and prospective business in terms of the
sale of art works created by him, did intentionally, maliciously, willfully
and without justification or privilege whatsoever, induce Plaintiff's customers
to breach their legal duty to Plaintiff and, through the conduct set forth
above, induced various persons not to do business with Plaintiff and/or
cease doing business with Plaintiff and to cause numerous persons who otherwise
would have become purchasers of Plaintiff's work not to deal with Plaintiff.
120. As a proximate result of Defendants' wrongful conduct, Plaintiff
has lost sales, profits and damages in an amount to be determined at trial.
NINTH CAUSE OF ACTION (Negligence)
Against All Defendants and Does 1-10, Inclusive
121. Plaintiff refers to and incorporates by reference each and
every paragraph set forth above as though each were fully set forth herein.
122. During the course of his relationship with the various Defendants,
Plaintiff entered into a relationship in which he placed trust in Defendants
and their claims concerning the mental, psychological and other benefits
they claimed they were providing to him. During the course of his
involvement with the various Defendants, Plaintiff developed a relationship
in which he depended upon the Defendants for his emotional, mental and
physical health and well being. Defendants violated this trust.
Further, by undertaking to provide Plaintiff with advice and treatment
concerning his physical, mental and emotional well being, Defendants had
a duty of care toward Plaintiff as to his physical, mental and emotional
health and well being.
123. From Fall 1973 until Fall 1997, Defendants, and each of
them, represented to Plaintiff that they were rendering services of a secular,
mental, psychological and physiological nature that would make Plaintiff
a better person. These representations included statements that Scientology
technology would "scientifically" improve Plaintiff's well-being and make
him psychologically a better person. Plaintiff is informed and believes,
and based thereon alleges, that Defendants knew, or should have known,
that their conduct was likely to result in causing him to suffer severe
emotional distress.
124. As a direct and proximate result of Defendants' acts, Plaintiff
suffered severe emotional distress in the form of fright, grief, shame,
humiliation, embarrassment, anger, chagrin, disappointment and worry.
Additionally, Plaintiff has suffered damage to his health, loss of income,
and loss of earning capacity. All damages set forth herein are subject
to proof at time of trial in this matter.
125. As a proximate result of the wrongful acts herein alleged,
Plaintiff has been damaged in an amount to be determined according to proof
at trial.
126. The aforementioned acts of Defendants were willful, wanton,
despicable, malicious, and oppressive and justify the awarding of exemplary
and punitive damages in an amount subject to proof at the time of trial
of this matter.
TENTH CAUSE OF ACTION (Breach Of Contract and the Covenant of Good Faith and Fair Dealing)
Against All Defendants And
Does 1-10, Inclusive
127. Plaintiff refers to and incorporates by reference, each
and every paragraph set forth above, as though each were fully set forth
herein.
128. During the years from Fall of 1973 through Fall 1997, and
through to the present day, Defendants and their agents entered into both
oral and express agreements with Plaintiff, in which Defendants promised
Plaintiff certain "scientifically proven" benefits, including, but not
limited to, the "handling" or cure of his "ruin" or homosexuality and other
misrepresentations and promises as more fully set forth above. Defendants
also promised to provide mental health and other psychological benefits
to Plaintiff. Based upon such express and oral promises, Plaintiff
engaged in professional Scientology training, obtained permanent certification
from Defendants, and paid for Scientology "auditing" and other processing.
129. Defendants, and each of them, breached the said agreements
by not providing any mental health or psychological services, but rather,
providing coercive indoctrination, bureaucratic and psychological coercion,
duress and stress, all designed to break Plaintiff's will so that he would
remain a compliant servant to Defendants for the remainder of his life,
and to the use of Defendants in furtherance of their illegal conduct and
money making schemes and scams. As the result of said breaches of
contract as set forth above, Plaintiff has lost the value of the reasonable
services he rendered to Defendants, and each of them, during his 25 year
affiliation with Defendants. Further, Plaintiff has lost 25 years
of his life that would have otherwise been spent developing his career,
financial security and the pursuit of freedom and happiness for himself.
130. The conduct of Defendants, as set forth above, constituted
a breach of the oral and express agreements between Plaintiff and Defendants,
and upon which Plaintiff had detrimentally relied.
131. Plaintiff has performed all obligations to Defendants, except
those obligations Plaintiff was prevented or excused from performing.
Plaintiff suffered damages legally and proximately caused by Defendants
breach of agreement. Said damages are in excess of $500,000, the
total amount of which will be proven at the time of trial.
132. The conduct of Defendants, as set forth above, also breached
the implied covenant of good faith and fair dealing, was wanton, despicable,
malicious and oppressive and justifies the awarding of exemplary and punitive
damages in an amount to be proven at trial.
ELEVENTH CAUSE OF ACTION (Restitution)
Against All Defendants and Does 1-10, Inclusive
133. Plaintiff refers to and incorporates by reference, each
and every paragraph set forth above, as though each were fully set forth
herein.
134. Defendants, and each of them, publicly advocate, inter alia,
that any person who takes Scientology courses and becomes dissatisfied
with the same, is entitled to a refund of the financial compensation paid
for the same. This representation by Defendants, and each of them,
is part of the agreement between Plaintiff and Defendants for Scientology
technology services Plaintiff has received. Pursuant to said agreement,
Plaintiff is hereby making demand upon Defendants, and each of them, for
the return of the financial compensation, and interest thereon, paid for
such training and courses. The monies paid by Plaintiff to Defendants
for the alleged services they rendered is at least $500,000.00.
135. Furthermore, Plaintiff demands the reasonable value of the
services he provided to Defendants, and each of them, whilst a full-time
employee of Defendants as more fully described above and in an amount according
to proof at trial and interest thereon from the date of service.
TWELFTH CAUSE OF ACTION (Unjust Enrichment, Accounting, Equitable Tracing And Imposition Of Constructive Trust)
Against All Defendants and Does 1-10, Inclusive
136. Plaintiff refers to and incorporates by reference, each
and every paragraph set forth above, as though each were fully set forth
herein.
137. Plaintiff is informed and believes, and thereon alleges,
that as a result of the wrongful conduct herein alleged, Defendants and
each of them, are now in possession of substantial sums of money and valuable
property belonging to Plaintiff and which properly should be refunded,
paid and transferred to Plaintiff. No part of said sums of money
or property has been refunded or delivered by Defendants to Plaintiff.
138. By reason of the wrongful manner in which Defendants obtained
said sums of money and property, and the product of his labor, Defendants
are involuntary trustees, ex maleficio, holding said sums, property and
profits in constructive trust for Plaintiff, and with the duty to convey
said sums and property to Plaintiff forthwith. Plaintiff is unable
to ascertain the exact amount of said sums, property and profits, held
by the Defendants as constructive trustees, ex maleficio, without a full
and complete accounting from Defendants and each of them, and an equitable
tracing with regard to Defendants and each of them.
THIRTEENTH CAUSE OF ACTION (Declaratory And Injunctive
Relief) Against All Defendants and Does 1-10, Inclusive
139. Plaintiff refers to and incorporates by reference, each and
every paragraph set forth above, as though each were fully set forth herein.
140. During Plaintiff's membership in, and participation in,
Defendants' Scientology enterprise, he was required to sign various purported
agreements such as "Church of Scientology of FSO Enrollment Agreement,"
dated October 7, 1995, "Church of Scientology of FSO Enrollment Agreement,"
dated July 26, 1995, "Church of Scientology of FSO Enrollment Agreement"
(All Services Excluding Div. 6 Basic Courses), dated April 3, 1988, "Church
of Scientology of FSO Enrollment Agreement" (All Services Excluding Div.
6 Basic Courses), dated November 27, 1987, "Church of Scientology Enrollment
Agreement" (For All Services Excluding Div. 6 Basic Courses), dated April
18, 1992, and others of like and different content.
141. These purported agreements required Plaintiff to:
(a) Give up the right of any claim or cause of action against Defendants
and to indemnify them and hold them harmless; (b) Submit any claim, dispute
or controversy Plaintiff may have with Defendants to their International
Justice Chief (I.J.C.); (c) refrain from, in all events, submitting a claim
or controversy to a court of judicial determination and that Plaintiff
was waiving his right to have disputes decided in a court of law, before
a judge and a jury; (d) Never discuss or publicize his Scientology related
experiences outside of Scientology; (e) Acknowledge that he had not been
coerced or pressured by any person to sign said agreements.
142. Said agreements were required to be signed by Plaintiff
after he had paid for certain courses, processes, and auditing. If
Plaintiff did not sign the said agreements, and any others that may have
borne his signature at that time, he clearly understood that he would not
continue to receive Defendants' services, processing, auditing and other
courses that he had also paid for. In that event, Plaintiff clearly
understood that his only recourse would have been to either considered
the monies paid gone forever, or to ask for a "refund." Plaintiff
knew that if he had asked for a "refund," he would have been expelled from
Scientology forever, prohibited forever from receiving the gains, cures,
and other alleged benefits he had been promised and would thereby be subject
to Defendants' policies of Fair Game directed at the handling of "Suppressive
Persons," that would then be applied to a person such as Plaintiff in a
requested refund situation.
143. As a result of the aforesaid administrative blackmail and
brainwashing, Plaintiff executed any and all such agreements under coercion,
duress, and undue influence, thereby rendering any such purported agreements
either void or voidable at the option of Plaintiff. In addition,
any and all such purported agreements were procured from Plaintiff through
fraud in either the inducement or inception and therefore all provisions
of any and all such purported agreements, including, but not limited to,
any purported arbitration provisions, are either void or voidable at Plaintiff's
option.
144. An actual controversy has arising and exists between Plaintiff
and Defendants regarding the validity of any and all such purported agreements,
including his right to approach this Court for the relief requested therein.
145. Plaintiff therefore desires a judicial declaration that
any and all agreements executed by Plaintiff with Defendants, or any one
of them, were procured by fraud, coercion, duress, fraud in the inducement/inception,
and are therefore void and/or voidable at the option of Plaintiff, thus
entitling him to the relief sought herein and rendering any purported arbitration
provision in any and all such purported agreements null, void and invalid.
146. Plaintiff further desires judicial declarations, and related
temporary and permanent injunctive relief that, inter-alia: Defendants'
activities, as set forth in its "Fair Game" policy, principally carried
out through Defendant Moxon, constitute civil rights violations and a violation
of Defendants' non-profit and tax-exempt federal and state status, and
a temporary and permanent injunction enjoining Defendants' further practice
of the "Fair Game" Policy.
147. Plaintiff further desires judicial declaration that the
purported one billion year contract between himself and Defendants is null
and void, or voidable, as being, among other things, contrary to public
policy, illegal, and the product of fraud in its inducement, inception
and execution.
148. Plaintiff further desires a judicial declaration that Defendants'
Rehabilitation Project Force (RPF), and that the RPF's RPF violate applicable
provisions of Federal and State law, including California Civil Code Sections
52.1(a) and (b), and a temporary and permanent injunction enjoining any
continued operation of the RPF and/or any likeness thereof.
149. Plaintiff further desires judicial declarations enjoining
Defendants' policies and practices relating to the "Purification Rundown",
the "Introspection Rundown", NOTS 34, "O.T. eligibility requirements" by
RTC as well as any RTC curtailing of freedom to retain and study and/or
practice the religion of choice of any person and other policies and practices
of Defendants that are dangerous, mentally and physically harmful, and/or
constitute the unlawful practice of medicine. Such conduct will continue
to occur, and to cause irreparable injury and/or death, unless temporary
and permanent injunctive relief is granted by this court.
150. Defendants possess "confessional" files of the Plaintiff
as described above. Because monetary damages cannot adequately approximate
or redress Plaintiff for the damages Plaintiff will suffer resulting from
disclosure of "confessional" files as alleged above, and because suit for
monetary damages would not be feasible, and Plaintiff would be irreparably
harmed if such disclosure occurred, Plaintiff requires a court order to
temporarily and permanently enjoin Defendants, and each of them, all their
agents or employees from examining said files, making and keeping separate
copies from any part of them, and removing said files or any extracts therefrom
from Defendants' custody so as to protect Plaintiff's constitutional rights
to privacy.
151. To prevent further wrongful exploitation of the confidential
material to the detriment of the Plaintiff, Plaintiff seeks temporary and
permanent injunctive relief, requiring the Defendant to hold the information
contained in the Plaintiff's files in constructive trust for him, and an
order directing Defendants, and each of them, to return these files, and
any copy or extract thereof or therefrom, regardless of the particular
name they may now have or they may have previously borne. Additionally,
Plaintiff seeks a temporary and permanent order restraining Defendants,
and each of them, and their agents and employees from reproducing or in
any manner disseminating or using the information contained in said files.
PRAYER
WHEREFORE, on the First, Second, Fourth, Fifth, Sixth, Seventh
and Ninth Causes of Action,
Plaintiff requests:
1. Compensatory damages of at least $500,000, and interest thereon
according to law;
2. Special damages according to proof;
3. Punitive and exemplary damages in an appropriate amount; and
4. An order requiring Defendants to return Plaintiff's "PC," "Ethics",
and other confidential files as requested in paragraph 110 above.
And on the Third Cause of Action, Plaintiff requests:
1. Disgorgement and restitution to Plaintiff in the amount of at least
$500,000.00 including any profits thereon;
2. Disgorgement and restitution to any other persons of any monies,
including any profits, obtained from such other persons by Defendants as
a result of their unfair business practices;
3. The trebling of all such sums paid as restitution under Business
and Professions Code § 17082;
4. Reasonable attorney's fees and costs and an appropriate Lodestar;
5. Costs of suit incurred herein;
6. An injunction enjoining Defendants herein from representing that
Scientology is a religion rather than a purely secular, commercial enterprise;
7. An injunction enjoining Defendants from failing to disclose the
secular purpose to which fees for "auditing" and "courses" are put;
8. Such other and further relief as may be proper and just.
And, on the Eighth and Tenth Causes of Action Plaintiff requests:
1. Compensatory damages of at least $500,000, and interest thereon
according to law;
2. Consequential damages according to proof;
3. Punitive or exemplary damages in an appropriate amount;
4. Costs of suit incurred herein
5. Such other and further relief as may be proper and just.
And on the Eleventh and Twelfth Causes of Action Plaintiff Further
Seeks:
1. The equitable relief requested in paragraphs 135, 136 and 139 herein;
2. A Temporary and Permanent injunction, the imposition of constructive
trust, an accounting, restitution, disgorgement, and other relief as requested
herein.
3. Costs of suit incurred herein; and
4. Such other and further relief as may be requested herein.
And on the Thirteenth Cause of Action, Plaintiff seeks:
1. The judicial declarations requested in paragraphs 146 to 152 herein.
AND ON ALL CAUSES OF ACTION HEREIN, PLAINTIFF REQUESTS:
1. Reasonable attorneys' fees where permitted by law;
2. Costs of suit incurred herein; and
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3. Such other and further relief as may be proper and just.
Dated: February ___, 1999 LAW OFFICES OF GRAHAM E. BERRY
By: ______________________________
Graham E. Berry
Attorney for Plaintiff
Michael Pattinson
DEMAND FOR JURY TRIAL
Pursuant to the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure, Plaintiff demands
a trial by jury of these claims.
Dated: February ___, 1999 LAW OFFICES OF GRAHAM E. BERRY
By________________________________
Graham E. Berry
Attorney
for Plaintiff
Michael Pattinson
PROOF OF SERVICE
I am employed in the County of Los Angeles, State of California. I am over the age of 18 and not a party to the within action; my business address is One Wilshire Boulevard, Twenty-First Floor, Los Angeles, California 90017.
On February 9, 1999, I served the foregoing document described as THIRD AMENDED COMPLAINT in Pattinson v. Church of Scientology, United States District Court Case No. 98-3985CAS (SHx) on the interested parties in this action as follows:
Eric M. Leiberman, Esq.RABINOWITZ, BOUDIN, STANDARD, KRINSKY & LIEBERMAN,
P.C.740 Broadway, 5th FloorNew York, NY 10003 Kendrick L. Moxon, Esq.MOXON
& KOBRIN6255 Sunset Blvd., Ste 2000Los Angeles, CA 90028-6329
Barbara A. Reeves, Esq.PAUL, HASTINGS, JANOFSKY & WALKER LLPTwenty-Third
Floor555 South Flower StreetLos Angeles, CA 90071-2371 Samuel D. Rosen,
Esq.PAUL, HASTINGS, JANOFSKY & WALKER LLPThirty-First Floor399 Park
AvenueNew York, NY 10022
* BY MAIL: I placed true copies thereof in sealed envelope(s) addressed as stated on the attached service list. I deposited such envelope(s) with postage thereon fully prepaid in the U.S. mail at Los Angeles, California.
I am readily familiar with the firm’s practice of collection and processing correspondence for mailing. Under that practice, it would be deposited with the U.S. Postal Service on that same day with postage thereon fully prepaid at Los Angeles, California, in the ordinary course of business. I am aware that on motion of the party served, service is presumed invalid if the postal cancellation date or postage meter date is more than one day after the date of deposit for mailing in this declaration.
I declare that I am employed in the office of a member of the bar of this court at whose direction this service was made.
Executed on February 9, 1999 at Los Angeles, California.