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From: Zenon Panoussis <oracle@dodo.pp.se>
Newsgroups: alt.religion.scientology
Subject: Latest developments
Date: Wed, 11 Sep 1996 21:09:51 +0200
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To understand this you must realize that the courts in 
certain situations are obliged to act quickly. This fact 
is sometimes abused, with or without success, as right 
now by the CoS.

I learned today that after the primary court's decision 
on Friday to deny the CoS' motion for secrecy on the NOTs, 
the CoS filed still another motion on Monday, about the 
same thing. The new motion was denied too, in a decision 
yesterday. At the same time two more CoS motions were 
denied: 1) that the court "order measures aimed at preventing 
infringment to the rights of the plaintiff" and 2) that 
the court in the future consist of three judges instead 
of only one.

The CoS appealed against the new decision to keep the 
NOTs public. I learned about the appeal (as I am getting 
used to in this case) by coincidence. I decided that 
now is the time to put the lawyer on the case that I 
had retained already last week. She filed a statement  
against the CoS secrecy motion, which although delivered 
within a couple of hours of my learning about the appeal 
arrived too late: the matter had already been taken 
into consideration by the judges. A decision was reached 
this afternoon or early evening, but will be pronounced 
in the morning. This is the most exciting moment so far: 
if publicity is upheld, it will also be the greatest 
victory of reason over the CoS abuse of the law. I'll 
inform you as soon as I know.

At the same time tomorrow morning I will also have a decision 
on my appeal of the taking my computer material in custody.

For those of you that can read Norwegian, there is an article 
on the case at 
http://origo.telenor.no/spinn/nettnytt/saker/96/september/scientologi.html


Z