Confirmed: Scientology leader David Miscavige is coming to Los Angeles this month!

Two weeks ago, we told you that one of our sources had received an invitation to attend a taping of Scientology’s New Year’s event on December 16 at LA’s Shrine Auditorium, which suggested that church leader David Miscavige was following up his visit to England in November to revive the annual IAS gala there by doing the same in Los Angeles with the traditional end-of-year celebration.

Now, we have even stronger confirmation that this is the case, with a flyer announcing the New Year’s event, and featuring an image of Miscavige on stage.

During the pandemic and up to this summer, Miscavige had been holding smaller versions of these annual Scientology rites at the Fort Harrison Hotel in Clearwater, Florida, and while evading process servers who would like to haul the pope of Scientology into numerous lawsuits in Florida and California.

So we figure he’s taking a bit of a risk to come to the Shrine with at least three active lawsuits going on in Los Angeles alone, and all three trying to serve him.

We’re going to assume that the LA crowd is going to hear many of the same things that the gathering in England heard, about Scientology destroying the psychiatric profession, saving disaster victims, and opening up new “Ideal” facilities around the globe. Hip, hip, hooray.

We can hardly wait to hear how it all goes.

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Jane Doe 1 team spells out what they want in discovery

A December 13 hearing is rapidly approaching when Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Robert Broadbelt III will be asked to decide whether to allow Jane Doe 1 some “limited discovery” while her forced-marriage lawsuit against Scientology is on hold pending a February showdown over Scientology’s attempt to divert the case into “religious arbitration.”

Scientology is opposed to any discovery occurring before its motion can be heard in February, and argued that Jane Doe 1 had already demonstrated that she had as much information as she needed about the contract she signed in 2002 with her lengthy explanation for why she believes it’s invalid. What more could she want to know wasn’t spelled out, Scientology complained.

So now Jane Doe 1’s team has answered that by spelling out in detail exactly what she would like to have turned over to her if the court will grant her the limited discovery. It’s a great list of stuff, and it would be fun to see Scientology have to cough it up…

Jane Doe seeks:

— FLAG policies that support the unconscionability underlying the defense of undue influence, the threats/mental coercion aspect of the defense of duress, and/or the defense of fraud in the execution (specifically, the issue of establishing that there was deception as to the nature of the act).
— Policies regarding the timing and frequency of instructing visitors to sign Agreements.
— Policies regarding how much time to allow visitors to read or review an Agreement before signing.
— Policies regarding oral instructions or representations to provide visitors related to the content of the Agreement, including recommended responses to questions
regarding the Agreement.

Specific information related to Jane Doe and the Agreement at issue:
— All documents related to the counter-signing or accepting of Jane Doe’s Agreement.
— All writings or recordings related to discussions surrounding Jane Doe’s presence at FLAG in the absence of a signed Agreement, including discussions or reprimands and punishments therefor and any disciplinary action taken against individuals for failure to obtain Jane Doe’s signed Agreement and/or failure to counter-sign it.
— All documents, writings or recordings related to or reflecting the benefits of Jane Doe’s presence at FLAG.
— Identities of authorities overseeing Jane Doe’s unsigned and unaccepted Agreement.
— Documents, memos, reports or other writings dated before February 25, 2002 related to Jane Doe’s mother’s stay at FLAG.
— Interactions, including any written, electronic or telephonic correspondence, between FLAG and the Los Angeles Scientology division regarding Jane Doe, including with Jane Doe’s handler, Julian Swartz.
— What, if any, “direct communication” Scientology considered or sent to Jane Doe regarding the issues in this matter in accordance with Section 6(d) of the Agreement Defendants seek to enforce.

Information about the scope and manner of a Scientology arbitration to determine the enforceability of the Agreement:
— All documents, including directives authored by L. Ron Hubbard, describing the Scientology arbitration procedures including:
— whether it is a justice procedure versus a dispute resolution;
— the role of the International Justice Chief generally (and specifically as to Jane Doe) in accordance with Section 6(d) of the Agreement;
— the qualifications and selection of arbitrators, including whether any arbitrator is a neutral;
— the handling of multiple defendant arbitrations, including whether each defendant may select an arbitrator and whether Plaintiff must be subject to five arbitrations; and
— written policies, procedures, guidelines and/or instructions for arbitrators;
— All documents reciting or reflecting purposes and justification for requiring arbitration.
— The mechanisms by which any challenges to the Agreement’s formation or legitimacy would be heard.
— Any Scientology text that refers to and/or requires “arbitration.”

On Wednesday, we'll see if Judge Broadbelt gives Jane Doe 1 the chance to get this information.

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