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...with gay-rights groups to discuss their concerns before filing the suit over the controversial law banning gay marriage but ultimately decided to move forward anyway. "We have given this a great deal of thought," said Olson, who noted that sitting on the sidelines hardly guarantees that some other plaintiff won't seek his or her own day in court. "Both David and I have seen cases at the Supreme Court brought by people who didn't know what they were doing. We feel we do know what we are doing." (Watch a gay-marriage wedding video...
...After two of the four original plaintiffs agreed to settle out of court, the case now centers on charges by two women who say they were preyed upon by the organization. On Tuesday, Aude-Claire Malton, a hotel employee who makes $1,620 a month, told the court that once she'd agreed to accept the treatment the Scientology "auditors" had prescribed to remedy her spiritual imperfections, she found herself facing a $27,000 bill within two months. The second plaintiff claims she was forced by her Scientologist boss to undergo spiritual auditing in 1998 and was fired when...
...According to URC Executive Manager Bob Simha, the former director of planning at MIT, 38 people signed purchase and sale contracts and submitted their initial deposits. He said that they have received more than 60 other inquiries, but further contracts have been put on hold. In the past year, plaintiff and MIT President Emeritus Paul E. Gray said that the developers had altered their plans and that communication between the developers and URC has broken down. In a meeting with URC last November, the developers voiced their desire to convert the remaining condominiums into rentals, but has not met with...
...Ironically, the court decision also delivered a setback to the plaintiff by rejecting over $357,000 in damages she had sought for hardship resulting from her father's deportation. The reason: the Conseil ruled that organizations set up to pay deportees and their survivors damages, or to compensate them for belongings stolen by Nazis or their French collaborators, have proven to be capable of fairly settling damages without court involvement. (See pictures of the Nazis in Paris...
This is not the FFRF's first foray into Dayton. In 2002, it was a plaintiff in a court case that ultimately banned Bible classes in Dayton's public schools. "For us, this billboard was really symbolic," Gaylor admits. "We didn't really expect Dayton to be a fertile recruiting ground for us. It's just our statement that they should not suppress knowledge by teaching religion in schools. Their belief is holding them back...