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TONY ORTEGA
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This afternoon California’s Second Appellate District upheld a ruling that denied the Church of Scientology’s attempt to gut a lawsuit against the church, its leader David Miscavige, and Scientology celebrity Danny Masterson.
The lawsuit, known as Bixler v. Scientology, was filed by the Jane Doe victims who testified in Masterson’s criminal case, as well as one of their husbands and another woman who did not testify in the trials that ended up putting Masterson in prison for 30 years to life for two counts of forcible rape.
The civil lawsuit was filed in 2019 and actually predates the criminal charges against Masterson. In the lawsuit, the plaintiffs are suing over the harassment they say they went through for coming forward to the LAPD.
The lawsuit was on hold during Masterson’s trials, but after he was convicted in 2023 the case got going again and Scientology filed an anti-SLAPP motion attempting to strike much of the case, saying that it was blaming Scientology for things it had nothing to do with.
LA Superior Court Judge Upinder Kalra denied Scientology’s motion outright saying that at this early stage, the Jane Does had alleged enough for the case to proceed. Scientology then appealed his ruling.
It’s that ruling that the appeals court has upheld, with two very small exceptions: The appeals court has ruled that two sentences out of the 58-page amended complaint be removed.
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Excerpt:
This afternoon California’s Second Appellate District upheld a ruling that denied the Church of Scientology’s attempt to gut a lawsuit against the church, its leader David Miscavige, and Scientology celebrity Danny Masterson.
The lawsuit, known as Bixler v. Scientology, was filed by the Jane Doe victims who testified in Masterson’s criminal case, as well as one of their husbands and another woman who did not testify in the trials that ended up putting Masterson in prison for 30 years to life for two counts of forcible rape.
The civil lawsuit was filed in 2019 and actually predates the criminal charges against Masterson. In the lawsuit, the plaintiffs are suing over the harassment they say they went through for coming forward to the LAPD.
The lawsuit was on hold during Masterson’s trials, but after he was convicted in 2023 the case got going again and Scientology filed an anti-SLAPP motion attempting to strike much of the case, saying that it was blaming Scientology for things it had nothing to do with.
LA Superior Court Judge Upinder Kalra denied Scientology’s motion outright saying that at this early stage, the Jane Does had alleged enough for the case to proceed. Scientology then appealed his ruling.
It’s that ruling that the appeals court has upheld, with two very small exceptions: The appeals court has ruled that two sentences out of the 58-page amended complaint be removed.
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Appeal ruling: Nearly total win for Jane Does against Scientology and Danny Masterson
This afternoon California’s Second Appellate District upheld a ruling that denied the Church of Scientology’s attempt to gut a lawsuit against the church, its leader David Miscavige, and Scientology celebrity Danny Masterson.
tonyortega.substack.com
