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TONY ORTEGA
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[Judge Brazile, Valerie Haney]
The last time we were updating you on Valerie Haney’s legal odyssey, last November she had completed fifteen days of Scientology’s “religious arbitration,” most of which had nothing to do with the claims from her 2019 lawsuit.
Valerie was featured in Leah Remini’s A&E series Scientology and the Aftermath for her wild escape from the church’s Sea Organization, hiding in the trunk of an actor’s car in order to flee from the secretive Southern California base where, she alleges, she spent years in virtual slavery.
After her escape, she alleges that she went through scary harassment and intimidation by the church as she worked for Remini and appeared on the program.
A Los Angeles Superior Court Judge ruled, however, that contracts Valerie had signed while a Sea Org employee obliged her not to sue Scientology but to submit her claims to its religious arbitration.
In the 73-year history of the Church of Scientology, only one other court-ordered case of arbitration has ever occurred, in a lawsuit brought by an Orange County couple, the Garcias, and their arbitration took a single afternoon in 2017.
In Valerie’s case, however, the panel of “arbitrators” — all Scientology employees — have put Valerie through 15 days of questioning over a three-year period. Valerie’s attorney Guy D’Andrea told us that at least 10 of those 15 days have had nothing to do with the allegations in her lawsuit. Valerie has had to sit before the panel, prevented from having her attorney with her or any recording device, while she’s asked about hundreds of her Instagram or TikTok “likes,” for example, and other endless and irrelevant minutiae.
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The last time we were updating you on Valerie Haney’s legal odyssey, last November she had completed fifteen days of Scientology’s “religious arbitration,” most of which had nothing to do with the claims from her 2019 lawsuit.
Valerie was featured in Leah Remini’s A&E series Scientology and the Aftermath for her wild escape from the church’s Sea Organization, hiding in the trunk of an actor’s car in order to flee from the secretive Southern California base where, she alleges, she spent years in virtual slavery.
After her escape, she alleges that she went through scary harassment and intimidation by the church as she worked for Remini and appeared on the program.
A Los Angeles Superior Court Judge ruled, however, that contracts Valerie had signed while a Sea Org employee obliged her not to sue Scientology but to submit her claims to its religious arbitration.
In the 73-year history of the Church of Scientology, only one other court-ordered case of arbitration has ever occurred, in a lawsuit brought by an Orange County couple, the Garcias, and their arbitration took a single afternoon in 2017.
In Valerie’s case, however, the panel of “arbitrators” — all Scientology employees — have put Valerie through 15 days of questioning over a three-year period. Valerie’s attorney Guy D’Andrea told us that at least 10 of those 15 days have had nothing to do with the allegations in her lawsuit. Valerie has had to sit before the panel, prevented from having her attorney with her or any recording device, while she’s asked about hundreds of her Instagram or TikTok “likes,” for example, and other endless and irrelevant minutiae.
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Scientology wants even more days of arbitration from Valerie Haney, new judge says OK
The last time we were updating you on Valerie Haney’s legal odyssey, last November she had completed fifteen days of Scientology’s “religious arbitration,” most of which had nothing to do with the claims from her 2019 lawsuit.
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