Ten years after Time magazine ran an award-winning article portraying the Church of Scientology as a "ruthless global scam," the Supreme Court refused to consider reinstating the church's libel case. [Associated Press]
Trial of a critic of Scientology on a misdemeanor charge ends in a hung jury due to worries that he was set up by the Church of Scientology. The prosecutors then dropped the charges. [St. Petersburg Times]
A judge gives the church a delay so it can fight for the privacy of a practice it compares to confession. [St. Petersburg Times]
Colleagues of State Attorney Bernie McCabe say charging the church, not the members, and deciding against a manslaughter charge walks the line between acting too harshly and too weakly. [St. Petersburg Times]
A federal court in Germany has failed to reach a verdict on the legal status of Scientology -- after years of international debate. [BBC News].
A French government committee recommends dissolving the Church of Scientology on the grounds that its activities threaten public order. [BBC News]
Marseilles court has convicted five members of the Church of Scientology of fraud for extorting large payments from vulnerable members for dubious cures. [BBC News]
A French prosecutor has asked a court in Marseille to jail a former leader of the Church of Scientology who has been accused of obtaining large sums of money by fraud from other members of the Church. [BBC News]
The trial has ended in the French city of Marseille of seven members of the Church of Scientology accused of fraud. [BBC News]
Germany and the United States are to discuss their disagreements over the Church of Scientology. [BBC News]
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