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The nuttiest case I came across WRT arbitration was that Scientology has persuaded some courts that they can't hear cases against scientology filed by former me
by throwaxenu 3y ago
The nuttiest case I came across WRT arbitration was that Scientology has persuaded some courts that they can't hear cases against scientology filed by former members, until an arbitration has been conducted run by scientology itself. From https://www.thedailybeast.com/inside-the-secret-hell-of-going-to-war-with-scientology https://www.thedailybeast.com/inside-the-secret-hell-of-goin...
"However, in January 2020, Scientology convinced Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Richard Burdge Jr. that because Haney signed her exit agreement on that day in 2017 with the attorney Gary Soter and the armed security guard watching her, she was obliged by that contract not to sue the church but to submit to its own brand of internal “religious arbitration.”"
" Haney testified that she was astonished to see someone she considered one of her “abusers” (as her attorneys described her in the Status Conference Report filed in her lawsuit) to be on the panel that would supposedly judge her claims fairly ."