Leah Remini and Scientology are going backwards and forwards in courtroom over whether or not the actress correctly served church chief David Miscavige along with her bombshell lawsuit.
Based on courtroom paperwork obtained by RadarOnline.com, the Spiritual Know-how Middle, a company created by Scientology and one of many defendants within the case introduced by Remini, claimed the actress had not formally served Miscavige and requested that she not be allowed to serve him through an alternate methodology.
Final 12 months, Remini sued Scientology, Miscavige, and the Spiritual Know-how Middle. She accused the defendants of conducting a decades-long harassment marketing campaign in opposition to her.
The actress mentioned the defendants focused her after she left the church. Remini had been a member of Scientology from 1979 to 2013. After she left, Remini spoke out in opposition to the church and its insurance policies.
Remini launched a tv present that featured interviews with ex-Scientology members slamming the church.
In her lawsuit, Remini claimed the church and its agent had launched web sites that attacked her, referred to as up any advertisers who positioned advertisements on her tv exhibits, and had individuals present up at her mom’s house.
“For the previous ten years, Ms. Remini has been stalked, surveilled, harassed, threatened, intimidated, and, furthermore, has been the sufferer of intentional malicious and fraudulent rumors through lots of of Scientology-controlled and -coordinated social media accounts that exist solely to intimidate and unfold misinformation,” the go well with learn.
In October, Remini mentioned she had served Miscavige by having a course of sever hand a replica of the lawsuit to a safety guard outdoors the Scientology Movie star Centre in Hollywood.
Miscavige denied he had been served. His attorneys claimed, “[Remini] has not bothered to serve Mr. Miscavige with the Summons or Criticism. As a substitute, she despatched her course of server to purportedly try service at two Scientology-related areas, neither of that are Mr. Miscavige’s residence nor standard workplace. [Remini] appears to imagine that her statutory obligation to serve Mr. Miscavige might be sidestepped by unilaterally deciding on any Church of Scientology or associated group world wide and throwing papers at a safety guard.”
Remini then had a course of server make one other collection of makes an attempt. Just lately, she requested that the courtroom rule that the church chief had been served.
The actress mentioned she spent $10k to have the method server make 32 separate visits to 9 completely different Scientology addresses on 16 separate dates.
Her lawyer wrote, “The multitude of documented service makes an attempt upon Miscavige, and the quite a few people concerned in defending him from service, leaves zero doubt that Miscavige isn’t solely conscious of this lawsuit, however is actively thwarting his authorized obligation to play a task in it.”