Haney’s lawyer, Graham E. Berry, who wrote the Could 30 letter, despatched us a press release along with his takeaways from the listening to, expressing some frustration over Scientology lawyer William Foreman allegedly telling the court docket “it had no energy to do something.” As a substitute, Foreman advised the decide “simply set one other Standing Convention eight months out,” Berry stated.
“The decide knowledgeable me that she had no energy to finish the arbitration,” he added, accusing the decide of being “dismissive.”
“I famous that the Scientology arbitration settlement comprises no time restrict and drew her consideration to Code of Civil Process part 1283.8 which supplies in that scenario a celebration might petition the court docket repair a time inside which the arbitration award should be made,” Berry continued.
He identified that the Church of Scientology web site states, “Any justice motion in Scientology is anticipated to be concluded inside per week of being convened, saving the events concerned the pointless stress of prolonged delays.”
Berry known as Scientology’s arbitration course of “so abusive of Valerie who’s clearly handled as being Suppressive Individuals to be ‘destroyed by any imply attainable,'” claiming they have been utilizing “thought management, coercive indoctrination, and psychological manipulation.”
“Now we have to get this case earlier than the California Supreme Courtroom and possibly the Supreme Courtroom of the US with a purpose to get a judicial revision of the rights of former member plaintiffs in a non secular arbitration,” he stated, including, “We additionally want one other California appellate determination {that a} former member is now not certain by an non secular arbitration settlement the place secular crimes and torts are alleged (even when dedicated in opposition to the previous member while that former member was nonetheless within the group.”
“As well as, Church – Member contracts ought to be precluded from containing necessary non secular arbitration of secular crimes and torts, or containing necessary basic releases.”