||||| Message-ID: <3D335E03.8050106@hammerhead.com> Date: Mon, 15 Jul 2002 16:42:59 -0700 From: Thaddeus Beier Organization: Hammerhead Productions User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.0.0) Gecko/20020605 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: alt.religion.scientology Subject: Wollersheim hearing this morning Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit NNTP-Posting-Host: 216.102.153.252 X-Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 216.102.153.252 X-Trace: 15 Jul 2002 19:43:00 -0400, 216.102.153.252 X-Original-Trace: 15 Jul 2002 19:43:00 -0400, 216.102.153.252 Lines: 66 Path: news2.lightlink.com Xref: news2.lightlink.com alt.religion.scientology:1535105 Here are my notes from today's hearing. I was only there for the first 40 minutes or so, so I missed some of the resolution. Hearing at dept 24 LA Superior Court July 15, 2002 About 8 lawyers responded to the call from the Judge Hess. These included Greene, Leipold, Stein, Shaw (representing Minton). Wollersheim was included over the phone (court-call) Stein was representing Wollersheim. The hearing was how to divide the money between the parties. At issue is the $8.3M or so deposited by CSC with the court at the last hearing. There are 11 people with claims on the money. Of these 11, 9 have agreed with Wollersheim. These include Leipold and Shaw (for Minton). The two remaining claims are Ford Greene and Leta Schlosser. The 9 agreed upon claims add up to a little more than $2M. Stein asked that the money be released to the 9 agreeing parties, as there will still be more than enough left for the others no matter what -- I didn't hear the resolution of this. Wollersheim claimed that he and the other two parties were at an impasse, and the judge asked about the two in turn. Greene's claim is that he is due interest on the $600,000 fee agreed upon. The contract specifies that they would be paid $600,000 upon the award but they think that they are due 10% statutory interest, it is not clear why they feel that way. Wollersheim feels that the contract is clear, and that he owes the $600,000. Greene and Stein agreed to submit briefs to the judge for his decision; although Greene would have preferred mediation; it seemed he wanted a kind of arbitrated mediation that doesn't exist in the law. The amount of the claim is 11 years of interest at 10% on $600,000, or about $650,000. Both sides agreed that the facts were not in dispute. The other claim is for somewhere between $600,000 and $2.4M for work done by Schlosser, a former partner of Greene. She worked on the case from the beginning, with Greene up until '89, then apparently after that as well. I had to leave at this point in the hearing. In any case, it is clear that there will be millions of dollars left unclaimed after this hearing, presumably for Wollersheim to dispose of. The 'counterclaim' mentioned in the court listing did not come up before I left. There were apparently no Co$ lawyers present, at least for the part of the hearing that I was able to attend.