I have lost the lawsuit in which two Scientologists sued me, and I will have to pay about $250, plus legal fees (which will be about $100). The court held that the "quiz" I made (please look on deja.com for appropriate keywords to read the story) is indeed libellous, but it said that the legal fees of the cease and desist letter were too high. The scientologist's attorney had unilaterally set the "litigation value" to DM 30000. The court considered this to be way too high, and set it to DM 8000. (In Germany, legal fees depend on the "litigation value" of a court case. For example if a cultist smashes my camera and the camera is worth $1000, and he claims he didn't do it, then $1000 is the litigation value, and there are tables that tell the attorney fees).

My trial strategy paid off - I avoidedto have a trial in state court, and was able to lower the amount of $$ that I owed to the opposing attorney.

http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Oracle/4497/quizurteil.tif (No, I do not have plans to translate it or to OCR it) Tilman -- Tilman Hausherr [KoX, SP5] Entheta * Enturbulation * Entertainment tilman@berlin.snafu.de http://www.xenu.de Resistance is futile. You will be enturbulated. Xenu always prevails.

Find broken links on your web site: http://www.snafu.de/~tilman/xenulink.html The Xenu bookstore: http://www.snafu.de/~tilman/bookstore.html

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