All the fuss about Minton is irrelevant to the Lisa McPherson case:

"If the monies received by either the Estate or Dandar from Minton are irrelevant to the wrongful death case, as determined by the Second District, there can be no perjury or subornation of perjury regarding Dandar or Minton's testimony about their ownership or purpose. That is so because perjury involves something 'material' to a case."

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Joe Cisar http://cisar.org The Press and Public Relations Policies of Layfayette Ronald Hubbard http://www.xenu.net/archive/thesis/cisar-home.html

a.r.s. may be Scientology's Vietnam, but the attacks on Minton are the critics' My Lai.

From: ptsc <ptsc@nowhere.com>
Subject: Re: Irrelevant anti-Minton spam
Organization: Busts Your Rips!
Message-ID: <4as82vousv2q9tkb2ekiod0frd1cihrcac@4ax.com>
Date: Tue, 14 Jan 2003 20:24:20 GMT

On Tue, 14 Jan 2003 06:39:55 -0500, Beverly Rice <dbj1120@mpinet.net> wrote:

[Kook rant from Joe's Padded Room deleted.]

[Snip most of rest of post.]

>Does this mean that the McPherson case can go ahead an be moved
>on in spite of all the distraction?

No, not yet. It means Scientology will appeal the ruling. Note the last line:

ORDERED AND ADJUDGED that no Motion for Reconsideration will be entertained.

This is an attempt to avoid the inevitable playing around with "motions for reconsideration" and other time-wasting nonsense and move it right up to the appeal court. Don't be surprised if Scientology doesn't try to take it as far up the appeals ladder as humanly possible. If they manage to find a court fool enough to give them oral arguments or an evidentiary hearing, they have a repeat of the same dog and pony show (I don't expect this horror, at least).

-- Liberty is better served by presenting a clear target to one's opponents than by joining with them in an insincere and useless brotherliness.

-Benedetto Croce