CHURCH OF SCIENTOLOGY OF CALIFORNIA v. RICHARDSON

No. 24276.

437 F.2d 214 (1971)

The CHURCH OF SCIENTOLOGY OF CALIFORNIA, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. Elliot RICHARDSON et al., Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit.

January 11, 1971.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Marvin Zinman (appeared), Los Angeles, Cal., for appellant.

Larry Dier (appeared), Asst U. S. Atty., William Matthew Byrne, Jr., U. S. Atty., Frederick M. Brosio, Jr., Chief, Civ. Div., Los Angeles, Cal., for appellees.

Before ELY, CARTER and TRASK, Circuit Judges.


JAMES M. CARTER, Circuit Judge:

This appeal involves an alleged deprivation of rights protected by the United States Constitution and the Civil Rights Act of 1964 (42 U.S.C. §§ 1981, 1983).

Appellant is a California non-profit corporation, organized for the ostensible purpose of disseminating religious doctrine known as "Scientology."1 The "Hubbard E-meter" is an instrument that is allegedly essential to the practice...

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