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CHURCH OF SCIENTOLOGY OF CAL. v. DELL PUBLISHING CO., INC.

No. C-70-2089.

362 F.Supp. 767 (1973)

The CHURCH OF SCIENTOLOGY OF CALIFORNIA a religious corporation, and Reverend Robert H. Thomas, Plaintiffs, v. DELL PUBLISHING CO., INC., a New York corporation, and George Malko, Defendants.

United States District Court, N. D. California.

As Corrected September 17, 1973.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Robert B. Ingram, Belli, Ashe, Ellison & Choulos, San Francisco, Cal., for plaintiffs.

John A. Sutro, Jr., Pillsbury, Madison & Sutro, San Francisco, Cal., for defendants.

OPINION AND ORDER

SCHNACKE, District Judge.

In this defamation action, defendants have moved for summary judgment. The Court has concluded that the motion must be denied but deems it advisable to discuss some of the legal issues for guidance in future phases of the case.

Defendants are the publisher and author, respectively, of a book entitled Scientology: The Now Religion, originally published in a hardcover edition, upon which the present...

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