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ALEXANDER v. UNIFICATION CHURCH OF AMERICA

No. 72, Docket 80-7324.

634 F.2d 673 (1980)

Joseph ALEXANDER, Sr., and Esther Alexander, Plaintiffs-Appellants, v. UNIFICATION CHURCH OF AMERICA, a/k/a Holy Spirit Association for the Unification of World Christianity, a/k/a Creative Community Project, a/k/a New Education Development Corp., Neil Salonen, Sun Myung Moon, and Unknown Others (including but not limited to Does 1-100), Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Second Circuit.

Decided November 3, 1980.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Paul Traub, New York City, for plaintiffs-appellants.

Richard I. Wolff, O'Sullivan, Wolff, Karabell & Graev, New York City, for defendants-appellees Unification Church and Salonen.

Julian W. Friedman, New York City (Charles A. Stillman, Stillman & Friedman, P. C., New York City, of counsel), for defendant-appellee Moon.

Before FEINBERG, Chief Judge, LUMBARD and OAKES, Circuit Judges.

OAKES, Circuit Judge:

This case arises out of the age-old conflict between parents and their offspring occurring when the latter affiliate with a new, and perhaps different, sect that at least purports to be religious in nature. Appellants are so-called "deprogrammers" who work on behalf of parents in what they characterize as an effort to restore new converts of unorthodox religious groups to society by dissuading them from...

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