Barry Van Sickle, lawyer for the plaintiffs Marc and Claire Headley and Laura DeCrescenzo, gives an update on the cases against David Miscavige and the Scientology organization.

They [Scientology] e-filed the expected motions to dismiss last night. I have not had a chance to study the motions but in the mandatory “meet and confer ” process the main arguments were based on statue of limitation defenses.

Documents filed in federal court are available on line to anyone with a credit card and a Pacer account. Anyone interested in doing this can PM me and I will provide the data.

We will be cross-moving for summary judgement on the “employment issue”, and have started that process under the local rules. Basically, we are contending that the “volunteer” and “waiver” defenses fail as a matter of law.

There has been some outside interest in helping us file motions for a TRO ( temporary restraining order) on coerced abortions. That is under consideration.

An important issue being raised in Laura’s case is the validity of the various purported waivers, confidentialty agreements, and penalty clauses they make people sign to get out. Marc and Claire escaped while Laura tried to “route out” as they say in the jargon.

We have collected several documents used by the scientology enterprise to intimidate departing “employees”. One such example purports to be a termination of employment agreement.

We are looking for more examples of routing out agreements and persons willing to be witnesses or otherwise be involved in the mission to establish that such “settlement agreements” are illegal and unenforceable.