Title: Table of Contents for
Reply to Opposition Motion of RTC to renewed motion to amend
judgement---Wollersheim
Author: LMT News <info@lisatrust.net>
Date: Mon, 31 Jan 2000 18:35:29 -0500
Table of Contents 1. PRELIMINARY NOTE..................................1 2. SUMMARY OF THE FUNDAMENTAL FALLACIES OF RTC'S OPPOSITION........................................1 3. RTC'S FACTUAL ASSERTIONS ARE CONTRARY TO THE EVIDENCE..........................................4 A. Among RTC's Most Odious And Incorrect Contentions Is That "No Evidence Of Bad Faith" Supports The Motion To Amend The Judgment.....................................4 B. RTC's Own Prior Veneration of Jesse Prince's Expertise Means The Current Effort to Discredit Him Fails................7 C. RTC Fails To Overcome The Evidence Demonstrating Its Integral Role In The Management Of CSC's Defense..................10 D. The Competent Evidence Continues To Show That, As Puppets Of The Sea Org And Its Leader, David Miscavige, Respondents Were Intimately Involved In Determining CSC's Defense.................12 4. RTC CANNOT PRECLUDE SCRUTINY OF ITS IMPROPER EXTRA CORPORATE ACTIVITIES BY HIDING BEHIND A VEIL OF "ECCLESIASTICAL" PRIVILEGE................18 A. The Doctrine Of Ecclesiastical Abstention Does Not Preclude Imposition Of Alter Ego Liability On Religious Liberty Grounds.......20 B. There Exist At Least Three Separate Bases For Rejecting RTC's Effort To Assert A Religious Liberty Deference Defense To Trump Alter Ego Liability....................23 1. Lack Of Standing: Respondents Cannot Rely On The Ecclesiastical Defense Because They Claim The Sea Org Possesses No Ecclesiastical Or Corporate Authority.....................23 2. Respondents' Fraud And Collusion Precludes Them From Invoking The Protection, If Any, Offered By The Ecclesiastical Abstention Doctrine......24 a. Ascribing The Fraud And Collusion To Respondents By Way Of Their Sea Org Connection Finds Authority In Published Case Law..............28 3. The Absence Of An Intra-Sectarian Controversy Means There Is No Risk Of An Improper Judicial Determination And No Basis To Abstain From Deciding This Controversy.............................29 5. CONCLUSION........................................40