Scientology Says Leah Remini’s Harassment Suit Violates First Amendment

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Scientology says that Leah Remini’s harassment suit against her former Church and its leader David Miscavige should be DOA thanks to the First Amendment. “Defendants determined that the vast majority of the allegations in the 68-page, 310 paragraph long FAC implicate Defendants’ constitutionally protected speech or activity, “ Scientology’s Winston & Strawn LLP and Jeffer Mangels Butler & Mitchell LLP lawyers spelled out in a memorandum filed Tuesday in LA Superior Court. “Each cause of action incorporates all prior allegations, and each action depends – in whole or in part – on allegations containing protected activity within the anti-SLAPP statute,” they add.

Defendants Scientology International, Miscavige and Church corporation the Religious Technology Center will be seeking permission this morning from Judge Randolph Hammock to submit a combination brief of support for an anti-SLAPP motion to strike. “Despite the length of the First Amended Complaint and the volume of its allegations, CSI and RTC do not seek to increase the total number of pages allotted to them by statute.

Defendants seek only to file a single consolidated 30-page brief,” the defendants asserts (read Scientology’s memo to the court here). RELATED: Scientology & Danny Masterson Harassment Trial Date Set In a short October 17 filing of her own, Scientology and the Aftermath host Remini said that she thought 30 pages is “excessive” but would defer “to the Court’s judgment as to the appropriate length of a coordinated filing and, if the Court grants Defendants’ request, Plaintiff asks for leave to file a coordinated response of an equal number of pages.” Not far from the criminal court building where Remini and others on September 7 watched prominent