Rocky Mountain News - 08/24/95

JUDGES REFUSED HEARING ON BOULDER RAID
by Karen Abbott, Rocky Mountain News staff writer.

Two federal judges refused a request for emergency hearings
while documents were being seized from a Church of Scientology
critic in Boulder, a lawyer said Wednesday.

Attorney David Lane, representing Larry Wollersheim for the American
Civil Liberties Union, said Denver U.S. District Court judges Lewis
Babcock and John Kane refused his telephone pleas Tuesday.

"Neither one of them could be bothered to give Mr. Wollersheim
so much as a hearing," Lane said.

Babcock issued an order Monday allowing Scientology officials,
accompanied by U.S. marshals, to conduct a suprise raid at Wollersheim's
Boulder apartment Tuesday and take any materials they though
appropriate.

The church claims Wollersheim was about to disseminate copyrighted
church scriptures on his computer bulletin board and the
Internet.  Church attorney Helena Kobrin said proper legal steps
were followed.