**Biased Journalism** : a net magazine designed to compensate for the shortcomings of the professional news media. Copyright 1996 Shelley Thomson; all rights reserved. Mail, articles and comment may be directed to . Netiquette will be observed with all communication, except for the following: harassing or threatening mail will be posted to the net immediately. **Biased Journalism** Volume 2, issue 7 April 8, 1996. Contents: Bulletin! Grady Deposed; Keith Henson Sued; Re: the Lawsuit against Henson; Not A Good Day For The Church (Henson's Response); The Complaint; Bite Me RTC; **BJ** publisher makes the hit list. Read at your own risk. This is **Biased Journalism**! 1. GRADY DEPOSED: BULLETIN FROM THE FRONT LINES At this moment the citizens of cyberspace wait to hear what happened during the depositon of net citizen Grady Ward by lawyers representing the church of scientology. As reported in our previous issue, Ward made a practice of taunting the church for its failure to stop the publication of the sacred scriptures by SCAMIZDAT. The Religious Technology Center [an arm of the church] obtained a Temporary Restraining Order against Ward and were granted discovery. Ward received a detailed discovery request; his tart reply is below (item 5). It is not difficult to guess that the deposition may have proved an 'unprofitable chat' from the Plaintiff's point of view. At this point we were graced with a BULLETIN from Netizen Ward: Date: Mon, 08 Apr 1996 19:49:41 -0700 From: Grady Ward Subject: Re: deposition Brutal, but interesting. Boy I was beginning to believe *their* case after eight hours of solid question and answer... but I came through all right. Now they want to do a full day tomorrow, but I only agreed to nine hours, so it may have to be brought before Magistrate Infante tomorrow after an hour and a half. The entire audio can be downloaded from my web site. http://www.northcoast.com/~grady/Welcome.html Grady (end Bulletin) Some interesting events led up to it. The Plaintiff had asked to examine some of Grady's office equipment, including his shredder and his scanner. On Friday the church offered to save Ward some trouble by inspecting these items at his house. He declined the offer, but agreed to meet a small delegation at the airport in Arcata to show them the requested items. The meeting did not happen as planned. Grady Ward told our correspondent: GW: I spoke on speakerphone with Hogan, McShane, and Kobrin Friday morning. BJ: I thought you were delivering some things to Hogan in person? the shredder, scanner, etc. -- what happened with this? GW: They decided at the last minute not to fly up when they realized most of the responses were "none" and the only material I have is indices from free_agent newsreader and other rather random stuff. I think they were wetting their pants hoping to get even a single admission of copyright or trade secret violation in order to drop all the other allegations and ask the judge for summary judgement. Without this, we are having to go to trial, whenever that will be. And I will be getting in *my* discovery and interrogatories, in that event. Hogan threatened several times to go before Magistrate Judge Edward Infante with my refusal pursuant to E.C.P.A., but I told him I welcome all opportunities to have a judge present in dealing with them. A telephone conversation took place on Friday instead of the planned inspection. This is Ward's account: GW: What happened today was rather interesting. It was like a minideposition. Hogan and Kobrin and McShane talked to me on a speakerphone for about 45 minutes. Hogan wouldn't take the answers as I had written them. He would say questions that assumed facts not in evidence such as "Are you saying that you got rid of the OT documents so that you don't have them now?" or "What exactly was your response after you posted the OTIII documents?" My answers were insistent that the answers were correct as they stood. He would repeat the "admission built into the question" over and over, again and again. I would repeat over and over again and again. "Do you understand, "none"? Kobrin would pipe in with a legal opinion that since I wasn't under oath I could say whatever I wanted. Uh huh. Thanks for the taste of what I going to get from the criminal cult Monday. But then I will be recording it for immortality on the net. Use your argumentation, your fallacies, your browbeating. Make it good. Judge Whyte will love to hear you disobey him. Grady [end] Ward's answer to the discovery request is published later in this issue. Readers will note that it contains a list of names of persons whose correspondence Ward is asked to furnish to RTC. Ward declined, citing the Electronic Communications Privacy Act. ------------------------------ 2. KEITH HENSON IS SUED On Friday night, April 5, Good Friday and the third night of Passover, Keith Henson answered the door and received the following documents: Ex Parte Application For Leave To File Expanded Request for Temporary Restraining Order, Ex Parte Application for Temporary Restraining Order, Order To Show Cause Re: Preliminary Injunction, and Order for Expedited Discovery; Verified Complaint For Injunctive Relief and Damages; and a bundle of supporting material. He was being sued. The documents consist in large part of boilerplate recycled from the Erlich, Ward and Lerma cases. There are signs that it was prepared in haste. The new paperwork, specific to Henson, apparently takes up some 50 pages. The package is too long to quote here. What we will do instead is to quote and comment upon interesting passages. At the end we will publish the entire text of the Verified Complaint. Henson's crimes were so extensive, and the situation so dire that the church [in the person of Religious Technology Center, holder of the Hubbard copyrights, henceforth known as "RTC"] requested permission to file an expanded request for a Temporary Restraining Order, Injunction and Expedited DIscovery. The rules limit such filings to five pages; RTC asked leave to file twenty-two pages. Such requests are routinely granted. In the last episode, net citizen Henson wrote a letter to Judge Ronald Whyte, who had just granted the church a TRO and discovery against Grady Ward. In the letter Henson quoted the full text of one of the NOTS documents. On March 29 Henson attended the hearing for the Grady Ward case and asked whether the Judge considered Ward's TRO to apply to Henson. Was Henson in contempt of court? He was told that he was not a defendant. On March 30 he posted the letter, including NOTs 34, to alt.religion. scientology. Church attorney Helena Kobrin quickly sent him an indignant email message. Henson "flagrantly rebuffed the cease and desist letter..." the RTC attorneys complained. '"Mr. Henson told Mrs. Kobrin that he was "going to put it a little nicer than Grady [Ward] would, but you can take your demand, fold it till it is all corners, and stick it where 'the Sun don't shine."' "He then said he was *again* asking for NOTs or any other Scientology 'AT' [Advanced Technology] materials, acquired by legal, or *illegal* means, further announcing his intention to "post this material in the public interest." (McShane Dec. 6 7, and Ex. H to Complaint and Ex. 3.) Henson promptly posted this email to the net. The arguments the church used to obtain a Temporary Restraining Order, Order for Expedited Discovery and so forth rely upon claims of copyright infringement and trade secret misappropriation. Judge Whyte earlier ruled that the trade secret issue was inapplicable. THe church does not raise this issue against Henson with respect to the six published NOTs (although it reserves the right to do so later), but with respect to the 46 unpublished NOTs. It asks for a restraining order to prevent their publication by Henson, his servants, agents, attorneys, etc.. In the Ex Parte Application for Temporary Restraining Order, RTC stated: "This application is necessitated by the imminent and credible threat of defendant Keith Henson to post or to cause to be posted to the Internet, hundreds of pages of heretofore unpublished, copyrighted, confidential materials of plaintiff Religious Technology Center (RTC), known as New Era Dianetics for Operating Thetans, or "NOTs" materials, which are maintained as trade secrets. (1) The NOTs materials are a series of 55 separate works (e.g., NOTs Series 1, 2, etc.). The trade secret status of these works was recognized in Bridge Publications. Inc.. et al. v. Vien, 827 F.Supp. 629, 633 (S.D.Cal. 1993). "While the majority of the works within the NOTs Series have never appeared on the Internet, six of these works were posted without authorization on the Internet by Dennis Erlich, the defendant in the related case of Religious Technology Center v. Netcom On-Line Comm. Servs.. Inc., 1995 U.S. Dist. Lexis 16184 (ND. Cal. Sept.22, 1995) ("Netcomt"). In that case, Judge Whyte preliminarily enjoined Erlich from further copyright infringements of those six NOTs Works at issue there, but declined to enjoin Erlich under the California Uniform Trade Secrets Act as to those Works in part because of their limited posting to the Internet. "While Netcom and other cases have preliminarily ruled that when trade secret materials have been posted onto the Internet, the owner cannot move for relief under the trade secret laws, plaintiff continues to contest those rulings on the ground that they do not correctly reflect the factual and legal consequences of such rulings. The situation which has arisen recently, and which exists in this case is entirely different." --We read on with interest, but the RTC attorneys never actually explained why the trade secret issue should be looked at differently in Henson's case. With reference to trade secrets, the plaintiff argues on the one hand that without immediate judicial relief, RTC will suffer "extreme and irreversible harm," to wit, the loss of its intellectual property rights. Judge Whyte has already ruled, in effect, that when the NOTS were posted to the net they lost their trade secret status. But later on, in the Request for Temporary Restraining Order and Expedited Discovery, the church wrote: "Of the 55 separate works comprising the NOTs Series, at least 49 have never even arguably been made public. [McShane Declaration] Whether, in fact, the fleeting presence of the six that have been posted on the Internet divested them of trade secret status is a matter that has been ruled adversely to the plaintiff...[RTC v. Netcom, September 22, 1995] The ruling invited the plaintiff to reapply, and they did. "A hearing on the alternate test for the preliminary injunction is set for May 24, 1996 at which time plaintiff intends to demonstrate that there is a serious question going to the merits on the issue of whether, in fact, the postings terminated the trade secrecy of the six NOTs works posted by Dennis Erlich." RTC intends to try to persuade the Judge to change his ruling and attach trade secret status to the published NOTs. Roger Milgrim, author of a famous text on intellectual property rights, was presumably added to the RTC side of the case for this purpose. We concluded that in charging Henson with trade secret violations the church was trying to have its cake and eat it too. If Henson, by merely posting the NOTs, could have destroyed their trade secret status, then his letter could not have destroyed RTC's rights to NOTs 34 because it had already been posted to the net. In fact, it had been posted multiple times and was on alt. religion.scientology at the time this article was being written. If postings to the net are ephemeral and do not affect the status of trade secrets, Henson's posting of the NOTs document could not have injured the plaintiff's property rights. The church takes its intellectual property rights seriously. Plaintiffs said: [Ex Parte Application for TRO & Expedited Discovery] - "RTC derives substantial revenue from the delivery by its limited group of licensees to select parishioners of services utilizing Mr. Hubbard's unpublished literary works containing the Advanced Technology. (McShane Dec., 6 20.) The informational content of the works also derives independent economic value, actual and potential, from not being generally known to other persons who can obtain economic value from their disclosure or use. Plaintiff and its predecessors have taken in the past, and continue to take, extraordinary efforts to protect and maintain the confidentiality and secrecy of the Advanced Technology, carefully limiting physical access to the materials. "The works in question in this case, known as New Era Dianetics for Operating Thetans, or "NOTs" materials, have never left the custody of RTC, its predecessors or authorized licensees except through a theft in Denmark in 1983, for which one of the co-conspirators was arrested, tried and convicted. (McShane Dec., 6 36.) In the past, competing churches have been set up to use those stolen works to deliver competitive services, and other groups exist today which are interested in similarly exploiting these works. Wd., 6 37.) Because the defendant's activities at issue here now jeopardize if not threaten to destroy plaintiffs valuable intellectual property rights, there could be no demonstrably greater need for immediate injunctive relief." --We read this passage several times. The expressions "competing churches" and "competitive services" bothered us. Should an organization be allowed to establish a monopoly under cover of a tax exemption? We tried out "First Church of Chevron, Inc." How far could this hypothetical entity go in suppressing rival filling stations? Could it claim the Sacred Pump Ceremony as a religious rite, even though money is required before a parishioner can receive service? We resolved to read Roger Milgrim's book on trade secrets, hoping to understand more about this fascinating subject. The church does not quite accuse Henson of acting in concert with Grady Ward, but comes _very_ close in the following passage: "Henson also suggested that he was not acting in concert or participation with Ward. His protestation rings hollow, however, in light of his involvement with Ward in other activities, such as a trip to the Church of Scientology in San Francisco to harass the Church and its members. (McShane Dec., 6 9.)" [Ex Parte Application for TRO and Order to Show Cause Re: Preliminary Injunction] With respect to copyright infringement, in the Ex Parte Request for Temporary Restraining Order, etc., RTC attorneys stated "The RTC copyright that Henson has infringed has been registered as part of a collection under 37 C.F.R. [few bits lost in scanner] 202.03(b)(3)(B). Each of the separate works included in such a collection is protected individually and has been infringed by defendant's wholesale reproductions and/or transmissions.[citation] Likewise, Henson's copying, and threat to post, the entirety of the NOTs series is infringement, not fair use." The first part of this passage is confusing. Do the Plaintiffs mean to imply that Henson's publication of one NOTs document is a simultaneous infringement of the remaining 54? The question is important, because when it comes to asking for damages RTC is requesting $100,000 per incident. Further, Henson has apparently published only one of the NOTs: RTC attorneys imply that he has engaged in wholesale copying and/or transmissions of the entire group of NOTs. We wondered whether the RTC had evidence to support the suggestion, or whether Henson is merely a generic suspect in the search for the anonymous posters of church documents to the net. We noted that RTC attorneys once again avoided discussing the issue Henson raised in his letter to Judge Whye. Henson stated that NOTs 34 consituted a series of instructions in unlawful activity. The document, which he quoted in full, describes how to use an e-meter to cure physical illnesses and prevent their return. Henson believes that the use of an e-meter for this purpose constitutes practicing medicine without a license; he argues that because the document is an instruction in a criminal act, the public interest allows its disclosure. When he solicited NOTs, he limited his request to documents which showed criminal or fraudulent activity. The issue of the *content* of NOTs 34 is not addressed by RTC attorneys. Instead, Henson is charged with deliberately and wilfully attempting to destroy the property rights of the Plaintiff. Relief is asked for with reference to the entire NOTs collection. We surmised that the church may have other controversial documents among the NOTs. --------------- 3. RE: THE COMPLAINT AGAINST HENSON In the following document, which contains what is colloquially known as a lawsuit, the Plaintiff claims that the Works, which include the NOTs, were "wholly original with Mr. Hubbard." We noted that the RTC does not acknowledge any contributions by David Mayo. We surmise that this may become an issue if the case goes to trial. RTC requests an injunction against Keith Henson, and all his agents, servants, employees (etc.), of essentially the same form as the requested injunction against Grady Ward. Tucked away near the end is the provision that Henson must turn over to the Plaintiffs not only any copies of the Works that he may have, but "all articles in any media, electronic or otherwise, by means of which such copies may be reproduced." Taken literally, as we assume it is intended, this includes Henson's computer, printer, scanner, system backup tapes, floppy disks, and assorted software. Damages are requested in the sum of $100,000 per infraction, plus legal fees (in the course of a trial this figure may become very large) and other relief as the Court may decide. -------------------------------------------- 4. Not A Good Day For The Church Keith Henson reflected on the subject and wrote the following letter to Judge Whyte: H. Keith Henson 799 Coffey Ct. San Jose, CA 95123 408-521-0614 (beeper) Case No. C 96-20271 RPA Hon. Ronald M. Whyte, Federal Judge Northern District of California San Jose, CA 95113 Hand delivered, April 8, 1996 Dear Judge Whyte: Please excuse the use of a letter instead of the proper form, but I want to give everyone the maximum time to adjust schedules. I request that you recuse yourself from this case. It is *not* for improper behavior or prejudice, but because (as stated in several places in the RTC's filing) you and your clerk have been involved, at least as witnesses, in the events which led up to this lawsuit. I am not well versed in the law, but I am nearly certain that it is improper for a Judge or his clerk to be called as a witness at a trial over which he is presiding. I am willing for the TRO hearing to be held at the time set if that is convenient for another Judge, or the TRO hearing may pushed back up to one week, and I will consider myself to be bound by the TRO until the hearing. Thank you very much for your consideration of this matter, Very Truly Yours, H. Keith Henson cc by email to Helena Kobrin (hkk@netcom.com) Posted [So much for accelerated discovery, our observer said dryly. It is likely that the Judge will recuse himself, and a new hearing date may be set.] ----------------------------------- 5. And Your Computer, Too: The Complaint In Full Thomas R. Hogan, SBN 042048 LAW OFFICES OF THOMAS R. HOGAN 60 South Market Street, Suite 1125 San Jose, CA 95113-2332 (408) 292-7600 Roger M. Milgrim William M. Hart PAUL, HASTINGS, JANOFSKY & WALKER 399 Park Avenue Thirty-first floor New York, New York 10022-4697 (212) 318-6000 Helena K. Kobrin, SBN 152546 7629 Fulton Avenue North Hollywood, CA 91605 (213) 960-1933 Attorneys for Plaintiff RELIGIOUS TECHNOLOGY CENTER UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT ~ ~ ~ I flflA RELIGIOUS TECHNOLOGY CENTER,~ ) ~ j', ' I nr~ California non-profit corporation, Plaintiff, ) VERIFIED COMPLAINT FOR ) INJUNCTIVE RELIEF AND DAMAGES ) FOR: (1) COPYRIGHT V. ) INFRINGEMENT; AND (2) TRADE ) SECRET MISAPPROPRIATION (CAL H. KEITH HENSON, an individual, ) CIV. CODE ' 3426.1) ) Defendant. ) ) ) ORIGINAL FILED APR ()4 1996 RiCHA~D W. WIEK~NG CLERK US. DISTRICT COURT NOR i~~flN ~DiSTRiCT OF CALIFORNIA SAN JOSE Plaintiff Religious Technology Center ("RTC") alleges as follows: INTRODUCTORY AVERMENTS 1. Defendant H. Keith Henson ("Henson") has engaged in a scheme of infringing certain copyrights and misappropriating certain trade secrets belonging to plaintiff. Henson has posted portions of plaintiff's proprietary materials onto the international computer network known as the Internet without authorization from plaintiff and continues to do so despite warnings from plaintiff to cease and desist from his activities in violation of plaintiff's rights. Recent Internet postings by Henson indicate that he is now threatening and poised to engage in massive violations of plaintiff's proprietary rights, is publicly soliciting assistance to do so, and threatens impending copyright infringement and trade secret misappropriation of a host of works which have been judicially recognized as trade secrets and have not previously been posted to the Internet by Henson or anyone else. The need for injunctive relief as to such threatened unlawful undertaking is therefore critical. JURISDICTION AND VENUE 2. Subject matter jurisdiction of this action exists pursuant to 28 U.S.C. '' 1331 and 1338(a) and (b) and 28 U.S.C. ' 2201(a) in that this is an action for declaratory relief as to copyright infringement and for copyright infringement under 17 U.S.C. ' 501. This court has pendent jurisdiction over the trade secret misappropriation claims alleged herein, as unfair competition claims that arise out of the same transactions and occurrences. 3. Venue is proper in this District pursuant to 28 U.S.C. ' 1391(b) in that events or omissions giving rise to the claims occurred in this district and the defendant resides in this judicial district. THE PARTIES 4. Plaintiff RTC is, and was at all times relevant herein, a California non-profit religious corporation having its principal office in the City of Los Angeles, County of Los Angeles, State of California. 5. Plaintiff is informed and believes, and on that basis alleges, that defendant Henson is a citizen and resident of the City of San Jose, County of Santa Clara, State of California. GENERAL AVERMENTS A. The Copyrighted Unpublished Works of L. Ron Hubbard 6. L. Ron Hubbard, a United States citizen who died in 1986, was a world-renowned philosopher and the prolific author of numerous original works on applied religious philosophy and spiritual healing technology, including training materials and course manuals of the Scientology religion (hereinafter the "Religion") of which Mr. Hubbard was the founder. Certain of Mr. Hubbard's original written and recorded works have been published and made generally available, while others have not. Among the unpublished works is a body of special works, sometimes referred to as "Advanced Technology materials," which contains confidential and proprietary information ("the Advanced Technology") constituting trade secrets (the "Works"). 7. Lists of the Works that were created by Mr. Hubbard and are relevant to this action are attached as Exhibits A and B, showing the titles of the works along with the numbers and dates of the applicable United States copyright registrations. Due to the imminence of the harm now threatened by defendant's acts with respect to the Exhibit B Works (which, except for six out of the 55 works, have never been the subject of any postings on the Internet), and in order to seek immediate judicial relief, RTC has not pleaded every Work which defendant may be threatening to infringe. RTC therefore reserves the right to amend this Complaint to add additional Works, and/or to add additional claims and/or parties at a later date and as a result of further factual developments and discovery. 8. In 1982, L. Ron Hubbard assigned to plaintiff RTC his entire right, title and interest (apart from copyrights) in and to the Advanced Technology, including all rights to use and to license the use of the Advanced Technology in the United States. This assignment includes the obligation to protect the confidentiality of the Advanced Technology. A true and correct copy of this assignment is annexed as Exhibit C to this Complaint. 9. Following Mr. Hubbard's death in 1986, ownership of the copyrights in the Works passed to his Estate, which granted to plaintiff RTC, on September 17, 1987, an exclusive license in the copyrights pertaining to the Works, with the right and obligation to enforce all the copyrights in those works. A true and correct copy of this License Agreement is annexed to this complaint as Exhibit D. 10. All of the assets of the Estate of L. Ron Hubbard, including the copyrights pertaining to the Works, were distributed in 1993. The successor in interest to the copyrights affirmed RTC's September 17, 1987 copyright license. A true and correct copy of this Assignment and Assumption is annexed to this complaint as Exhibit E. 11. The Works were wholly original with Mr. Hubbard and are copyrightable subject matter under the laws of the United States. Mr. Hubbard and his successors and licensees have complied in all respects with the copyright laws of the United States, have secured the exclusive rights in and to the copyrights in the Works, and have received from the Register of Copyrights Certificates of Registration of these copyrights. Attached hereto as Exhibit F are true and correct copies of the Certificate of Registration for the Works listed in Exhibits A and B. 12. The Advanced Technology contained in the Works is of immense value to plaintiff, which has taken in the past, and continues to take, extraordinary measures to protect the confidentiality of the Advanced Technology. Physical access to the materials has always been limited and carefully monitored and the materials made available only to a limited group of people for limited purposes. The efforts used to maintain such secrecy have always been more than reasonable under the circumstances including, but not limited to, storage in locked cabinets in locked rooms with access permitted only to select Scientology parishioners who have met stringent requirements, transport of any portion of the materials only in locked briefcases, the presence of security personnel and the execution of written confidentiality agreements. 13. RTC derives independent economic value, actual and potential, from the Advanced Technology, which is secret and of considerable value. RTC receives from the advanced Churches of Scientology which are licensed by RTC to use the Advanced Technology licensing fees equal to six (6) percent of the income received for delivery of Advanced Technology services. These licensing fees provide substantial financial support for RTC's operations. B. Defendant's Violations of Plaintiffs Rights 14. On March 29, 1996, this Court, the Honorable Ronald M. Whyte, United States District Judge, presiding, stated that he would issue a preliminary injunction against the defendant in the case encaptioned Religious Technology Center v. Grady Ward, and assigned case number 96-20207 RMW (the "Ward case"). That injunction was issued by the Court on April 1, 1996, in response, inter alia, to plaintiffs showing that the defendant in the Ward case had made postings of RTC's copyrighted and trade secret material, was threatening additional postings of a similar, unlawful nature, and had solicited public assistance in that enterprise by soliciting copies of plaintiff's proprietary materials from anyone in possession thereof. The Court announced in open court that a preliminary injunction would issue in a proceeding at which defendant Henson was present. Henson--with no prior relationship whatsoever to either RTC or Scientology--thereupon set out to duplicate the very conduct that justified the injunction against the defendant in the Ward case, justifying his conduct and intended conduct on the grounds that the Court's order did not apply to his own actions, and that in his view, the plaintiff is not entitled to exercise the very intellectual property rights underlying the preliminary injunction issued in the Ward case. 15. On or about March 30, 1996, Henson infringed RTC's copyrights in the Work listed in Exhibit A by reproducing this Work in its entirety and by electronically displaying or distributing it on the Internet. Henson titled his electronic display or posting, "An Open Letter to Judge Whyte," and stated in the posting that he had read, in its entirety, the Temporary Restraining Order issued by this Court on March 21, 1996 in the Ward case against Grady Ward, "his officers, agents, servants, employees, and attorneys, and to those persons in active concert or participation with him." A true and correct copy of the Temporary Restraining Order is attached hereto as Exhibit G. The Temporary Restraining Order plainly prohibited the displaying or distribution on the Internet of a series of plaintiff's Works, including the Work displayed by Henson. In that posting, he also solicited copies of the Exhibit B Works to be sent to him. 16. On March 30, 1996, counsel for RTC notified Henson, via electronic mail, that he had violated RTC's copyright and trade secret rights and the Court's Temporary Restraining Order by posting the Exhibit A Work and soliciting the Exhibit B Works, and demanded that Henson "cease and desist from any and all further posting, reproduction, display, distribution, solicitation or acquisition" of the Work or any of the Advanced Technology works of the Scientology religion. 17. Henson responded to RTC's notice and cease and desist demand by: a. Telling RTC's counsel that she could "take your demand, fold it till it is all corners, and stick it where 'the Sun don't shine.' b. Reposting the Work identified in Exhibit A on the Internet; c. Soliciting additional copies of the Exhibit B Works "acquired by legal, or *illegal* means" from any and all readers on the Internet; d. Threatening to post some or all of these Works to the Internet. A true and correct copy of Mr. Henson's communication to counsel is attached hereto as Exhibit H. 18. No one has access to the Works without permission from plaintiff or unless they were obtained through illicit means. As the only way the Exhibit A and B Works have ever left authorized possession was through theft, Henson could only have obtained copies of these materials by having received stolen property or the fruits thereof from another. 19. Plaintiff is informed and believes, and on that basis alleges, that Henson has copied and/or induced others to copy and has wrongfully acquired and now threatens to and intends imminently to post to the Internet the Works listed in Exhibit B hereto, in whole or in part, thereby causing serious, irreparable harm to RTC's copyright and trade secret rights, if not immediately restrained from doing so. The prayer for interlocutory relief below relates to the Works in Exhibit B only. 20. As a result of the foregoing, Henson has reproduced, displayed, and distributed RTC's Work listed on Exhibit A, all without the authorization of plaintiff. Henson has thereby infringed RTC's copyrights to the Exhibit A Work and, on information and belief, is threatening to misappropriate RTC's trade secrets and to infringe its copyrights in the Exhibit B Works. 21. Plaintiff is informed and believes, and on that basis alleges, that at all times relevant herein, Henson knew or had reason to know that the Works listed on Exhibits A and B had been acquired under circumstances giving rise to a duty to maintain their secrecy. 22. Plaintiff is informed and believes, and on that basis alleges that, at all times relevant herein, Henson knew or had reason to know that the Works listed in Exhibit B had been acquired from or through a person who owed a duty to plaintiff to maintain their secrecy. 23. Plaintiff is informed and believes, and on that basis alleges that, at all times relevant herein, Henson knew or had reason to know that the Works listed in Exhibit B had been obtained through improper means. 24. All copying and actual or attempted acquisition of the Works listed in Exhibits A and B has been unauthorized and constitutes or threatens copyright infringement and trade secret misappropriation, and the electronic display or distribution of the Work listed in Exhibit A has been unauthorized and constitutes wilful copyright infringement. 25. Upon information and belief, defendant has caused and/or induced others to participate in the aforesaid and threatened infringements and violations of plaintiffs rights, has provided the means and instrumentalities for doing so, has actively participated in the aforesaid and threatened infringements and violations, has the right, opportunity and means to supervise and control such activities and has exercised the same to plaintiffs severe detriment, and will continue to do so and has derived and will derive direct and indirect benefits from all of the foregoing activities, which defendant has engaged in knowingly, wilfully and with the intent to injure plaintiff and irreparably impair its rights. 26. Unless restrained by this Court, defendant will continue to engage in the acts complained of herein and will carry out the threatened acts complained of herein, and RTC will incur irreparable injury, for which there is no adequate remedy at law. 27. As a direct and proximate result of the foregoing acts of defendant, plaintiff has suffered and will suffer damages in an amount which cannot now be ascertained or computed. FIRST CLAIM FOR RELIEF (Declaratory Judgment of Copyright Infringement 17 U.S.C. ' 101 et seq. and 28 U.S.C. ' 2201(a)) 28. Plaintiff incorporates by reference the allegations contained in paragraphs 1 through 27 above as though set forth fully herein. 29. The Works are protected under the Copyright Act of 1976, 17 U.S.C. '' 101 et seq. 30. An actual case or controversy has arisen in which plaintiff contends that defendant has recently solicited and engaged in making unauthorized copies of RTC's copyrighted, unpublished Works and has also been threatening the posting of the Works listed in Exhibit B hereto, which threat is real, imminent, and likely to be carried out. 31. In light of defendant's pattern of behavior and his current activities, plaintiff contends defendant intends imminently to engage in massive infringements of RTC's copyrighted, unpublished Works listed in Exhibit B hereto and that, based upon the facts relevant hereto, plaintiff entertains a real and reasonable apprehension of infringement. 32. The acts, including the threatened acts set forth in paragraphs 1, 15, 17, 19, and 25 above are imminent and do and will infringe RTC's exclusive rights, inter alia to publish, reproduce, display, and distribute the unpublished Works listed in Exhibit B hereto, all in violation of RTC's exclusive copyrights under 17 U.S.C. ' 106. Such acts constitute copyright infringement under 17 U.S.C. ' 501; and wilful copyright infringement under 17 U.S.C. ' 504. 33. RTC seeks, pursuant to Rule 57 of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure, a declaratory judgment that defendant has no right to engage in any such reproduction, distribution, display or other exploitation, by any means, of RTC's copyrighted unpublished Works set forth in Exhibit B, that plaintiff never authorized defendant to do so, but instead, repeatedly notified defendant that such acts would constitute, inter alia copyright infringement and that such acts, separately and together, constitute wilful copyright infringement of the Works set forth in Exhibit B pursuant to 17 U.S.C. '501, et seq. SECOND CLAIM FOR RELIEF (Copyright Infringement of Unpublished Works 17 U.S.C. '' 101 et seq.) 34. Plaintiff incorporates by reference the allegations contained in paragraphs 1 through 27 and 29 through 33 above as though set forth fully herein. 35. The foregoing acts of defendant, as undertaken and threatened, infringe plaintiffs exclusive rights, inter alia, to publish, reproduce, distribute and display the Works listed in Exhibits A and B hereto, all in violation of plaintiffs ] exclusive copyrights under 17 U.S.C. ' 106. Such acts constitute copyright infringement under 17 U.S.C. ' 501 and have contributed to infringement by others. 36. Defendant's unlawful acts set forth above constitute wilful copyright infringement under 17 U.S.C. ' 504. THIRD CLAIM FOR RELIEF (Misappropriation of Trade Secrets) 37. Plaintiff incorporates by reference the allegations in paragraphs 1 through 27 above as though set forth fully herein. 38. By his aforesaid acts, defendant has wrongfully acquired, or is about to, and threatens imminently to disclose, all without authorization, confidential, trade secret information constituting portions of the Advanced Technology that are contained in the Works listed in Exhibit B hereto. 39. Defendant's acts, as undertaken and threatened, as aforesaid, were and are done with full knowledge that the Works contain confidential trade secrets information, and with intent to destroy that property interest in confidential information. 40. By his aforesaid acts as undertaken and threatened, defendant has misappropriated and threatens to further misappropriate RTC's trade secrets in violation of RTC's rights under California law, California Civil Code ' 3426.1 et seq. WHEREFORE, plaintiff prays for the entry of judgment against defendant as follows: 1. ON THE FIRST CLAIM FOR RELIEF: For a declaratory judgment in favor of RTC and against defendant that any publication, reproduction, derivation, distribution, display or performance of the Exhibit B Works by defendant constitutes copyright infringement, entitling RTC, inter alia to temporary, preliminary and permanent injunctive relief, to actual damages, a disgorgement of profits, and in lieu of such monetary remedies, should plaintiff so elect, for statutory damages for wilful infringement. 2. ON THE FIRST AND SECOND CLAIMS FOR RELIEF: (a) For an order that defendant and all of his agents, servants, employees, partners, privies and attorneys, and all persons acting or purporting to act under his authority, direction or control, and all persons in active concert or participation with him, or acting on his behalf, having advance notice of this order, be enjoined from directly or indirectly, in whole or in part, publishing, reproducing, distributing, performing, or creating derivative works based upon, during the pendency of this action, the Exhibit B Works, or any of them, and permanently thereafter, any of the copyrighted works of L. Ron Hubbard including, but not limited to, the Works identified in Exhibits A and/or B, in any media now known or hereafter developed in any time, place or fashion, and in particular, from engaging in any such acts in, on, or in connection with any computer, database, information service, electronic bulletin board service, network, storage facility, or archives, or other electronic or computer device, service, network or facility, including, without limitation, the transmitting or loading of any such materials onto, or downloading any copies thereof from any such device, service, network or facility and that all such copies which defendant, his agents, servants, employees, partners, privies, and attorneys and those in active concert or participation with them have caused to be copied or copied onto any such device, service, network, or facility be removed; 3. ON THE SECOND CLAIM FOR RELIEF: (a) For an order impounding all copies made or used in violation of RTC's exclusive rights, and of all plates, molds, matrices, masters, tapes, film negatives, or other articles in any media, electronic or otherwise, by means of which such copies may be reproduced including but not limited to all such copies and articles located in any so-called "off-site" storage areas, electronic or otherwise; (b) For an award of plaintiff's attorneys' fees and costs pursuant to 17 U.S.C. '505. (c) For an award of damages to plaintiff against defendant, according to proof at trial, and for all gains, profits and advantages directly or indirectly derived by defendant from his infringement of the copyrights of plaintiff in the Works; or in lieu thereof, should plaintiff so elect, for an award of statutory damages to plaintiff under 17 U.S~C. ' 504(c) (l) of $100,000.00 for each of the Works infringed by defendant, pursuant to 17 U.S.C. ' 504(c)(2); and 4. ON THE THIRD CLAIM FOR RELIEF; (a) For an order that defendant and all of his agents, servants, employees, partners, privies and attorneys, and all persons acting or purporting to act under his authority, direction or control, and all persons in active concert or participation with him, or acting on his behalf, having advance notice of this order, be enjoined: (1) directly or indirectly, from engaging in the further unauthorized disclosure, or display of the Exhibit B Works (excluding only NOTs series 1, 24, 34, 35 and 42, which are also the subject of other pending litigation), during the pendency of this action, and permanently of the Exhibit B Works, or portions thereof, and specifically from disclosing, displaying, transmitting or otherwise loading any of those Works, or portions thereof, in any media now known or hereafter developed in any time, place or fashion, or onto any computer, database, information service, electronic bulletin board service, network, storage facility, or archives, or other electronic or computer device, service, network or facility and that all such copies which defendant, his agents, servants, employees, partners, privies, and attorneys and those in active concert or participation with them have caused to be copied or copied onto any such device, service, network, or facility be removed; (2) directly or indirectly, from engaging in the further unauthorized solicitation and/or acquirement, during the pendency of this action and permanently of the Exhibit B, and specifically from soliciting, acquiring, seeking to acquire, or otherwise downloading any of the Exhibit B Works, or portions thereof, from any media now known or hereafter developed in any time, place or fashion, or from any computer, database, information service, electronic bulletin board service, network, storage facility, or archives, or other electronic or computer device, service, network or facility and that all such copies which defendant, his agents, servants, employees, partners, privies, and attorneys and those in active concert or participation with them have caused to be copied or copied from any such device, service, network, or facility be removed; (b) For an order directing defendant, and all of his agents, servants, employees, partners, privies and attorneys, and all persons acting or purporting to act under his authority, direction or control, and all persons in active concert or participation with him, or acting on his behalf, having advance notice of this order, to return immediately to counsel of record herein for plaintiff Religious Technology Center all documents in their possession, custody or control (including but not limited to those documents located in any so-called "off-site" storage facility, electronic or otherwise) that contain any of the Advanced Technology; and (c) For an award of attorney fees under California Civil Code ' 3426.4. 5. ON THE FIRST, SECOND, AND THIRD CLAIMS FOR RELIEF: For an order that defendant and all of his agents, servants, employees, partners, privies and attorneys, and all persons acting or purporting to act under his authority, direction or control, and all persons in active concert or participation with him, or acting on his behalf, having advance notice of this order, be enjoined from: (a) directly or indirectly destroying, altering or concealing, or in any way disposing of, any reproduction, copy, facsimile, excerpt, or derivative of any work of L. Ron Hubbard that is in defendant's possession, custody or control, in whole or in part, including, but not limited to, those materials located in any so-called "off-site" storage areas, electronic or otherwise, or otherwise despoiling or causing the despoliation, or alteration of any evidence, in whole or in part, in any form, place or media relating to defendant's conduct complained of in this action; and (b) causing or inducing any other person to engage in any of the foregoing prohibited acts; and, (c) filing with the Court, except under seal, any documents that contain any of the Advanced Technology. 6. For such other and further relief as this Court deems just and proper. DATED: April 4, 1996 Thomas R. Hogan LAW OFFICES OF THOMAS R. HOGAN Roger M. Milgrim William M. Hart PAUL, HASTINGS, JANOFSKY & WALKER -and- Helena Kobrin Attorneys for Plaintiff RELIGIOUS TECHNOLOGY CENTER ----------------------------------------- 6. Bite Me RTC: Grady Ward's Response to the Request for Production of Documents And Things > Grady Ward > In Pro Se > 3449 Martha Ct. > Arcata, CA 95521-4884 > grady@northcoast.com > http://www.northcoast.com/~grady/Welcome.html > > UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT > FOR THE NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA > > RELIGIOUS TECHNOLOGY CENTER, a ) No. C 96-20207 > California non-profit corporation, ) > ) OBJECTIONS AND RESPONSES > Plaintiff, ) TO REQUEST FOR PRODUCTION > ) OF DOCUMENTS AND THINGS; > v. ) ACKNOWLEDGE NOTICE OF > ) DEPOSITION > GRADY WARD ) > ) > Defendant. ) > ____________________________________) > > TO ALL PARTIES AND THEIR ATTORNEYS OF RECORD: > > PLEASE TAKE NOTICE THAT pursuant to written stipulation, Rule 30 of > the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure, and the Court's order, plaintiff > RELIGIOUS TECHNOLOGY CENTER does hereby notice the deposition of GRADY > WARD to be taken at Crnich Deposition located at 626 "H" Street, > Eureka, California 95501, commencing at 9:00 a.m. on April 8, 1996, > and continuing from day to day thereafter, as approved by the Court, > excluding Saturday, Sunday and holidays, until completed before a > notary public authorized to administer the oath. The deposition will > be recorded stenographically and may be recorded by sound and > visually. > > ACKNOWLEDGE AS PER COMPROMISE WITH JUDGE WHYTE THAT DEPOSITION WILL BE > LIMITED TO ONE EIGHT HOUR SESSION, WITH AND ADDITIONAL HOUR GRANTED > BECAUSE OF EUREKA LOCATION. THIS TIME MAY BE DIVIDED OVER TWO DAYS IN > ANY PROPORTION DESIRED BY PLAINTIFF. > > PLEASE TAKE FURTHER NOTICE THAT Mr. Ward is hereby requested, pursuant > to Rule 34 of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure, written > stipulation, and the Court's order, to > > produce at the Law Offices of Thomas R. Hogan, Esq., 60 South Market > Street, Suite 1125, San Jose, California 95113, on April 6, 1996, or > as otherwise specified herein, the documents > > and things requested in Exhibit A attached hereto which are in the > possession, custody, or control of Mr. Ward. Should the deposition be > postponed for any reason, you will remain obligated to produce > documents on this date. > > UNCONTESTED DOCUMENTS AND THINGS WILL BE PRESENTED FRIDAY, APRIL 5, > 1996 IN ARCATA, CALIFORNIA AS ARRANGED BY PLAINTIFF AND DEFENDANT. > > Dated: April 4, 1996 > > Grady Ward > > In Pro Se > > ___________________________________ > > DOCUMENTS AND THINGS TO BE PRODUCED > > 1. All copies of the OT III documents which were posted to the > Internet in or about February, 1995 under the header attached hereto > as Exhibit 1. > > NO DOCUMENTS POSSESSED > > 2. All copies of NED for OTs Series 1 which was posted to the Internet > in or about February, 1995 under the header attached hereto as Exhibit > 2. > > NO DOCUMENTS POSSESSED > > 3. Any and all documents relating to posting, reproduction, > distribution, or display of works of L. Ron Hubbard, including but not > limited to, the Works. > > NO DOCUMENTS POSSESSED > > 4. Any and all documents relating to your solicitation from others of > copies of works of L. Ron Hubbard, including but not limited to, the > Works. > > NO DOCUMENTS POSSESSED > > 5. All documents which you have received as a result of your > solicitation of NOTs materials, OT materials, or other Scientology > materials. > > NO DOCUMENTS POSSESSED > > 6. All documents relating to posting of Scientology materials on the > Internet, including without limitation, ftp sites, web sites, or > newsgroups. > > NO DOCUMENTS POSSESSED > > 7. Any and all documents relating to acquisition of any Advanced > Technology documents. > > NO DOCUMENTS POSSESSED > > 8. Any and all document relating to the identify of any individual who > has posted any of the Advanced Technology to the Internet, either > under that person's own name or via an anonymous remailer. > > NO DOCUMENTS POSSESSED > > 9. Any and all documents relating to postings made by you, whether > under you own name, a pseudonym, or anonymously to the USENET > newsgroups entitled alt.religion.scientology, alt.2600, alt.activism, > comp.org.eff.talk, or any other newsgroup relating to the Advanced > Technology. > > NO DOCUMENTS POSSESSED > > 10. Any and all documents relating to the posting of Advanced > Technology documents to the USENET newsgroup entitled > alt.religion.scientology, including, without limitation, copies of > such postings or discussions of such postings, whether actual or > planned. > > NO DOCUMENTS POSSESSED > > 11. Any and all documents relating to postings of Advanced Technology > materials, including, but not limited to, actual postings or > discussions of such postings, whether actual or planned, made through > the following servers: > > a. freezone.remailer > > b. nately.ucsd.edu > > c. penet.fi > > d. replay.comm > > e. utopia.backtic.nl > > NO DOCUMENTS POSSESSED > > 12. All documents relating to communications between you and anyone > regarding your posting of works by or alleged to be by L. Ron Hubbard, > whether under your own name, a pseudonym, or anonymously, including, > but not limited to, discussions prior to or following such postings. > > NO DOCUMENTS POSSESSED > > 13. Any and all documents relating to communications with the > following individuals relating to the Advanced Technology: > > a. Alex DeJoode > > b. Dennis Erlich > > c. Steven Fishman > > d. Johan Helsingius > > e. Jeff Jacobsen > > f. Keith Henson > > g. Tom Klemesrud > > h. Arnaldo Lerma > > i. Peter Mante > > j. Ron Neuman > > k. Robert Penny > > l. Felipe Rodriquez > > m. Karin Spaink > > n. Shelly Thomson > > o. David Touretzky > > p. Lawrence Wollersheim > > OBJECT BECAUSE OF 18 U.S.C. 2700, et sqq. (E.C.P.A.) > > 14. All documents showing the name, address, and/or telephone number > of anyone to whom you have sent Advanced Technology materials, whether > in hard copy or electronic form. > > NO DOCUMENTS POSSESSED > > 15. All documents showing the name, address, and/or telephone number > of anyone who has sent Advanced Technology materials to you, whether > in hard copy or electronic form. > > NO DOCUMENTS POSSESSED > > 16. All documents sent to you by Arnaldo Lerma related to the Advanced > Technology, including, but not limited to, transmissions or > discussions of such documents. > > NO DOCUMENTS POSSESSED > > 17. Any and all documents relating to the licensing or customer > agreement between you and any Internet access provider. > > OBJECT BECAUSE OF NON-RELEVANCE; any event it would be identical to > the customer agreement currently in force as on file with the > provider. > > 18. Any and all documents regarding Netcom On-Line Communication > Services, Inc. or any other Internet access provider warning you > regarding the posting of copyrighted materials on the Internet or any > other activity by you through that access provider's facilities. > > OBJECT BECAUSE OF NON-RELEVANCE > > 19. Any and all documents relating to Netcom On-Line Communication > Services, Inc. or any other Internet access provider taking > disciplinary action against you regarding the posting of copyrighted > materials on the Internet or any other activity by you through that > access provider's facilities. > > OBJECT BECAUSE OF NON-RELEVANCE > > 20. Any and all documents relating to Scamizdat, including, without > limitation, persons in active concert or participation with Scamizdat, > acting on its behalf, or controlling its activities. > > WILL PROVIDE GROUP INDICES TO USENET VIEWING APPLICATION, possible > e-mails OBJECT BECAUSE OF 18 U.S.C. 2700, et sqq. (E.C.P.A.), for all > other categories, NO DOCUMENTS POSSESSED. > > 21. Any and all documents relating to postings by Scamizdat on the > Internet, including, without limitation, the posting themselves, > predictions of such postings, and references to Scamizdat. > > NO DOCUMENTS POSSESSED > > 22. All documents relating to the First Electronic Church of > SCAMIZDAT. > > NO DOCUMENTS POSSESSED > > 23. All documents on which you based your posting of August 1, 1995 > which stated that "SCAMIZDAT #10 is going to post the complete Fishman > appendices, including all the OT levels I-VIII." > > NO DOCUMENTS POSSESSED > > 24. All documents upon which you based your "suspicions," as > referenced in The Recorder of March 25, 1996, about the identity of > SCAMIZDAT. > > NO DOCUMENTS POSSESSED > > 25. Any and all documents relating to confidentiality agreements > pertaining to the Works. > > NO DOCUMENTS POSSESSED > > 26. All documents relating to communications you have received from or > sent to any representative of Religious Technology Center or any > Church of Scientology, including any attorney acting on their behalf. > > WILL PROVIDE "Lanham Act" LETTER; "Service" LETTER > > 27. All documents relating to your attempts to discredit Helena Kobrin > as an attorney acting on behalf of Religious Technology Center in > protecting its intellectual property rights. > > OBJECT BECAUSE OF INCOMPREHENSIBILITY OF QUESTION and, without > prejudice to the first objection, OBJECT BECAUSE OF NON-RELEVANCE > > 28. All documents relating to telephone records from July 1, 1994 to > the present. > > OBJECT BECAUSE OF NON-RELEVANCE > > 29. All documents concerning the use by you, or anyone acting directly > or indirectly under your control or in concert or participation with > you, of storage facilities away from your primary residence. > > NO DOCUMENTS POSSESSED > > 30. All documents discussing your scanning of any writings by L. Ron > Hubbard, including, but not limited to, Advanced Technology materials, > books, policy letters, bulletins, and transcripts of any audio or > video taped materials, or any other materials related to the Church of > Scientology, on your computer. > > NO DOCUMENTS POSSESSED > > 31. All documents relating to software programs which you have created > regarding any of the following: anonymous remailers, USENET news, > Internet access, scanning of documents onto computer media, uploading > or downloading of documents onto computer media, encryption of > computer transmissions or files, lexicons, Scientology materials, or > copyrights. > > WILL PROVIDE LEXICON SOFTWARE; otherwise, NO DOCUMENTS POSSESSED > > 32. All documents relating to software programs which you use > regarding any of the following: anonymous remailers, USENET news, > Internet access, scanning of documents onto computer media, uploading > or downloading of documents onto computer media, encryption of > computer transmission or files, lexicons, Scientology materials, or > copyrights. > > COMPUTER MANUALS, BOTH ELECTRONIC AND PAPER WILL BE PROVIDED ON > FRIDAY, APRIL 5, 1996 FOR INSPECTION, AS PER APRIL 3, 1996 HOGAN > CONVERSATION > > 33. All documents relating to any works which you have written > regarding any of the following: anonymous remailers, USENET news, > Internet access, scanning of documents onto computer media, uploading > or downloading of documents onto computer media, encryption of > computer transmission or files, lexicons, Scientology materials, or > copyrights. > > LEXICON MATERIAL PROVIDED AS PART OF 31.; otherwise NO DOCUMENTS > POSSESSED > > 34. All shredders. > > TO BE PROVIDED FOR INSPECTION; WILL BE PROVIDED ON FRIDAY APRIL 5, > 1996 FOR INSPECTION, AS PER APRIL 3, 1996 HOGAN CONVERSATION > > 35. All scanning equipment. > > TO BE PROVIDED FOR INSPECTION; WILL BE PROVIDED ON FRIDAY APRIL 5, > 1996 FOR INSPECTION, AS PER APRIL 3, 1996 HOGAN CONVERSATION > > 36. All locks which you place on any cabinet or other container in > which you have placed Scientology materials. > > NONE SATISFY REQUEST > > 37. All documents relating to procedures for shredding documents, > either hard copy or in electronic form. > > EXCEPT FOR USER'S MANUAL, NO DOCUMENTS POSSESSED ----------------------------------------- 7. **Biased Journalism** MAKES HIT LIST The publisher of **Biased Journalism** wrote the following letter to Judge Whyte: Shelley Thomson 236 Stanford S/C, Suite 142 Palo Alto, CA 94304 Hon. Ronald M. Whyte, Federal Judge Northern District of California San Jose, CA April 4, 1996 No. C 96-20207 RMW Hand Delivered Letter to Judge Whyte Dear Judge Whyte: I am the publisher of **Biased Journalism**, a news/humor magazine covering issues of interest to citizens of cyberspace. Among other events the Journal has covered a series of hearings now taking place in your courtroom. I was shocked to see my name on the list of documents demanded by Plaintiffs from Mr. Ward. The relevant selection from the Notice of Deposition of Defendant Grady Ward and Request for Production of Documents And Things is the following: >13. Any and all documents relating to communications with the following >individuals relating to the Advanced Technology: >a. Alex DeJoode >b. Dennis Erlich >c. Steven Fishman >d. Johan Helsingius >e. Jeff Jacobsen >f. Keith Henson >g. Tom Klemesrud >h. Arnaldo Lerma >i. Peter Mante >j. Ron Neuman >k. Robert Penny >l. Felipe Rodriquez >m. Karin Spaink >n. Shelly Thomson *** >o. David Touretzky >p. Lawrence Wollersheim **Biased Journalism** has carried many stories about scientology. As a journalist, I strongly protest the inclusion of my name on this list. The exposure of my private communication would have an extreme chilling effect upon my ability to gather and publish news. It is an infringement of my rights under the First Amendment. Moreover, it might expose third parties to harm. With reference to the Electronic Communications Privacy Act (section 2700-2707 of Title 18 USC), it is my understanding that lawful access to stored electronic communications requires a warrant or a court order. Even if the ECPA were disregarded, I suggest to Your Honor that the right to privacy of Mr. Ward's correspondents should be protected. I believe that at minimum, Plaintiffs should be required to show cause for their request for each person's correspondence individually. I request such a hearing on my own behalf, so that I may explain to the court why my correspondence with Grady Ward should not be delivered to the Plaintiffs. Sincerely yours, Shelley Thomson publisher, **Biased Journalism** The Judge has not replied. The End