Subject: COST hearing, April 26th, 1996 From: mayo@lightlink.com (David Mayo) Date: 1996/04/27 Message-Id: <4luna3$r8@light.lightlink.com> Sender: electra@light.lightlink.com Organization: Art Matrix - Lightlink Electra Gateway v2.4 Newsgroups: alt.religion.scientology -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- A hearing was held in San Mateo Superior Court n Friday morning in the case of COST v. CNC, David Mayo and Julia Mayo, (Case No. 389471). Here is a brief (very) summary of the results. During discovery in this case we had asked for the production of the settlement agreement between Scientology entities and Gerbode. It is relevant because COST is suing us based on an alleged transfer of a loan agreement that Gerbode endorsed to COST as part of his settlement with other Scientology entities. This and other considerations between Gerbode and Scientology were memorialized in that settlement agreement and thus it is vital evidence in this lawsuit. COST refused to produce it. COST then had wanted to take one of my lawyers depositions again. The court was considering appointing a discovery referee to handle discovery disputes at the (possibly considerable) expense of the parties. 1. We had argued that we could not afford to pay for a discovery referee and that requiring us to do so would deny us access to justice. (COST asserted that we could.) Result: No discovery referee was appointed, (as we had hoped). 2. COST's demand to take my lawyer's deposition again. 3. Our request for production of the settlement agreement was approved by the court but the court extensively redacted the agreement at COST's request based on there being parties to that agreement who are not parties to this lawsuit. Overall, we were successful in two of the three issues and COST was partly successful in the third. This case is currently scheduled for trial in June. Rev. David Mayo (finger for key) PGP ID: 1024/4D5EE559 1996/01/04 PGP Fingerprint: 0D 69 92 87 79 2F 38 72 FE 03 CE 51 31 D5 6D E9 ***************************************************************** -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: 2.6.2 iQCVAwUBMYK/s+mCyCdNXuVZAQGJ8QP9HBIWfsRexMebMkz7cCdKEBeLqSfcpdv0 FBt82SUHwWVEUpuEwibzHOYkb5aaLzfmteRIqTp7sDOsBcNh/Cp2PGv/sSI3/E1K mKL7IXvnxEz3YnQGAk1TYTVmnTfaflUMba2tQ8y5oGRC/DeNqM0TMDPCMIXykVBN pSwyEMjBcmQ= =NO48 -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----