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1124:Religious Technology Center v Lerma
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1532:Cult Awareness Network
1700:A Token of My Extreme
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912:Death of Elli Perkins
358:right to a fair trial
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151:Church of Scientology
102:Beliefs and practices
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416:on 30 December 2009.
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1507:Applied Scholastics
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988:Scientology and Me
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