Ryan Hamilton files federal lawsuit against Narconon Fresh Start in Nevada

IANAL, but I doubt it. Obvious meaning is obvious enough.

Thx!

The man is the energizer bunny. Go get 'em Ryan!

Ryan Hamilton’s Narconon lawsuits

In some of the 13 federal lawsuits Las Vegas attorney Ryan Hamilton has filed against Scientology’s rehab facilities in California, Nevada, and Colorado, attorneys have filed for extensions to give them more time to answer. But we do now have an answer from Narconon in one of the lawsuits. It has a bit of a “bring it on” brashness to it, which we find entertaining. Give it a look.

http://tonyortega.org/2014/06/18/sc...at-the-garcias-and-vance-woodward-fires-back/

Since 'Fresh Start' doesn't seem to know where the "mother ship" is located, this is what the IRS has on file for narCONon Internation:

EIN: 952769582
NARCONON INT
4652 HOLLYWD BLVD
LOS ANGELES CA 90027-5408
Group Exemption Number (GEN): 2595
03 = Parent Entity of Group Exemption (Subordinate Entities have '06' after the 2595)

BigBeard

They must feel pretty silly sending off 10% of gross income every week to Narconon International when they have no idea who they are.
http://web.archive.org/web/20040715164506/www.able.org/pages/grp_forms/nn_lic_agr.pdf

At first glance, the update to this case seems farked. The Geanacopolus response does not match up to the original complaint previously published: http://www.scribd.com/doc/220017114/Geanacopulos-vs-Narconon-Complaint

But on closer inspection, the current docket in PACER shows that this case had an amended complaint filed on May 4th that we did not see before:
http://www.archive.org/download/gov.uscourts.nvd.100967/gov.uscourts.nvd.100967.4.0.pdf

Major changes to the amended complaint include the following additions:

• ALTER EGO LIABILITY section on page 9,
• FIFTH CAUSE OF ACTION - CIVIL RICO FOR MAIL AND WIRE FRAUD on page 12,
• EIGHTH CAUSE OF ACTION - BREACH OF IMPLIED COVENANT OF GOOD FAITH AND FAIR DEALING on page 14,
• NINTH CAUSE OF ACTION - CIVIL CONSPIRACY,
• And a "treble damages" remedy under PRAYER FOR RELIEF.

Treble damages is an interesting twist, according to this definition:
http://www.law.cornell.edu/wex/treble_damages

Triple the lurve for Mr. Hamilton <3 <3 <3

Don't forget this goody:

If narCONon gets nailed on this one, it could lead to criminal charges that puts someone behind bars.

BigBeard

Ryan Hamilton files lawsuit 14 against Scientology’s drug rehab, and other updates

Our legal helpers have been working overtime as it gets tougher and tougher to keep an eye on everything going on in Scientology litigation around the country.

Las Vegas attorney Ryan Hamilton keeps plowing away, and has filed yet another federal fraud lawsuit against Scientology’s drug rehab network, Narconon.

Once again, an unhappy former customer of Scientology’s Nevada rehab facility — Rainbow Canyon Retreat, also known as Narconon Fresh Start — is the plaintiff, in this case Ronald McClure and his son Jason, of Arizona.

Ronald called Narconon on May 19, 2013, and spoke to Dan Carmichael, who “made numerous material false representations” about the rehab center.

Ronald was told that his son would get drug counseling and would be treated by medical professionals. He was also told that the facility had a better than 76-percent success rate, and that Jason would go through a sauna program.

Ronald paid $33,000 up front to get Jason started, and when he got there, he realized that his father had been lied to. As we’ve seen in so many other lawsuits, patients at Narconon facilities receive Scientology training rather than drug counseling, there are no medical professionals on hand, and the sauna program is straight out of Scientology and has no scientific basis.

“Jason left Fresh Start early because he did not feel safe and the program bore no resemblance to what Plaintiffs had been promised. Jason left Fresh Start in worse condition than he entered.”

Here’s the complaint:

<snipped>

By our count, that’s fourteen federal lawsuits Hamilton has filed against Narconon in California, Nevada, and Colorado.

Angelo Amato (San Diego)
Christy Estrada and Branden Chavez (San Diego)
Cathy and Michael Tarr (Nevada)
Harry and Lauren Geanacopulos (Nevada)
David, Stacy, and Jack Welch (Nevada)
Bryan and Nikki Mott (Colorado)
Charles and Tyler Matthys, and Linda Phillips (Colorado)
Kenneth and Jered Mowery (Watsonville, CA)
Robin Jones, James Ramirez Sr. and Jr. (Watsonville, CA)
Charis Yates, Beret and Dean Pugh (Nevada)
Lori, Ryan, and Jilliene Winchell (Nevada)
Ben Levy (Colorado)
Monica and Sean O’Connell (Watsonville, CA)

More at
http://tonyortega.org/2014/06/21/ry...entologys-drug-rehab-and-other-legal-updates/

Is it "big list" time yet?

I'll bet OSA has one....

Ryan Hamilton files lawsuit number fifteen

Las Vegas attorney Ryan Hamilton has filed yet another federal fraud lawsuit against Scientology’s drug rehab network, Narconon. This one involves a Nevada father who sent his son to the Narconon Fresh Start facility in that state, Rainbow Canyon Retreat in the town of Caliente.

In October, David Tino was looking for a rehab facility for his son, Michael. He called the 800 number at Rainbow Canyon Retreat’s website and spoke to Josh Penn, who said the center had a 76-percent success rate.

Tino was told the program didn’t involve religion, and that his son would be under the care of “licensed medical professionals.”

David paid $33,000 up front so his son could start the program.

Michael was then taken to the “Treehouse” cabin at the facility for a cold turkey withdrawal. During that period, Michael had seizures, and had to be taken to a hospital emergency room, the complaint says.

Michael then realized that the program was actually Scientology, and it included “training routines” which had him shouting at ashtrays and making clay figures. He received no drug counseling at the facility.

“Michael suffered health complications because of the unsafe manner in which he was detoxed at Fresh Start. He is still suffering psychological effects from the bizarre and unsafe practices he was subjected to at Fresh Start. Michael left the program at Fresh Start without receiving any substance abuse treatment.”

Hamilton also includes testimony from other lawsuits that he has also featured in his other complaints, including excerpts from the deposition of Narconon’s own expert witness in a wrongful death lawsuit, who admitted that Scientology’s sauna-and-vitamins regiment (called the Purification Rundown in Scientology and the New Life Detoxification Program in Narconon) was not based on scientific principles.

Here’s the complaint:

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By our count, that’s fifteen federal lawsuits Hamilton has filed against Narconon in California, Nevada, and Colorado.

Angelo Amato (San Diego)
Christy Estrada and Branden Chavez (San Diego)
Cathy and Michael Tarr (Nevada)
Harry and Lauren Geanacopulos (Nevada)
David, Stacy, and Jack Welch (Nevada)
Bryan and Nikki Mott (Colorado)
Charles and Tyler Matthys, and Linda Phillips (Colorado)
Kenneth and Jered Mowery (Watsonville, CA)
Robin Jones, James Ramirez Sr. and Jr. (Watsonville, CA)
Charis Yates, Beret and Dean Pugh (Nevada)
Lori, Ryan, and Jilliene Winchell (Nevada)
Ben Levy (Colorado)
Monica and Sean O’Connell (Watsonville, CA)
Ronald and Jason McClure (Nevada)

Also, we mentioned the other day that Narconon appeared to be late answering one of the lawsuits, Estrada. Well, they have answered, and we don’t know if they’ll be penalized for their tardiness.

More at http://tonyortega.org/2014/07/03/german-media-scientology-is-essentially-dead-in-berlin/

Same deal happened on this case as we had when the Geanacopolus response came out - things did not match up with the original complaint. So it seems Hamilton is refining his attack as time goes by. The early cases get amended complaints (liked noted above) with alter ego liability applied and more alleged causes of action added.

In the Estrada case, the docket shows that the reply Ortega posted was in response to the third amended complaint, which is available here: http://www.archive.org/download/gov.uscourts.casd.436325/gov.uscourts.casd.436325.7.0.pdf

Ryan Hamilton files lawsuit 16 against Scientology’s drug rehab network

He’s like a machine. Since late January, Las Vegas attorney Ryan Hamilton has filed fifteen federal fraud lawsuits against Scientology’s drug rehab network. The latest was filed this weekend, and we have the details.

In February of this year, Jerry Courson went looking for a suitable rehab program for his wife, Christy, and found himself talking to a Narconon “Fresh Start” recruiter, in this case about Narconon’s facility in Fort Collins, Colorado, which is also known as “A Life Worth Saving.”

Like so many others, Jerry was told that Fresh Start had a 76-percent success rate, and that Christy would receive “extensive counseling.”

The Coursons were told about Fresh Start’s sauna program, which was supposed to be based on scientific principles and would eliminate Christy’s craving for drugs.

And like so many others, once Christy began the program (after the couple paid $33,000 up front), Christy was given Scientology training instead of drug counseling. Documents, meanwhile, show that Narconon’s own legal experts have admitted that the high success rates have no basis, and the sauna program is not based on scientific principles.

More at http://tonyortega.org/2014/07/08/ry...t-15-against-scientologys-drug-rehab-network/

Scientology: keeping it classy.

14 lawsuits of Ryan in court, 14 lawsuits in all.
Jot complaints down, file it around: 15 lawsuits in all!

Actually, we are up to lawsuit number 16.

Filed 7/6/14: Courson v. Narconon. Alleges sexual harassment. (re Scientology rehab).

Tony Ortega: Ryan Hamilton files lawsuit 16 against Scientology’s drug rehab network
http://tonyortega.org/2014/07/08/ry...t-scientologys-drug-rehab-network/#more-15725

Excerpt:

http://www.scribd.com/doc/232981652/Courson-v-Narconon-Complaint

Sweet Sixteen.

Ryan Hamilton has got to be funded by Big Popcorn.

If I could offer one piece of advice to Ryan Hamilton it would be this:


MOAR!




(IANAL)

15 lawsuits of Ryan in court, 15 lawsuits in all.
Jot complaints down, file it around: 16 lawsuits in all!

It's quite some time since the first case was launched. When can we expect to see how they will fare in court?

Your second line doesn't quite "go", and "99 bottles of beer" (or whatever the original tallied items were) counts down rather than up, but good call anyway.

Hmm... maybe we could do it as a giant countdown of all Narconon victims, decrementing by 1 for each who gets a lolsuit. That should help boost Scotch sales near LA and Tampa Bay.

Egads!! For Xenu's sake, don't be posting pics of the popcorn production facilities. Miscavige will turn it into some kind of Stuper Power fiasco and claim a patent violation on it.

Sheesh!

BigBeard

Scientology begins hitting back at Ryan Hamilton and his lawsuits

We have some legal updates, and they involve several different filings from attorneys for Scientology’s drug rehab network, Narconon, as it begins to hit back at the 16 federal lawsuits filed by Las Vegas attorney Ryan Hamilton.

Hamilton’s strategy has been consistent and simple: His lawsuits allege that Narconon’s business model is essentially deceptive in nature. Prospective patients and their families are told that they’ll receive drug counseling delivered in a safe setting with medical professionals, and that Narconon’s sauna-and-vitamins regimen is safe, effective (with 76 percent and higher success rates), and based on scientific purposes.

In fact, none of that is true. Patients are given Scientology training, not drug counseling, the facilities are staffed by recent “graduates,” not medical personnel, and even one of Narconon’s own experts admitted that there was no science behind the “detoxification” claims of the risky sauna program.

In each lawsuit, Hamilton has sued the local facility where former patients say they were defrauded (in Nevada, California, and Colorado), as well as the parent organization Narconon International, and its parent, Scientology’s Association for Better Living and Education (ABLE), which is staffed by Scientology “Sea Org” workers.

Now, Narconon International and ABLE have filed a motion to dismiss themselves from one of the lawsuits, making use of a classic Scientology strategy: We have nothing to do with anything.

Narconon International and ABLE “do not manage, supervise or monitor the day to day operations of Narconon Fresh Start or the Caliente, Nevada center,” says the motion.

The motion goes on to list all the ways Narconon International and ABLE have nothing to do with Nevada in general and the Rainbow Canyon Retreat in Caliente in particular.

The two organizations, the filing claims, simply license the name “Narconon” to rehab facilities, and they make it sound like there’s almost no other contact with them.

Funny, that’s not what we hear.

Continued at http://tonyortega.org/2014/07/10/scientology-begins-hitting-back-at-ryan-hamilton-and-his-lawsuits/

Whoa... wut dafuq is this little nugget buried in the motion to dismiss! Is Narconon Int and ABLE actually admitting that Narconon's program is religious in nature?!?!

On page 23, under the No. 10 heading:
http://www.scribd.com/doc/233340102/Geanacopulos-v-Narconon-NNInt-and-ABLE-Motion-to-Dismiss

Oh hai faith-based healing drug rehab network! So nice of you to own up to the fact that nothing about Narconon is secular!!!

yeah but... yeah but...
How can they possibly explain...
their own pictures of Scientology being in the center with all the arrows pointing to all the front groups with Narconon being one of them.
Narconon is or was listed on the COS website.
The Purification Rundown and tone scale are all copyrighted COS materials.
AND that famous Narconon drawing of "the bridge to Scientology"? Explain that one a-holes!
They need to show those 2 pics, and show the non difference between the tone scale and the Purif, and the TR's used in COS and show it is the EXACT same thing used in Narconon to the court and also dig and try to prove where all the money goes. = "uplines".
Have the whistle blowers deposed and let's get this party started.

holy crap! Nice find Wolfie!
I would really like to know what parents and others were told about Narconon's "faith based" healing.
LOL!! ummmmmm how about NONE?

But but Gary Smith said that he had a stack of medical dox and testimonials probably 12 feet high in 1991!

• Supporters Of Narconon Want Setback Investigated December 19, 1991, AP, Tulsa World

Just a wild guess but I would say, approximately zero.

The faith healing fallback defense also pops up into the Yates motion to dismiss as well! But with more/better context as to why they are throwing it out there.

Starting on page 16 under the No. 1 heading for the Civil RICO claim for relief:
http://www.scribd.com/doc/233343240...ailure-to-state-a-claim?in_collection=4648474

So here we see that although they are not coming straight out and saying "we don't have to be licensed nor based on science for faith-based healing, they do seem to be laying the ground work for an easy-out on *some* of the allegations.

IOW, possibly take the hit for fraudulent business practice of not disclosing it is Scientology-based in order to avoid the negligence, malpractice and RICO stuff.

Hamilton is pretty cool guy. He has their balls in death grip, 16 times over, and they are beginning to squirm.

Perhaps they're hoping to capitalize on the Hobby Lobby decision.

I created a thread on ESMB based on Wolfbane's discoveries with HTs to his posts on WWP:

Narconon admits it is "faith-based healing" based on the religion of Scientology
http://www.forum.exscn.net/showthre...ing-quot-based-on-the-religion-of-Scientology

In the Motion by Defendants A.B.L.E. and Narconon International to dismiss the Complaint in the action entitled Geanacopulos v. Narconon, United States District Court for the District of Nevada, Case No. 2:14-cv-00629-JCM-NJK, on page 23 under heading 10 Defendants A.B.L.E. and Narconon International assert:

http://www.scribd.com/doc/233340102/Geanacopulos-v-Narconon-NNInt-and-ABLE-Motion-to-Dismiss

HT - WWP: https://whyweprotest.net/community/...sh-start-in-nevada.116633/page-3#post-2470899

Similarly, in the Motion to Dismiss by Defendant Narconon Fresh Start, d/b/a Rainbow Canyon Retreat, in the action entitled Yates v. Narconon, United States District Court for the District of Nevada, Case No. 2:14-cv-00837-GMN-NJK, said defendant argues at page 16 under heading 1 for the RICO claim of relief:

http://www.scribd.com/doc/233343240...ailure-to-state-a-claim?in_collection=4648474

HT - WWP: https://whyweprotest.net/community/...sh-start-in-nevada.116633/page-3#post-2470954

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A quick note on the merits of the various personal injury and fraud cases against Narconon. To the extent Narconon's counsel has admitted, and indeed even asserted, that Narconon is "faith-based healing" based on the religion of Scientology, said counsel has also admitted that any representations by Narconon that it was secular and/or was not based on the religion of Scientology were false and fraudulent.

Unfortunately Narconon will win with this strategy and we need to brace for FAIL as with the money the cult and Narconon have there is no way they will not end up wining this