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28		  Gerry Armstrong
#2-46298 Yale Road
Chilliwack, B.C. V2P 2P6
Canada
gerry@gerryarmstrong.org
604-703-1373
In Propria Persona




SUPERIOR COURT OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA

COUNTY OF MARIN

CHURCH OF SCIENTOLOGY INTERNATIONAL,

Plaintiff,

vs.

GERALD ARMSTRONG,

Defendant.
















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 Case  No. CV 021632
Consolidated with Cases Nos. 152229 and 157680

DECLARATION OF GERRY ARMSTRONG IN SUPPORT OF OPPOSITION TO PLAINTIFF SCIENTOLOGY’S MOTION TO REINSTATE JAIL SENTENCES AGAINST HIM AND TO ISSUE WARRANTS FOR HIS ARREST; AND IN SUPPORT OF ARMSTRONG’S MOTION TO SET AN EVIDENTIARY HEARING PURSUANT TO C.C.C. § 1670.5 ON THE UNCONSCIONABILITY OF PLAINTIFF SCIENTOLOGY’S CONTRACT; TO STAY SCIENTOLOGY’S MOTION TO REINSTATE JAIL SENTENCES AGAINST ARMSTRONG AND ISSUE WARRANTS FOR HIS ARREST; AND TO STAY ALL OTHER ACTIONS AGAINST DEFENDANT UNTIL AFTER THIS COURT’S DETERMINATION OF UNCONSCIONABILITY FOLLOWING SUCH HEARING 

Date:   September 7, 2007
Time:  9:00 a.m.
Department L
   

DECLARATION OF GERRY ARMSTRONG

I, Gerry Armstrong, declare:
 

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1.  I am the defendant in this case.  I have personal knowledge of the facts stated herein,

and could competently testify concerning these facts if required to do so.

2.  Scientology filed this case against Robert Minton the Lisa McPherson Trust (“LMT”)

and me on April 2, 2002, seeking $10,050,000 in “liquidated damages” against me for 204 (sic) alleged

violations of a “contract” I was coerced and tricked into signing in December 1986, supposedly to

“settle” my cross-complaint in Scientology v. Armstrong, Los Angeles Superior Court case no. C

420153. A true and correct copy of the contract is appended hereto as Exhibit A.

3.  On June 6, 2003, Scientology dismissed its claims against Mr. Minton and the LMT.

4.  On April 9, 2004, this Court conducted a trial on Scientology’s liquidated damages

claim. I was represented at trial by attorney Ford Greene, and I have waived the attorney-client privilege

with Mr. Greene as to the communications between us described herein and in my opposition that are

necessary to support this opposition. At the end of the trial, this Court also remitted or otherwise

discharged jail sentences and fines against me then instated for my alleged violations of an injunction

signed by former Superior Court Judge Gary W. Thomas and filed October 17, 1995 in Scientology v.

Armstrong, Marin Superior Court case no. 157680, consolidated with this case. A true and correct copy

of pages from the trial transcript are appended hereto as Exhibit B.

5.  Over the three months following the trial, Mr. Greene and Scientology’s attorney

Andrew Wilson engaged in an exchange of communications in a supposed attempt to agree on the

language of a judgment to be submitted to this Court for signing and filing.  At one point, this Court

apparently suggested or ordered that the attorneys physically meet to try to agree on the language of the

judgment.  On July 12, 2004, Mr. Greene advised me that he had that day learned from Mr. Wilson that

on May 20, 2004 this Court had itself issued an order entitled “Order Granting Plaintiff’s Motion for

Judgment .” Mr. Greene advised me that he had not received this order from the Court or from
 

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Scientology’s attorney and did not know of its existence until Mr. Wilson told him about it. Mr. Greene

also advised me that on July 12 he went to the office of the Clerk of the Marin Superior Court and

obtained a copy of this order. That date is shown by Mr. Greene’s “Received” stamp on the order. A true

and correct copy of the judgment is appended hereto as Exhibit C.

6.  On July 12, 2004, Mr. Greene also advised Armstrong that he had also learned that

day from Mr. Wilson that on May 20, 2004 this Court had also issued an order entitled “Order Re

Sentences for Contempt,” and on July 12 Mr. Greene obtained a copy of that order as well from the

Clerk of the Court. A true and correct copy of this order is appended hereto as Exhibit D.

7.  On July 15, 2004, Scientology filed its notice of appeal from this Court’s Order

Granting Plaintiff’s Motion for Judgment, identifying the order as “the judgment in favor of Respondent

GERALD ARMSTRONG.” A true and correct copy of this notice of appeal is appended hereto as

Exhibit E.

8.  Concurrent with filing its notice of appeal, Scientology filed a petition for a writ of

certiorari or writ of mandate in the Court of Appeal, First Appellate District case No. A107095, and filed

a motion to consolidate the writ petition and the appeal.

9.  On July 20, 2004, the Court of Appeal issued an Order to Show Cause, granting

Scientology’s motion to consolidate the petition for writ of certiorari or mandate (A107095) with

Scientology’s appeal (A107100) and ordering the Marin Superior Court as Respondent to show cause

why the petition should not be granted.

10.  On August 23, 2004, Scientology filed its appellant’s opening brief.

11.  On December 6, 2004, I filed my respondent’s brief in which I argued that

Scientology’s legal remedy was not to try to get the Court of Appeal to overturn the trial court’s

unconscionability ruling, but to avail itself of its opportunity in the trial court as provided by C.C.C.
 
 

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28		 §1670.5 and present evidence as to the contract’s commercial setting, purpose and effect to attempt to

convince the trial court that the clause that was ruled unconscionable was actually conscionable. I also

argued that I was also to be afforded such an opportunity as I was claiming to the Court that clauses in

Scientology’s contract were unconscionable, and I renew that claim and that request for such

opportunity now. A true and correct copy of my respondent’s brief is appended hereto as Exhibit F.

12.  On December 7, 2004, I filed my brief in opposition to Scientology’s petition for a

writ of certiorari or mandate.

13.  On February 16, 2005, Scientology filed its reply brief in support of its petition for

writ of certiorari or mandate.

14.  On September 2, 2005, Scientology submitted to the Court of Appeal a request for

dismissal of its appeal.

15.  On September 8, 2005, the Court of Appeal issued an order dismissing the appeal but

maintaining the writ petition and oral argument therein.

16. On September 16, 2005, I wrote to Scientology attorney Kendrick Moxon, attorney of

record herein and in Scientology’s appeal and writ petition, and requested his client’s agreement to the

setting of a C.C.C. §1670.5 evidentiary hearing in this Court on the commercial setting, purpose and

effect of Scientology’s contract. A true and correct copy of my letter is appended hereto as Exhibit G.

17.  On October 19, 2005, the Court of Appeal issued an opinion granting Scientology’s

writ petition and reinstating the jail sentences and fines against me.  (Scientology’s motion, Ex. A)

18.  Scientology’s attorneys have not responded to my letter requesting their client agree

to the setting of a C.C.C. §1670.5 hearing.

19.  On January 12, 2006, remittitur issued in both Scientology’s writ petition

(Scientology’s motion, Ex. B) and in Scientology’s voluntarily dismissed appeal. A true and correct
 

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28		 copy of the remittitur in Scientology’s appeal from this Court’s judgment is appended hereto as Exhibit

H .

20.  On August 7, 2007, Scientology filed its motion to have this Court reinstate

sentences and issue a warrant for my arrest.

21.  Appended hereto as Exhibit I is a true and correct copy of my opposition, filed

September 18, 1995, to Scientology’s motion for summary adjudication on its 20th cause of action then

before Judge Thomas in case no. 157680. The 20th cause of action in Scientology’s complaint in

Scientology v. Armstrong, Marin Superior Court case no. 152229, consolidated with 157680, was for a

preliminary and permanent injunction prohibiting violations of the subject contract. Judge Thomas’s

grant of summary adjudication resulted in the order of permanent injunction filed October 17, 1995,

alleged violations of which resulted in the sentences that this Court remitted or discharged at the April 9,

2004 trial as unconscionable.

22.  Appended hereto as Exhibit J is a true and correct copy of my opposition, filed

September 18, 1995, to Scientology’s motion for summary adjudication on its 13th, 16th, 17th and 19th

causes of action then before Judge Thomas in case no. 157680. These causes of action in Scientology’s

complaint in Scientology v. Armstrong, Marin Superior Court case no. 152229, consolidated with

157680, sought liquidated damages of $50,000 per utterance for utterances I made that discussed my

religious experiences and beliefs in or in relation to the Scientology religion. Judge Thomas’s grant of

summary adjudication resulted in the judgment filed May 2, 1996, a true and correct copy of which is

appended hereto as Exhibit K.

23.  Scientology first attempted to enforce its contract against me by motion filed in

October 1991 in its original case, Los Angeles Superior Court case no. C 420153. At a hearing on

December 23, 1991 , Judge Bruce R. Geernaert, who had inherited the case from Judge Paul G.
 

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28		 Breckenridge, Jr., who had retired, denied Scientology’s motion. Appended hereto as Exhibit L is a true

and correct copy of pages of the hearing transcript. 

24.  I am a Canadian citizen living in Canada, not an attorney, in propria persona, and in

forma pauperis. I have never had the reasonable opportunity mandated by C.C.C. §1670.5. I believe that

if this Court sets an evidentiary hearing in compliance with C.C.C. §1670.5 I will be able to retain an

attorney to represent me at such a hearing. I request that I be able to attend the hearing, if any, on this

motion to set a C.C.C. §1670.5 evidentiary hearing, by CourtCall. I will undertake to physically attend

the evidentiary hearing once set.

I declare under penalty of perjury pursuant to the laws of the State of California, the

United States and Canada that the foregoing is true and correct.

Executed this 30 day of August 2007 at Chilliwack, B.C., Canada.



  Gerry Armstrong























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Gerry Armstrong
 

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 PROOF OF SERVICE

I am over the age of eighteen years and am not a party to the within action. My business

address is #2-46298 Yale Road, Chilliwack, B.C. V2P 2P6 Canada

I served the following document:


DECLARATION OF GERRY ARMSTRONG IN SUPPORT OF OPPOSITION TO PLAINTIFF
SCIENTOLOGY’S MOTION TO REINSTATE JAIL SENTENCES AGAINST HIM AND TO
ISSUE WARRANTS FOR HIS ARREST; AND IN SUPPORT OF ARMSTRONG’S MOTION
TO SET AN EVIDENTIARY HEARING PURSUANT TO C.C.C. § 1670.5 ON THE
UNCONSCIONABILITY OF PLAINTIFF SCIENTOLOGY’S CONTRACT; TO STAY
SCIENTOLOGY’S MOTION TO REINSTATE JAIL SENTENCES AGAINST ARMSTRONG
AND ISSUE WARRANTS FOR HIS ARREST; AND TO STAY ALL OTHER ACTIONS
AGAINST DEFENDANT UNTIL AFTER THIS COURT’S DETERMINATION OF
UNCONSCIONABILITY FOLLOWING SUCH HEARING

on the following person on the date set forth below, by UPS Overnight Courier to the addressee below:

Kendrick L. Moxon, Esquire
Moxon & Kobrin
3055 Wilshire Blvd., Suite 900
Los Angeles, CA 90010

and by e-mail to: kmoxon@earthlink.net

I declare under penalty of perjury under the laws of California, the United States and Canada

that the above is true and correct.

Executed on August 30, 2007 at Chilliwack, B.C., Canada.
Caroline Letkeman_________________
Caroline Letkeman







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