- Helena Kobrin
Helena Kempner Kobrin (born April 27, 1948) is an American
Scientologist andlawyer at the firmMoxon & Kobrin , working for theReligious Technology Center , which controls the trademarks ofScientology and thecopyright of the works ofL. Ron Hubbard .She received her
B.A. atHofstra University and herJ.D. atSeton Hall University . She was admitted to the bar in 1978, and at the California bar in 1991.In 1994, Kobrin and the lawfirm Bowles & Moxon were ordered to pay sanctions of $17,775 for filing a frivolous complaint in federal court against Frank Gerbode, a former Scientologist. [Religious Technology Center, Inc. v. Frank Gerbode, Case number: CV 93-2226 AWT ]
She caused controversy in the mid-1990s when she tried to get the
newsgroup alt.religion.scientology shut down, cite book | last = Grossman | first = Wendy | title = Net.Wars | origyear = 1997 | origmonth = October | url = http://www.nyupress.org/netwars/ | accessdate = 2006-06-11 | publisher = New York University Press | location = New York | id = ISBN 0-8147-3103-1 | pages = 77-78 | chapter = Copyright Terrorists | chapterurl = http://www.nyupress.org/netwars/textonly/pages/chapter06/ch06_.html] and later e-mailed legal warnings to participants who had quoted as few as six lines of Scientology texts. [cite news | first = Alan | last = Prendergast | title = Stalking the Net | url = http://www.westword.com/1995-10-04/news/stalking-the-net/full | work =Westword | publisher = Village Voice Media | date =1995-10-04 | accessdate = 2007-03-28]She is married to Michael D. Kobrin.
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Scientology versus The Internet
*Scientology and the legal system
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