Going Clear, Part 14 transcript:
Mark Rathbun: So then Wright goes into this guy Michael Pattinson. He’s a guy who claimed to be gay and discriminated against by Scientology. And he brought a lawsuit about it against the church and John Travolta…and I think me, and I think David Miscavige. I mean it was one of those nutcase lawsuits where he listed Bill Clinton who was the sitting president of the United States of America at the time of this lawsuit. Larry Wright doesn’t tell you that in his book. More like, “this is a very grave, important lawsuit on the issue of homosexuality that Michael Pattinson brought.” Wright writes “that case was voluntarily withdrawn after an avalanche of countersuits. Both Pattinson and his attorneys say they were driven into bankruptcy.” I was there when that lawsuit got filed and you know what it was good for? Comedic relief. And that is how the court viewed it. It was a complete shopping cart lady lawsuit. Yet, Wright makes it sound like legitimate thing here and that these people were somehow systematically destroyed for having the temerity to raise these “grave issues.” And the lawyer who filed the suit, one Graham Berry, was adjudicated by the Superior Court in Los Angeles to be a ’vexatious litigant.’ That meant Berry was required to have his pleadings read and vetted by the court before he could even lodge a new lawsuit. This case was so frivolous that the attorney who filed it lost his right to bring another lawsuit without prior judicial authorization. Wright did not share these inconvenient facts.
Moving On Up a Little Higher 