Moxon & Kobrin

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Moxon & Kobrin is a law firm located in Los Angeles, California, consisting of Kendrick Moxon, Helena Kobrin, and Ava Paquette.

The firm is best known for being attorneys for the Church of Scientology, the partners being Church staff members, and as such have come under considerable criticism. The firm was previously Bowles & Moxon, until partner Tim Bowles left to become a solo practitioner in Pasadena. The firm was then known as Moxon & Bartilson, until partner Laurie Bartilson began concentrating on the management of the acting career of her daughter Lynsey Bartilson in 1998.

Before becoming Scientology's lead in-house attorney, Kendrick Moxon worked in the Church's Guardian's Office (now known as the Office of Special Affairs) under Mary Sue Hubbard. During Operation Snow White, in which eleven Scientologists pleaded guilty or were convicted in federal court, Moxon was listed as an unindicted co-conspirator for providing false handwriting samples to the FBI in response to a Grand Jury subpoena.

Notable cases

• In 2002 Moxon & Kobrin served notice to search engine Google, demanding that Operation Clambake be removed from their search listings. They alleged that the site "contains literally hundreds of our clients' copyrighted works and federally registered trademarks. Among the specific Church documents they objected to xenu.net's coverage of were those dealing with Dead Agenting, Fair Game, Security Check Children, Xenu, Helatrobus, and various other Scientology Space Opera doctrines of ancient alien civilizations. Google temporarily complied but eventually restored most of xenu.net's pages back to their results. However, many pages objected to by Scientology are still censored from Google today. The site has restructured much of the content to give as many quotations from the documents as possible while still remaining within Fair Use of the copyrighted material.

See also

• Scientology versus the Internet
• Scientology and the legal system

References

External links

• Correspondence between Ava Paquette and slatkinfraud.com
• Fair Game: Scientology harassing/hijacking Berry? Hamburg good news. (Graham Berry)

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