Re. "Don Surber sides with the Church of Scientology over real world"
http://trueslant.com/barrettbrown/2010/02/23/don-surber-sides-with-church-of-scientology-over-st-petersburg-times/

In case it's of interest to you, just a small comment regarding one
poster's comment where he states that the Church of Scientology "NEVER
filed suit against the St. Petersburg Times."

This might be so, but still, apparently the Church of Scientology
threatened lawsuit in early 1976 against the St. Petersburg Times, and
this led the St. Petersburg Times to file a preemptive lawsuit against
Church of Scientology, as per this old news article:

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The [Henning Heldt] wrote:
"In a Feb. 9, 1976, memo attorney John Bray of the LF (law firm) Arent,
Plotkin et al wrote to Albert Arent (senior partner) stating that Nelson
Poynter and Gene Patterson called him on Friday (Feb. 6) to discuss the
possibility of suing C of S. Told Bray the SPT had run stories on C of S
in CW (Clearwater) and had received a five day letter threatening suit.
Poynter advised that the C of S had an extreme history of bringing libel
suits against newspapers and mentioned the St. Louis Post Dispatch.
Poynter wanted to file a preemptive suit to counter this strategy. ...
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Source: St. Petersburg Times (Nov 10, 1979): "Scientologists got secret
files of Times, lawyers"

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Raymond Hill
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