Slaughter v. Estate of McPherson ex rel. Liebreich

On March 12, 1999, Bennetta Slaughter, David Slaughter, Brenda Hubert, Kurt Paine, Shirley Cage, Katie Chamberlain, Gloria Cruz, Jeff Litton, and Brian Rakes-traw (hereinafter collectively “the interve-nors”) filed a motion to intervene in the wrongful death action filed against the Church of Scientology by Dell Liebreich as personal representative of the Estate of Lisa McPherson. The intervenors sought to intervene to obtain a declaration of their constitutional privacy rights in Ms. McPherson’s “auditing” files, also known as “pre-clear” or “PC” folders. The trial court denied the motion to…