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Left: Actress Leah Remini at the 2017 Primetime Creative Arts Emmy Awards held on September 9, 2017 in Los Angeles, California (File Photo by: zz/RE/Westcom/STAR MAX/IPx 2017 9/9/17. Right: The Church of Scientology Celebrity Centre is pictured, Friday, April 21, 2023, in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Chris Pizzello).

A Los Angeles judge was apparently convinced to throw out most of Leah Remini’s defamation claims against the Church of Scientology, but is still planning to allow other portions of the actor’s case to go forward.

The 53-year-old star of “The King of Queens” has been locked in a highly public battle with the Church of Scientology over Remini’s public criticism of the organization. Remini has said she was forced into joining the church as a child, but left in 2013 before becoming an outspoken critic. In 2015 she published a memoir titled, “Troublemaker: Surviving Hollywood and Scientology,” and participated in the hit docuseries, “Scientology and the Aftermath.”

Remini sued the church and its leader David Miscavige in 2023, claiming that in response to her public criticism, they waged “a campaign to ruin and destroy her livelihood.” That effort she said, included harassment, stalking, intentional infliction of emotional distress, tortious interference with contract, intentional interference with prospective economic advantage, defamation, and false light.

The Church of Scientology moved to dismiss the lawsuit under California’s anti-SLAPP statute. Anti-SLAPP laws, so named for “strategic lawsuits against public participation,” allow a defamation defendant grounds to dismiss a complaint in a lawsuit’s early stages if it is proven that the suit was filed in an effort to chill free speech.

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