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Gentle Wind Project sues couple over Internet postings
Published on January 9, 2005    Page: A1

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Byline:    GREGORY D. KESICH Staff Writer The Gentle Wind Project collected millions of dollars in donations by distributing plastic healing instruments that believers say alleviate suffering through the regeneration of human energy fields damaged by trauma. But when two of the group's former associates went on the Internet and compared the Kittery-based nonprofit to a "mind-control cult," Gentle Wind called a lawyer. The organization and six of its officers have filed a complex defamation lawsuit in U.S. District Court

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Judge: Web site can't be sued for `cult' comment
Published on January 11, 2005    Page: B1

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Byline:    GREGORY D. KESICH Staff Writer The operator of a Web site based in New Jersey should be dismissed from a lawsuit that he faced for publishing articles comparing the Kittery-based Gentle Wind Project to a "mind-control cult," a U.S. Magistrate judge ruled Monday. Judge David Cohen wrote that a court in Maine has no jurisdiction over Rick A. Ross and his Institute for the Study of Destructive Cults, Controversial Groups and Movements. Cohen said that because Ross has no connection to Maine, he cannot be sued here for...