Currently behind bars on a 30-year sentence for rape, Danny Masterson is heading back to court. In a short hearing today in downtown LA, Judge Upinder Kalra lifted the long stay on the 2019-filed harassment case against the That 70s Show actor and the Church of Scientology.
At the same time in the 10-minute session, the LA Superior Court judge set a trial start date for the case. Right now, Masterson and the David Miscavige-led Church are set to go to trial on September 22, 2025.
In case you are wondering, court backlogs and an expected flood of discovery filings are but two reasons the trial won’t start for nearly two years.
All three Jane Does in the civil case, in which Scientology unsuccessfully tried last year to get the Supreme Court to intervene in, are former members of the Church.
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