Minton was an advocate of free speech on the Internet and a member of the Electronic Frontier Foundation, and was alarmed at the Church's strong-arm tactics against its opponents, including raiding their homes and confiscating computer equipment over alleged copyright infringement for publishing documents on the Internet.

[4] The LMT staff included Stacy Brooks (President), Jesse Prince (Vice-President), Teresa Summers (Vice-President), Mark Bunker (Videographer), Jeff Jacobsen (Librarian), Robert Peterson (Office Manager), and Ingrid Wagner (Reception).

[9] To enforce this ruling, Clearwater city painted two white lines across Watterson Avenue, stating that while Scientologists were loading or unloading buses in the area, the trust staff and members could not enter it.

[11] Bob Minton claimed that the trust had a for-profit status to allow them to hide financial and other records from the Church of Scientology.

[14] In 1995, Slaughter, an influential Scientologist, was caught up in controversy surrounding the death of an employee and friend, Lisa McPherson, in Clearwater, Florida.

[15] The company is operated and staffed largely by Scientologists who want to be close to the Church of Scientology's spiritual headquarters in downtown Clearwater.

[16] In 1995 Lisa McPherson died of a pulmonary embolism, weeks after leaving the hospital against medical advice with a group of Scientologists, while under the care of the Flag Service Organization (FSO), a branch of the Church of Scientology.

[29] In December 1997, Bennetta Slaughter and AMC Publishing were added as additional defendants in the wrongful death lawsuit.

[30] Charges in the criminal case were dropped on June 13, 2000, when the state's medical examiner changed the cause of death from "undetermined" to an "accident".