PROFILE OF EARLE C. COOLEY
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PROFILE OF EARLE C. COOLEY
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Earle C. Cooley was born on February 15, 1932 in Hartford,
Connecticut. He is a partner in the law firm of Cooley
Manion Jones, L.L.P., 21 Custom House Street, Boston,
Massachusetts 02110. His work phone is 617-737-3100, and
his work fax is 617-737-3113, and his email is
eco...@cmmj.com.
The Gravelly-voiced Mr. Cooley’s primary areas of legal
practice are in the areas of civil and criminal litigation,
complex personal injury litigation and criminal defense
litigation. He attended the University of Connecticut where
he received his B.S. degree and to Boston University where
he received his LL.B in 1957. While in law school, he was
Editor in Chief of the Law Review between 1956 and 1957.
He taught law at Boston University School of Law between
1963 and 1968, and was a Trustee of Boston University from
1974 to 1994, becoming Chairman of the Board of Trustees at
Boston University in 1994. He is a member of the
Massachusetts and American Bar Associations, and is a fellow
in the American College of Trial Lawyers.
He was admitted to the Massachusetts bar in 1957, to the U.S.
District Court of Massachusetts in 1959, to the First Circuit
Court of Appeals in 1962, to the U.S. Supreme Court in 1979,
to the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals in 1986, to the Sixth
Circuit Court of Appeals in 1987, to the US. Tax Court in
1990, and to the Fourth and Tenth Circuits in 1995.
Cooley is President of Legal Leasing Corp., 21 Custom House
Street, Boston, Mass. 02110. Harry L. Manion, 36 Ridge Hill
Farm Road, Wellesley, Mass 02181 is the Treasurer and
Registered Agent. The company was incorporated on November
1, 1988, and merged as a new corporation on June 30, 1991.
An annual report was filed with the Massachusetts Secretary
of State on January 28, 1992, and on March 8, 1991, March 30,
1990, and March 30, 1989.
Cooley’s wife Jean D. Cooley had been the President and
Treasurer of the JC&DH Corporation, which was incorporated on
March 26, 1992, and dissolved on August 31, 1998. The
company address was P.O. Box 986, 770 Main Street, Osterville,
Massachusetts 02655. The coproration number was 043148689.
Annual reports had been filed on January 31, 1995, and June
8, 1993 with the Massachusetts Secretary of State.
The Cooley’s lived until recently in a two-unit condominium at
65 East India Row Number 35A and 35B, Boston, Mass, 02110-3305
They purchased the property and recorded the deed on April 14,
1988, and paid $190,000 for the 35A condo and $475,000 for the
35B condo. In 1997, the assessed value of the 35A condo was
$132,500, and the assessed value of the 35B condo was $296,000.
In 1998, the assessed value of the 35A condo rose to $148,400,
and the assessed value of the 35B condo rose to $354,300. They
paid a property tax amounts of $1819 and $4065 respectively for
the 1997 tax year, and property taxes of $1999 and $4772 in the
1998 tax year. The 760 square foot 35A condo was built in
1972, and has one bedroom and one bath, with three rooms total.
Heating is of the hot water type. The 35B condo was also built
in 1972, has 2 bedrooms, 2 baths, 1 partial bath and five total
rooms. 35B also has a comfortable basement, and a total
building area of 1683 square feet.
The Cooley’s purchased the 35B condo property from James L.
Sheridan, Jr. on April 14, 1988 for a total sale price of
$475,000. On May 30, 1997, the Cooley’s sold both condos
for $580,000 to Andrade S. Man and Irene N. Man.
The Cooley’s owned a retail store property at 825 Main Street,
Barnstable, Massachusetts. In 1997, the assessed land value
was $116,400, and an assessed improvement value of $95,900 for
a total assessed value of $212,300. They paid property taxes
of $2567 for tax year 1997. In 1996, The assessed land value
for this property was $118,100, with an improvement value of
$119,400, for a total value of $237,500. The lot size is 2640
square feet, later corrected to 2614 square feet, and the
building area is 2160 square feet. They took out a mortgage
for $245,000 from Eastern Bank, and this mortgage was recorded
on May 7, 1993. They purchased this property for $345,000 on
May 7, 1993 from The Beverly Corporation.
They also owned a large piece of property at 53 Wianno Circle,
Barnstable, Massachusetts, in Barnstable County. On December
19, 1989, the Cooley’s took out a mortgage from Cape Code Five
Century Bank for $268,000. In 1994, the assessed land value
was $122,300, with an improvement value assessment of $161,700,
for a total assessed value of $284,000. In 1997, the assessed
land value was $126,800 and an assessed improvement value of
$203,400 for a total assessed value of $330,200. They paid
1997 property taxes of $3992. The lot size is 22,440 square
feet, corrected to 22,216 square feet. The building area is
3056 square feet. They had purchased the property from T.
Wianno on December 19, 1989, for a purchase price of $335,000.
They also owned a single family home on a piece of property at
122 Wianno Circle, Barnstable, Massachusetts. In 1997, the
assessed land value was $79,100 and the assessed improvement
value was $60,100 for a total assessed value of $139,200.
They paid a tax amount of $1683 in tax year 1997. In 1994,
the assessed land value was $59,300, and the improvement value
was $61,500, for a total value of $120,800. The lot size was
14080 square feet, later corrected to 13939 square feet, and
the building area is 924 square feet. The Cooley’s purchased
this property on February 27, 1992 from John E. and Elizabeth
J. Shaughnessy, for a price of $135,000.
Mr. Cooley left his partnership at Hale and Door in 1984 to
open the firm of Cooley, Manion, and started to do work for the
COS at that time. He is a Scientologist, and with his fringe
of reddish hear, he bears an uncanny resemblence to L. Ron
Hubbard. During the Titchbourne trial, Cooley battered and
berated Gerry Armstrong, a plantiffs witness, to the point of
tears. According to Sanford Katz, a criminal defense lawyer
who was representing the COS on other matters at that time,
Cooley was “simply pandering to the client”in bludgeoning
opposing witnesses. According to Cooley, his roughshod
cross-examination of Armstrong was “not done to placate or make
the client happy”. Rather, “when the plaintiff put on her case,
vicious, terrible things were said about the church that had no
relation to the case. It was my judgment that there had to be a
vigorous cross-examination of Armstrong that got to his
credibility.” But the jury was turned off by this tactic.
Results: the jury hit the church with a $39 million dollar
verdict.
Later, a mistrial ruling was secured from the trial judge,
based on an impermissibly imflammatory summation by
plaintiff’s counsel and improper jury instructions. The
church then promoted Cooley to “national trial counsel” in
July 1985.
Regarding the 1986 Wallersheim trial in Los Angeles, Judge
Swearinger thought that Cooley’s histrionics were comical
rather than effective; he said that he often caught the jury
“rolling their eyes” at Cooley’s loud talk and hostility to
opposing counsel and witnesses. This time the jury also
returned a large $30 million dollar verdict.
In 1991, Cooley was brought in to argue the church’s motion
to remove federal judge James Ideman, who was sitting on
three cases involving COS, because supposedly he had a
framed cover of Behar’s Time Magazine expose hanging in his
chambers, which Cooley claimed was evidence of bias.
In 1991 and 1992, Cooley led the effort against Time
Magazine when they published Behar’s story about the church.
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