Paul Robert Morantz was an American attorney and investigative journalist.
17 Facts About Paul Morantz
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Paul Morantz then attended Santa Monica City College and the University of Southern California as a journalism major.
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Paul Morantz played for USC Law School in the basketball intramural league.
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Paul Morantz left the public defender's office in 1973 and worked part-time as both a lawyer and writer.
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Paul Morantz filed a class action lawsuit on behalf of the former patients, testified on nursing home abuses during the public hearings and aided in the creation of a district attorney task force on nursing home crimes.
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In 1977, Paul Morantz investigated the drug rehabilitation institution Synanon, which had a reputation as a seemingly successful program for rehabilitating drug addicts where existing traditional hospitals had failed.
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Three weeks earlier, Paul Morantz had won a $300,000 judgment against Synanon on behalf of a married couple.
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On October 10,1978, Paul Morantz was bitten by a rattlesnake placed in his mailbox, at his home in Pacific Palisades.
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Paul Morantz called the free training offer an attempt to use the tools of coercive persuasion on an entire community.
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Paul Morantz then went to Deputy Chief Barry Wade of the Los Angeles Police Department and the LAPD police union in effort to stop est from providing free est trainings for LAPD officers.
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Paul Morantz represented approximately forty ex-members of the Center for Feeling Therapy who, after nine years, rebelled against the center, leading to its closure in 1980.
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Paul Morantz gave pro-bono assistance to the plaintiffs in the Molko case in which the California Supreme Court would decide if religious organizations could be sued for deceitful brainwashing.
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Paul Morantz litigated against the Church of Scientology, Peoples Temple, Hare Krishnas, Rajneesh movement, and other religious groups.
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Paul Morantz worked alongside of anti-cult attorney Ford Greene and Los Angeles County class action lawsuit attorney Thomas Girardi.
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Paul Morantz collaborated with thought reform theorists and anti-cultist authors such as Margaret Singer and Louis Jolyon West among others.
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Paul Morantz helped write the California law setting forth requirements under which a religious organization could be sued for punitive damages.
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Paul Morantz died on October 23,2022, at his home in Los Angeles.