I am not familiar with American law other than bits I've read on the net type thing. However as a NZ citizen I can tell you that CofS contracts are not worth the paper they are written on here.
Contract law requires that there is equity for both parties, in plain language. You cannot contract a citizen out of their local domestic laws without some very plain language and which can then be inspected by an independent party prior to signing.
I went into a small legal battle with scientology on these points (when they tried to gag me from participating in a TV documentary). I knew the CofS could not opt me out of the laws of my land and these contracts do that very thing.
There are exceptions to opting a citizen out of local laws. This can sometimes be seen in employment contracts regarding company trade secrets and related matters. However these contracts are written very very differently to the CofS contracts. To be valid such contracts must specify, in transparent terms, exactly what is what. I.e. person may not work for a competitor for 12 months after leaving a company. In return for this X amount will be remunerated.
I was willing to test this shit in court, both the contract issues and also the violations of human rights laws. While many say this is a "constitutional issue" (American) it is far more than that. It is an international human rights issue. Governments ratify into all these fancy international human rights codes and they are (supposed to be) upheld in domestic law(s). Scientology annihilates this by placing itself above domestic laws, hiding behind its religious tax status.
While this all seems quite complicated in some ways it isn't. If someone wants to lower or remove your basic human rights, granted under international laws and ratified by a sovereign nation - no deal. I had less legal rights as a scientologist than the non-scientologist folk living down the road. I could not change my mind about my religion, without scientology harassing me. I could not speak freely to any media I chose to without punishment from scientology. I could not access tribunals all other NZers could. There are other violations. Just because scientology is deemed a religion under tax laws (and that is the only legal way it is deemed a religion) does not grant it the right to opt people out of the local laws.
p.s. the small legal battle scientology bullied me with, failed. You simply cannot opt a citizen out of local laws. Their contracts are a joke. I have the same rights as every other NZ citizen. I challenged scientology (out of court) to take back my legal rights and won. The CofS went silent. And I know exactly why.
In the United States, cases have been thrown out because of these contracts, with the judge feeling it would infringe on Scientology's "religious rights" to make any ruling at all.
Thus Scientology Sharia.
Hubbard's, and now Miscavige's, fraudulent "religion angle" is at work.
And its been at work a long time, even before Scientology's shady IRS deal of 1993.
This is a Scientology operative & PR person dressed in a clerical collar on a TV program in 1980:
Some people are impressed by a seemingly nice young man dressed like a minister.
This is why Scientology Inc. trains its deceived and mind-manipulated followers to parrot the words "the Scientology religion," "my religion," etc., (especially around "wogs"), and has its non-Scientologist apologists - including its "religious experts," such as J. Gordon Melton
Scientology & Jim Jones | Ex Scientologist Message Board - doing much the same by repeating "minority religion," "NRM" (for "New Religious Movement"), "anti religious bigotry," "apostates," etc.
This is why articles such as this one are so important to educate the public regarding Scientology's most important (and essential to its survival) fraudulent assertion:
Religion Angle's Twisted History by Mike Rinder | Ex Scientologist Message Board
Smart criminals make it a point to know all about their "rights" and the law, and to bend, skirt, and abuse the law whenever they can. Scientology, as a criminal organization,
by design, is no different.
Alerting the public is key.
Scientology is a for-profit psychological-political (power seeking) operation.