Who hauled him into court. I thought he was in court for stealing ideas from Holy Blood, Holy Grail, not for attacking Christianity. Completely irrelevant.
If you believe that the bogus charges of the court case - stealing ideas - wasn't a red-herring, you do believe in fiction.
He wasn't charged with plagiarism - and anyone in the literary world knows that ideas cannot be copyrighted...exactly the judges judgment.
It was a ruse in the far hope of getting a judge who would comply and ban the book and the movie.