How often has the WTS been sued in a court of law?
In the past, there have been reports of legal action
being threatened or taken against the Watchtower Society.
Typically, what happenes is that someone, or
some family wants to sue the WT, they get an
attorney, papers are filed in court, something
appears in the local newspapers, the WT flies
in some heavy duty lawyers. Then nothing further
is heard about the matter, and the people who
started the action become silent, as if whatever
the problem was, had just went away or never even
happened!
Does the WT settle out of court? and if so, what
sort of money do they pay to do so? (What is the
average settlement figure? $10,000?)
and if they settle out of court, does the WTS
insist on a gag order? so that no one outside a
limited circle will even know anything happened?
I have a hunch that the WT is quite busy on the
legal front, and that essentially everything has
been kept quit and swept under the rug.
This might change in the near future though.
--VM44