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  Lawsuit Settlement Amounts

  by Richard Oliver in

  1. watchtower
  2. child-abuse

  i have a legitimate question and i am not trying to start a fight.

  i keep reading that there were 6 child abuse lawsuits that settled for 13 million dollars.

  how do people like barbara anderson or jwsurvey or jwfacts come up with this number?

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  Religious Liberty EO

  by Richard Oliver in

  1. watchtower
  2. scandals

  what does everyone think of the new executive order on religious liberty?

  this would include a weakening of the johnson amendment so churches will be freer to either contribute to political campaigns and/or promote a candidate from the pulpit.

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  Church Property Ownership

  by Richard Oliver in

  1. watchtower
  2. scandals

  i have been reading a lot of cases that have to do with church property, especially when the church is affiliated with a larger national church.

  it looks like the most common of these is episcopal churches.

  a lot of episcopal churches wanted to disaffiliate with the national church when the national church ordained an openly gay bishop, the local churches wanted to join the anglican church of uganda.

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  Doe, et al v National Union Fire Insurance Company of Pittsburgh, PA.

  by Richard Oliver in

  1. watchtower
  2. child-abuse

  this is a lawsuit brought by watchtower against an insurance company.

  the company provided four insurance policies between 1989 and 1993. the policies were there to pay out any liability damages that would arise during that time from any damages caused by elders and mss advice.

  there were a number of exceptions that were spelled out in the policy which included that of a sexual nature and that if an elder or ms violated a law then the payout would not qualify.

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  Presas v Watchtower

  by Richard Oliver in

  1. watchtower
  2. child-abuse

  the plaintiff is cosine persas, at the time of the filing he was in jail and started this action pro se, which is without a lawyer.

  when a pro se lawsuit is filed the federal court screens the complaint as a matter of course to determine a few things, that would include, to see if the lawsuit is malicious in nature, if the complaint did not state a claim on which relief can be granted and if the defendant is immune from a lawsuit.

  this screen occurs automatically and does not require the defendant, watchtower, to file any motions.. persas makes the allegations that he was abused by a person named rosa who he met through the congregation.

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  Castro v Bushman

  by Richard Oliver in

  1. watchtower
  2. child-abuse

  belen castro sued the toppenish congregation along with watchtower bible and tract society of new york and watchtower bible and tract society, because she was molested when she was 11 and 12 years old.

  he had sued virgil bushman, the perpetrator, but that was settled prior.

  watchtower along with the congregation won the motion for summary judgment and belen then appealed the decision.

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  Doe, et al v National Union Fire Insurance Company of Pittsburgh, PA.

  by Richard Oliver in

  1. watchtower
  2. scandals

  this is a lawsuit brought by watchtower against an insurance company.

  the company provided four insurance policies between 1989 and 1993. the policies were there to pay out any liability damages that would arise during that time from any damages caused by elders and mss advice.

  there were a number of exceptions that were spelled out in the policy which included that of a sexual nature and that if an elder or ms violated a law then the payout would not qualify.

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  Maddox v Integro USA, Inc, et al

  by Richard Oliver in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  i know that this is old but going through and posting about every lawsuit that i can find in this decade with watchtower either good or bad if it has not already been posted.

  this lawsuit was brought in the federal district court for the eastern district of louisana.

  it involves a family whose mother had died at a district convention in 2011. the mother, patsy, was descending stairs at the convention which was held at the mitchell center in mobile, alabama when she fell and was fatally injured.

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  Lewis V Watchtower

  by Richard Oliver in

  1. watchtower
  2. child-abuse

  as some may know as reported by jwsurvey in october 2014 that a lawsuit against watchtower was initiated in vermont.

  march 30, 2017 saw a resolution to this case with a summary judgment being filled in watchtower favor..

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  What do you think the Australian Government will do?

  by Richard Oliver in

  1. watchtower
  2. child-abuse

  i am not wanting to start a fight.

  i just want to hear what people think.

  honestly and realistically, what do you think the australian government will do, with watchtower, when they receive the full arc report?.

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