I don't think the complaint is primarily a whistle blower situation, but that ties in. I would think the Courts would be quite familiar with that aspect thanks to the tabacco corporations.
I think the main thrust of the Anderson complaint rests upon the truth of the matter of what happens to a person's reputation when they're disfellowshipped - particularily a person who fights against the WTBTS.
ALL JW's will know (in their version of truths) that Barbara & Joe Anderson are fighters against Jehovah God himself....because the WTBTS is God's Organization. Speak against the organization, speak against God. And any person who resists God deserves to be destroyed by God in The Everlasting Lake of Fire - akin to the Hellfire doctrine. That's the basic thought of an apostate - one who fights Jehovah God & His Organization. Yep, we know our WT Bibles.
Barbara & Joe, Bill Bowen, and I believe ARoarer & her husband (is this correct?) were ALL df'd a week before Dateline - which ties in with the whistleblower aspect. No True JW would put faith in what they said after being df'd.....they were just "disgruntled former members." Even people of other faiths might think that too. It was so obviously a manuver to keep jw's from putting too much trust in the truthfullness of the molestation information - and to ruin the reputations of the Dateline participants. Afterall, how can one of God's people trust a Servant of Satan - apostates are out just to persecute God's True People.
But what's worse is that by being df''d - ALL those persons reputations were slandered, cannot be repaired in the eyes of their jw families & friends (former). In the closed eyes of JW's - these people belong to Satan now.
And the pompous WT lawyer stands up and tells the judge....yep, that's the way it is.....and we can do it because we're a religion.
Hopefully, the WTBTS will be made to stop destroying people in the Name of God.
waiting