By order of the Superior Court of the State of California - County of Alameda (see documents below), until the Watch Tower's appeal, which won't begin until August 13th and will take up to TWO YEARS
to settle due to due process of law, has forbidden the Watch Tower to
sell any more of its $1 BILLION in assets in the Borough of Brooklyn
until the appeals case is finished, to assure they won't shelter their
monies in the light of this most huge and devastating sexual abuse
scandal ever to hit the Watch Tower Society, and perhaps any other
single-victim lawsuit.
Filed on June 19, 2012, DEFENDANTS
WATCHTOWER AND NORTH FREMONT CONGREGATION’S EX PARTE APPLICATION TO STAY
ENFORCEMENT OF JUDGMENT;
Defendants Watchtower
applied for an Order temporarily staying enforcement of any judgment
that may in the future be entered in this matter on the verdicts
returned by the jury on June 13 and 14, 2012, until ten (10) days after
the last day on which a notice of appeal may be filed, and (2)
extinguishing any existing liens, levies or attachments and preventing
the creation of any new liens, levies or attachments during the pendency
of the temporary stay.
Defendants claimed that
this matter is necessary because: (1) the Church Defendants intend to
file post-trial motions and, therefore, the final judgment may be
eliminated, reduced, modified, or otherwise affected; (2) the Church
Defendants presently intend to file an appeal should their post-trial
motions be denied in whole or in part and, therefore, they will need
time to obtain the requisite bond, …
Also filed
on June 19, 2012, PLAINTIFF JANE DOE’S LIMITED OPPOSITION TO DEFENDANTS
WATCHTOWER BIBLE AND TRACT SOCIETY OF NEW YORK, INC. AND NORTH FREMONT
CONGREGATION’S EX PARTE APPLICATION TO STAY ENFORCEMENT OF JUDGMENT.
Plaintiff
has no objection to an Order preventing the creation of any new liens,
levies, or attachments, provided she is protected from a distribution of
assets in avoidance of the judgment.
There are
no existing liens, levies, or attachments to extinguish, as a result of
which, that part of the Ex Parte request is moot. However, Plaintiff’s
willingness to agree to a stay of execution of the judgment to be filed
shortly is conditional. To avoid a massive transfer of real estate
assets worth, at present, approximately $1 Billion, from Watchtower to
another corporate entity of Jehovah’s Witnesses, which would leave
Plaintiff with no enforcement right for the Judgment, Plaintiff requests
that any stay be subject to the condition that defendant Watchtower
Bible and Tract Society of New York, Inc. not transfer, convey, or
change title to any of its real property prior to the filing of a bond
or undertaking required as a condition of appeal.
Defendant filed on June 19, 2012 a REPLY BRIEF IN SUPPORT OF EX PARTE APPLICATION TO STAY ENFORCEMENT OF JUDGMENT stating:
Plaintiff’s
opposition states a willingness to agree to a stay of execution of the
judgment on the condition that Defendant Watchtower “not transfer,
convey, or change title to any of its real property prior to the filing
of a bond or undertaking required as a condition of appeal.” This
condition puts the proverbial cart before the horse.
As
explained in the ex parte application, a temporary stay of enforcement
of the judgment is necessary to protect the Church Defendants because of
the uncertainty of the judgment, …
Temporary
stays like the one the Church Defendants are requesting here are
routinely granted to protect the parties when a judgment is uncertain.
While Defendant Watchtower has absolutely no intent to make any
fraudulent transfers of real property now or in the future, to the
extent any such transfers of real property should occur during the stay
to prevent Plaintiff from collecting on any ultimate judgment that may
survive the post-trial motions and appeals, remedies would plainly be
available to Plaintiff. That said, again, Plaintiff’s claimed concern is
premature, plus the Church Defendants have no intention of defrauding
Plaintiff out of any judgment that ultimately may be owed to her once
all post–trial motions and appeals have run their course. …
Filed
June 20, 2012 (Decision of Hon. Robert D. McGuinnes, Judge of the
Superior Court) BY THE COURT, ORDER GRANTING DEFENDANTS WATCHTOWER AND
NORTH FREMONT CONGREGATION’S EX PARTE APPLICATION TO STAY ENFORCEMENT
OF THE JUDGMENT.
After considering the submitted
papers, including any response or opposition filed on behalf of
Plaintiff, the Court grants the Church Defendants’ application as
follows:
GOOD CAUSE APPEARING, IT IS HEREBY ORDERED THAT:
(1)
Enforcement of the judgment to be entered on the jury’s special
verdicts of June 13 and 14, 2012 shall be temporarily and completely
stayed and, pending another order of court [The last five words were
handwritten in by the judge]
(2) Any existing
liens, levies or attachments pertaining to the forthcoming judgment
referenced in (1) above are here by extinguished RDM [RDM handwritten
in by the judge]
Then the judge included in his own handwriting a number 3:
(3)
The foregoing stay is expressly conditioned upon D’s The Watchtower
Bible and Tract Society of New York Inc’s not transferring, conveying or
changing title to any real property in its name today pending further
order of court
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