California Court of Appeal, Fourth District, Division One, “Lopez v. Watchtower Bible and Tract Society of New York, Inc. (No. D066388)”
“known to have been guilty of child molestation”
The court's description of the 14 March 1997 letter whose responses the trial court had ordered produced. The trial court had struck Watchtower's answer for refusing to comply and entered a $13.5 million default judgment; the Court of Appeal upheld the document-production order but vacated the terminating sanction and default judgment because lesser sanctions should have been tried first, and vacated the order to depose Governing Body member Gerrit Lösch.
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Provenance and verification note for California Court of Appeal, Fourth District, Division One, Lopez v. Watchtower Bible and Tract Society of New York, Inc. (No. D066388)
Confidence note. Full opinion opened on FindLaw.
Corroborated by. src-cal-2017-1109-padron-v-watchtower
Notes. Jose Lopez was the named plaintiff (San Diego County).
Accessed. 19 September 2026 · Source ID. src-cal-2016-0414-lopez-v-watchtower