Just to clear up a point, greendawn, the ex-JW who was threatened with a lawsuit was David Reed, who for many years published a small newsletter "Comments from the Friends". So far as I know, Reed was threatened only by Massimo Introvene, founder of CESNUR, for claiming that Introvene and company were members of "vampire cults" when in actuality they were members of something called "Transylvanian Society of Dracula" which apparently is some sort of tongue-in-cheek 'historical' society. See Reed's webpage here: http://www.cftf.com/online/
Nevertheless, the Society's involvement with CESNUR is really no different in principle from its cynical involvement with the UN, because as soon as Reed publicized the Society's upcoming attendance at the 1998 CESNUR conference, its three delegates suddenly became too ill to show up.
AlanF