PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Bill Cosby has replaced the law firm overseeing civil litigation around the country linked to accusations he drugged and molested women. Liner LLP, known for its work in entertainment law, is replacing lawyers with the powerhouse litigation firm Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan, Cosby spokesman Andrew Wyatt confirmed Monday. Both firms are […]
NORRISTOWN, Pa. (AP) — A Pennsylvania judge who refused to throw out Bill Cosby‘s criminal sex assault case will keep the case through trial. Montgomery County Judge Steven O’Neill has rejected defense efforts to toss the case over an agreement Cosby said he had with prosecutors to not be charged. Cosby is charged with sexually […]
BOSTON (AP) — The wife of Bill Cosby said she never read a deposition in which her husband acknowledged he gave sedatives to women he was planning to have sex with, according to an excerpt of her testimony in a defamation lawsuit against her husband. Camille Cosby testified last month in the civil case filed […]
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Bill Cosby has dropped a defamation lawsuit against supermodel Beverly Johnson, who accused the comedian of drugging her in the 1980s. Court records show Cosby’s lawyers dropped the suit on Feb. 19. His attorney Monique Pressley wrote in an email Thursday that Cosby made the move to focus on his defense […]
An L.A. Superior Court judge Tuesday dismissed an amended complaint by Janice Dickinson in her defamation suit against Bill Cosby and his former attorney Marty Singer. The former supermodel and “America’s Next Top Model” judge claims that Cosby raped her in 1982 and that lawyer Singer branded her a “liar” in late 2014 when she […]
NORRISTOWN, Pa. (AP) — Prosecutors pursuing sex-assault charges against Bill Cosby say he wants special treatment in trying to have the case thrown out even before the first evidence hearing. In a response to Cosby’s motion to dismiss the case, suburban Philadelphia prosecutors alleged that Cosby may have been “committing similar crimes for decades and […]
SPRINGFIELD, Mass. (AP) — Lawyers for Bill Cosby‘s wife are challenging a judge’s decision allowing her to be questioned under oath in a Massachusetts defamation lawsuit filed by seven women who allege Cosby sexually abused them decades ago. Last month, Magistrate Judge David Hennessy refused to quash a subpoena from lawyers who want to depose […]
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Los Angeles County prosecutors declined Wednesday to charge Bill Cosby with sexually abusing two teenagers in 1965 and 2008, citing time limits and a lack of evidence. The decision comes about a week after Cosby, 78, was charged with drugging and sexually assaulting a woman in 2004 inside his home near […]
SPRINGFIELD, Mass. (AP) — Attorneys for the wife of comedian Bill Cosby have filed a motion asking a federal judge to postpone her scheduled deposition until the appeal of a mandate requiring her testimony is settled. The Boston Globe reports that Camille Cosby‘s lawyers filed the motion Monday in an attempt to delay her deposition […]
NORRISTOWN, Pa. (AP) — Bill Cosby was charged Wednesday with sexually assaulting a woman at his home 12 years ago — the first criminal charges brought against the comedian out of the torrent of allegations that destroyed his good-guy image as America’s Dad. The case sets the stage for perhaps the biggest Hollywood celebrity trial […]
PITTSBURGH (AP) — Bill Cosby‘s attorneys have moved a defamation lawsuit by a Pittsburgh-area woman from state to federal court. The document filed late Tuesday is known as a notice of removal. It lets someone move a lawsuit to federal court if the parties live in different legal jurisdictions. The filing indicates Cosby is a […]
LOS ANGELES (AP) — A California appeals court on Thursday temporarily halted an order requiring Bill Cosby and his former attorney to give sworn testimony in a defamation lawsuit filed by model Janice Dickinson. The order Thursday by the 2nd District Court of Appeal puts plans to depose the comedian and his longtime attorney on […]
