Bill Cosby drops remainder of federal suit against accuser

Comedian Bill Cosby on Thursday dropped the remaining counts of a lawsuit he filed against one of the women accusing him of sexual assault, along with several others, claiming they violated the terms of a confidential settlement in another lawsuit.

The dismissal comes 10 days after U.S. District Judge Eduardo Robreno ruled that Cosby could not sue Andrea Constand, her mother, Gianna Constand, or her attorneys, Dolores Troiani and Bebe Kivitz, for speaking to investigators about her accusations.
Cosby filed the suit in February, accusing the Constands, the lawyers and American Media Inc., publisher of the National Enquirer, of violating the terms of a 2006 confidential settlement.
Robreno let stand Cosby’s other claims, including that Constand, a former Temple University basketball coach, violated the confidentiality agreement through posts she made on Twitter about the case and in comments to the Toronto Sun newspaper.



Those remaining claims were dropped in a two-page notice filed in United States District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania on Thursday, according to online court documents.
Cosby, 78, faces accusations of sexual assault by more than 50 women. He has denied having non-consensual sex with any of them.
Constand’s allegations that he drugged and assaulted her at his Pennsylvania home in 2004 are the basis for the only criminal case against him so far. Most of the other alleged assaults occurred too long ago for the cases to be prosecuted.
The 2006 agreement stemmed from a lawsuit Constand filed against Cosby in 2005 over the alleged assault and a separate legal action she took against the National Enquirer for defamation.



 Andrea Constand

Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

High school grads don bikinis for chance to become flight attendants

Image
Candidates prepare to audition for flight attendant and modeling jobs in Qingdao, China, on Dec. 28. Photo: ZUMA Wire So much for women’s liberation — in this country, in order to work as a flight attendant, you need to look good in a bikini. About 1,000 female high school graduates paraded in their swimwear this week in order to gain a chance to work as either a model or an air hostess,according to osaswap Daily Online . The models also dressed up as flight attendants at the audition. Photo: ZUMA Wire. Modeling agency Oriental Beauty is said to have organized the event to help airline recruiters source “talent.” Although it is unknown whether the keen entrants were also skilled in evacuating a plane in case of emergency, the main thing is they looked good in bikinis. Because that matters on your flight, right? Candidates attended the audition for model and flight attendant roles in Qingdao in east China’s Shandong Province. Photo: osaswap  Photo:osaswap Pho...
Read more

Privacy Policy

Privacy Policy for www.osaswap.blogspot.com If you require any more information or have any questions about our privacy policy, please feel free to contact us by email at alendehope.ah@gmail.com. At www.osaswap.blogspot.com, the privacy of our visitors is of extreme importance to us. This privacy policy document outlines the types of personal information is received and collected by www.osaswap.blogspot.com and how it is used. Log Files Like many other Web sites, www.osaswap.blogspot.com makes use of log files. The information inside the log files includes internet protocol ( IP ) addresses, type of browser, Internet Service Provider ( ISP ), date/time stamp, referring/exit pages, and number of clicks to analyze trends, administer the site, track user’s movement around the site, and gather demographic information. IP addresses, and other such information are not linked to any information that is personally identifiable. Cookies and Web Beacons www....
Read more

The sad twilight of Koko the gorilla and her 'mother'

Image
Every year on July 4, Penny Patterson throws a birthday party near her Woodside, Calif., home. There are the usual markings of such an occasion — wrapped presents, a cake with candles, the singing of “Happy Birthday To You.” Except here, the annual guest of honor is a nearly 300-pound Western lowland gorilla named Koko. Patterson, 69, first met Koko at the San Francisco Zoo in 1971, when she was a 24-year-old graduate student at Stanford University. The following year she began teaching sign language to the baby gorilla as part of her Ph.D. project, which made Koko famous around the world for her ability to “talk.” But over the course of 45 years, what started as a scientific experiment has evolved into an unconventional family arrangement in which love and commitment mix with controversy and regret. Today, Patterson is still serving as the gorilla’s primary caregiver and their remarkable bond is the subject of the one-hour documentary “Koko: The Gorilla Who Talks,”...
Read more