Bill Cosby seeks court sanctions against accuser over deposition leak

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Source: Reuters

Comedian Bill Cosby filed legal papers on Tuesday calling for court sanctions against a woman accusing him of sexual assault, saying she breached their confidentiality agreement in the leak of his full deposition from a 10-year-old civil case to the New York Times.

Cosby, 78, made the filing in U.S. District Court in Philadelphia in opposition to recent motions by Andrea Constand, a former Temple University employee who has alleged the comedian tricked her into taking drugs before he sexually assaulted her.

The lawsuit she brought against Cosby was settled for an undisclosed sum in 2006, and all documents from the litigation were sealed until a federal judge on July 6 released limited redacted excerpts from Cosby's 2005 deposition testimony in the case.

Those excerpts included Cosby's admission under oath that he had obtained Quaaludes, the brand name for a sedative widely abused as a recreational drug in the 1970s, with the intent of giving the pills to young women in order to have sex with them.

Read more: http://in.reuters.com/article/2015/07/22/us-people-cosby-idINKCN0PV2K220150722

[CBGLuthier]

1. If she did this the court should admonish her and fine her $0.01

That is about what that asshole's reputation is worth.

[Erich Bloodaxe BSN]

2. There's got to be more in the linked story, because

all I'm seeing in the OP is that the court unsealed documents, not that 'she released them'.

[CBGLuthier]

7. I think they are referencing this

The New York Times has since obtained its own record of Cosby's deposition and posted additional excerpts on its website, revealing testimony in which the entertainer described how he had pursued women and how he obtained Quaaludes.

Cosby's own court filing on Tuesday stressed that the deposition excerpts so far unsealed by the judge contain no testimony that he engaged in any non-consensual sex or gave anyone Quaaludes without their knowledge or consent.







The judge ordered a redacted set released and then later the NY Times published more so his new filing is saying the new stuff was not in what was authorized so they are assuming she leaked it.

[Erich Bloodaxe BSN]

8. Ah, thanks. That makes more sense. nt

[LiberalElite]

3. Uh, that cat will not go back into the bag eom

[truthisfreedom]

14. That horse has left the barn.

[Orrex]

4. I can kind of see his point.

How dare those dozens of women be drugged and raped by him? Where's their compassion for a down-on-his-luck multi-megamillionaire?

[Novara]

5. I thought the court unsealed them

Not the victim, right?

[unblock]

6. according to the article, not exactly.

well, according to cosby's lawyer, anyway, the court unsealed only some portions of the deposition; but then somehow the new york times obtained the entire deposition.

i'm inclined to agree with an earlier post, the court should find in favor of cosby and find the defendant one dollar.
that's actually the standard fine for "yeah, technically, i have to fine you, but i really don't want to."

[tanyev]

9. Yeah, because the real problem here is the breach of a confidentiality agreement.

[marble falls]

10. Totally on target, I'm with you.

[restorefreedom]

18. in cosby world, it is

all the more disgusting

[Calista241]

11. She took money from Cosby and sign a confidentiality agreement.

She will be sanctioned for this, and likely asked to return the money she was paid.

Cosby is still a rapist dick though.

[Kelvin Mace]

12. That has yet to be established in court

so it is speculative, and possibly defamatory if she did not leak the documents.

I am willing to give her the presumption of innocence directly proportional to what Cosby has enjoyed for 30 years.

[Elmer S. E. Dump]

15. How do you prove it was her and not someone else that released the doc?

[blackspade]

13. Cosby, flailing around searching for some way to get the spotlight off of him.

Fail.

[Kber]

16. The main reason for Cosby's legal team to take a hard line here

is to discourage other women who may be in a similar position from doing the same thing.


Kber

[cstanleytech]

17. Thats assuming there are other women he settled with, I personally havent heard of any others.

The courts though are the one that will decide if she violated the settlement agreement and while they may have sympathy for her they will probably have to punish her if she did leak this because it could undermine settlement agreements in general if the courts were to start picking and choosing which ones to let people ignore.