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Bill Cosby accuser Louisa Moritz plans class lawsuit over alleged sex assaults: report
New York Daily News ^ | 11/24/2014 | BY NANCY DILLON , CORKY SIEMASZKO

Posted on 11/24/2014 10:46:53 AM PST by SeekAndFind

he actress, best known for her role as Rose in the Oscar-winning ‘One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest,’ is among a dozen women who’ve leveled tawdry claims about Cosby. She contends the comedian assaulted her before a 1971 appearance on ‘The Tonight Show,’ and is reportedly trying to get at least nine others to join her in a class action against him.

It’s a legal longshot, but an actress who has accused Bill Cosby of sexual assault four decades ago is planning to sue him.

And Louisa Moritz is trying to get at least nine other women to join her in a class action against the embattled funnyman — even though in her case the criminal statute of limitations may be long passed.

Best known for her role as Rose in the Oscar-winning “One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest,” Moritz revealed her plans to TMZ.com.

Moritz, one of a dozen women who have come out of the woodwork with tawdry accusations against Cosby, claims the comedian assaulted her before a 1971 appearance on "The Tonight Show" with Johnny Carson.

The Cuban-born actress said she was in a dressing room when Cosby knocked on her door and offered kudos for her acting. She said Cosby buttered her up with an offer to "make her a major star" before he attacked her.

(Excerpt) Read more at nydailynews.com ...


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KEYWORDS: billcosby; classaction; rape
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1 posted on 11/24/2014 10:46:53 AM PST by SeekAndFind
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To: SeekAndFind

According to Celebrity Net Worth, Bill Cosby net worth is $400 million.

See here:

http://www.foodworldnews.com/articles/9341/20141119/bill-cosby-net-worth-updates-s-billy-midst-sexual-assault.htm


2 posted on 11/24/2014 10:47:13 AM PST by SeekAndFind (If at first you don't succeed, put it out for beta test.)
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To: SeekAndFind
And the courts will allow a dozen or so bitching women who never reported the crime at the time it happened rip into Cosby's wealth. Damn this is so apparently using the corrupt court system to get rich.
3 posted on 11/24/2014 10:51:25 AM PST by Logical me
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To: Logical me

I’ve been asking myself this question -— How do you prove rape vs consensual sex?


4 posted on 11/24/2014 10:53:23 AM PST by SeekAndFind (If at first you don't succeed, put it out for beta test.)
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To: SeekAndFind

You can’t.

Which means we make the decision based on which of the parties tells a better story.

Somewhat of a problem when various of the parties are professional actors.

Actually it’s a problem anytime. Unless someone can explain a way to reach an honest verdict of “guilty beyond a reasonable doubt” based solely on one person’s testimony that is directly contradicted by another person’s.


5 posted on 11/24/2014 10:55:45 AM PST by Sherman Logan
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To: Sherman Logan

And is these supposedly happened in the early 70’s.

Over 40 years ago !!

It now becomes a numbers game. Over a dozen women vs one man.


6 posted on 11/24/2014 10:57:47 AM PST by SeekAndFind (If at first you don't succeed, put it out for beta test.)
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To: SeekAndFind
I’ve been asking myself this question -— How do you prove rape vs consensual sex?

You can't. But, if you can widely publicise your accusations and get some more "victims" to join your cause, you can overwhelm the target (the very wealthy Cosby in this case) and do a class action suit in hopes that he'll pay you off to get you off his back.

7 posted on 11/24/2014 10:59:49 AM PST by Cementjungle
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To: SeekAndFind

Louisa Moritz back in the day


8 posted on 11/24/2014 11:00:01 AM PST by Iron Munro (Obama "I stand with the 2/3 who were too lazy, disinterested, stupid or dead to vote")
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To: SeekAndFind

Waiting for hard evidence, not made up memories and drug induced flashbacks


9 posted on 11/24/2014 11:01:17 AM PST by wrench (Ebola is not a threat to the US. 0bama says so, and he would never lie..........)
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To: SeekAndFind

So she is admitting she is a racist. #narrative


10 posted on 11/24/2014 11:01:57 AM PST by AppyPappy (If you are not part of the solution, there is good money to be made prolonging the problem.)
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To: Iron Munro

She reminds me of a bustier version of Goldie Hawn.


11 posted on 11/24/2014 11:01:59 AM PST by SeekAndFind (If at first you don't succeed, put it out for beta test.)
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To: SeekAndFind

Which is itself evidence. I will go out on a limb and say any woman I’ve ever been friends with or worked with would immediately say that I’d never do something like this. Which I wouldn’t.

The numbers game wasn’t allowed to work for Clarence Thomas. Something like 20 women testified he’d always behaved as a perfect gentleman. One testified he’d made some uncouth comments and that’s what got all the media attention.

I have to thank the media for one thing, though. My wife watched the actual hearings during the day, then the evening news with me. She was amazed and appalled at the great difference between what had happened in the hearings and what the news said had happened.

Started her move away from liberal POVs. So I’ve got that going for me.


12 posted on 11/24/2014 11:02:49 AM PST by Sherman Logan
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To: SeekAndFind

It’s also reasonable to note some of the accusations are less than 10 years old.


13 posted on 11/24/2014 11:03:44 AM PST by Sherman Logan
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To: SeekAndFind

And Bill Clinton is walking around free.


14 posted on 11/24/2014 11:04:53 AM PST by MrB (The difference between a Humanist and a Satanist - the latter admits whom he's working for)
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To: SeekAndFind
Moritz, one of a dozen women who have come out of the woodwork with tawdry accusations

Notice that it is the accusations characterized as tawdry - not the alleged conduct.


15 posted on 11/24/2014 11:07:44 AM PST by Iron Munro (Obama "I stand with the 2/3 who were too lazy, disinterested, stupid or dead to vote")
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To: SeekAndFind
What is the likelihood of the media rallying to the defense of a popular, influential black man when he is accused of lying or bad conduct?

No chance of that happening here in America.

/s


16 posted on 11/24/2014 11:12:37 AM PST by Iron Munro (Obama "I stand with the 2/3 who were too lazy, disinterested, stupid or dead to vote")
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To: SeekAndFind

I wonder what’s going through the leftist powers-that-be at Temple University. Let’s see: Donation money vs black man vs multiple credible women. It must be cognitive dissonance at its finest.


17 posted on 11/24/2014 11:14:05 AM PST by bkopto (Free men are not equal. Equal men are not free.)
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And Bill Clinton is walking around free.

The three women I know who accused Bill Clinton of sexual violence are:

Paula Jones, [ Clinton agreed to an out-of-court settlement, and agreed to pay Jones and her attorneys a sum of $850,000].

Kathleen Willey alleged Clinton groped her in a hallway in 1993.

Juanita Broaddrick alleged Clinton had raped her though she did not remember the exact date, which may have been 1978

All the others (e.g. Monica, Gennifer Flowers) seem to have been consensual...
18 posted on 11/24/2014 11:16:20 AM PST by SeekAndFind (If at first you don't succeed, put it out for beta test.)
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To: SeekAndFind

when a superior who has leverage over employee’s job has sex with a subordinate according to what I learned in sexual harassment training, it is not considered consensual because the power of the higher rank is factored into the scenario.

Not a crime, but sexual harassment.

List from a thread here last week.
Bill Clinton’s record of brutality against women,

Juanita Broaddrick (AR)- rape
Eileen Wellstone (Oxford) - rape
Elizabeth Ward Gracen - rape - quid pro quo, post incident intimidation
Regina Hopper Blakely - “forced himself on her, biting, bruising her”
Kathleen Willey (WH) - sexual assault, intimidations, threats
Sandra Allen James (DC) - sexual assault
22 Year Old 1972 (Yale) - sexual assault
Kathy Bradshaw (AK) - sexual assault
Cristy Zercher - unwelcomed sexual advance, intimidations
Paula Jones (AR) - unwelcomed sexual advance, exposure, bordering on sexual assault
Carolyn Moffet -unwelcomed sexual advance, exposure, bordering on sexual assault
1974 student at University of Arkansas - unwelcomed physical contact
1978-1980 - seven complaints per Arkansas state troopers
Monica Lewinsky - quid pro quo, post incident character assault
Gennifer Flowers - quid pro quo, post incident character assault
Dolly Kyle Browning - post incident character assault
Sally Perdue - post incident threats
Betty Dalton - rebuffed his advances while married to one of his supporters


19 posted on 11/24/2014 11:21:01 AM PST by morphing libertarian
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To: SeekAndFind

Now we’re down to the nitty gritty. Cos has just too much money.


20 posted on 11/24/2014 11:35:40 AM PST by JimSEA
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