Posted on 12/05/2014 8:08:36 AM PST by SteveH
A woman suing Bill Cosby for sexual battery attempted to sell a story about the comedian to a tabloid a decade ago and tried to extort money in exchange for her silence, Cosby’s attorney said in a court filing Thursday.
Attorney Martin Singer wrote in the filing that the lawsuit by Judy Huth and her attorney followed a failed attempt to extort $250,000 from Cosby. In the filing, Cosby seeks more than $33,000 from Huth and her attorney.
The filing comes two days after Huth sued, claiming the comedian forced her to perform a sex act in 1974 when she was 15. The incident occurred in a bedroom of the Playboy Mansion after Cosby gave Huth and a 16-year-old friend alcohol, according to her lawsuit.
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“Is there no statute of limitations in civil actions?”
I do not know the answer to your question. However, if she has a contingency contract with her attorney whereby the attorney gets compensated only if she wins the suit then it costs her nothing but her time to try it. ;-)
My question is, “What in the world is a 15-year-old girl doing in the Playboy mansion?????”
Yes I would wondered what she was doing there too. You are right about a contingency suit but a lawyer wouldn’t bring a suit that would be instantly tossed.
“but a lawyer wouldn’t bring a suit that would be instantly tossed.”
Yes, that is true but then the lawyer would still reap the rewards of ‘fame’ or ‘notoriety’. The ‘fame/notoriety’, in itself, is a big payment! ;-)
That state’s quirky SOL Statute says that suit may be filed within 3 years of “discovering” psychological damages.
Cosby’s attorney is saying the SOL began running 9 years ago when she tried unsuccessfully to sell her “story.” I believe he is right.
What a load of misinformation, the 2005 suit was about a one year old rape.
In 2005 the suit was over a 2004 drugging and raping of Constand, and 13 women came forward that were willing to testify to the method he used.
Just as Paula Jones's lawsuit brought forth Juanita Broaddrick.
The great speech that you think launched a great national conspiracy to bring down your republican hating, Obama supporting, Tawana Brawley rape hoax promoting Bill Cosby, was made in 2004.
criminal court and civil court are two different types of court.
If Cosby settles then every woman who ever met him and some who never did will be hiring lawyers and crying “Payday!”
If Cosby is liable for even one instance of sexual abuse, and every woman who ever met him goes after him legally, then karma is a bitch.
The LaTimes published the scam artists legal pleading.
It is unintentionally funny. What a ridiculous pleading.
I appears that this attorney does not understand the English language.
http://documents.latimes.com/judy-huth-lawsuit-against-bill-cosby/
Oh my, who knew? Roflol
Thank you for that amaaaazing revelation!
Paragraph 3 starts off... “In or about 1974...”
Roflol
Forty years ago!
they ccan’t even soecify the YEAR of the event accuratly, let alone the month or day!
So what film was Cosby involved in in Los Angeles around 1974?
Thanks for the link. Can’t really read it on my phone but I will look at it later.
The whole point of claiming it was 40 years ago: there are no records or evidence left and nobody remembers that far back. The ONLY way they can get away with these claims is because they’re “trying” the “case” in the “court of public opinion” and using the sheer numbers of the people willing to make these vague claims as their sole reason for anybody to believe the accusations without evidence.
And if we hang a guy with just these vague, late, come-and-go accusations made only at politically-opportune times.... then we deserve to have the same done to us.
The rules of evidence are to protect the innocent and document the credibility of the credible so they can be given proper attention. If we throw all that away in our “gossip”, then we’re pathetic.
There is no evidence that Cosby can use, to defend himself against a crime that doesn’t even have a specific date attached to it. The best he can do is to try to make it so that those who make false accusations will not only NOT get any money from him but will also have to PAY for the fraudulent claims. Hollywood and the political left would still make sure these women are rewarded somehow, but at least if there is a judicial penalty it might make it harder for Hollywood and/or DC to find women willing to do this.
And I suspect that Cosby is realizing that this isn’t just for his legacy, but for ANY Black man (or white, actually, or anybody) who does something successful enough to get him targeted.
The only legal defense he CAN make, then, is to show the corruption in the claims of the women. And this woman claiming that she didn’t know she was injured until now, when she tried to squeeze $250,000 from Cosby in 2005 in return for her silence, is clear perjury. Taints everything she claims, since it is known that she was willing to lie in court documents.
1974...
Fat Albert and the Cosby Kids (1972-79)
Saturday Night (1974),
Journey Back to Oz 1974
Let’s Do It Again (1975),
The only inaccurate information in what I said was that the speech was in May of 2004 rather than 2005. But the point was that the accusations came only AFTER that speech - even though the alleged rape happened 6 months BEFORE that speech.
A year and one very controversial speech after the rape supposedly happened in PA, Constand reported the “rape” to Canadian police. It was referred to a PA DA who said there was not enough evidence to file charges.
So Constand filed a civil lawsuit and showed Cosby that there were 13 women willing to make claims of incidences up to 4 decades old where there would be no possible evidence so it would simply be a media lynching.
Many of these women admit that they were druggies and/or prostitutes and didn’t report anything at the time because they knew they were non-credible and/or they didn’t think at the time that Cosby had done anything to them. At least several of them are now known to have perjured themselves.
The whole thinq blew open right before the imminent Black violence in Fergusen because an obscure comedian associated with Tina Fey (one who started the piling on Cosby back in 2005) stopped his comedy routine to do a non-funny political diatribe about Bill Cosby not being able to comment on Black “culture” because he’s a rapist. Of course, totally unscripted and totally uncoordinated with the immediate media outcry and nearly-daily updates from this line of women willing to make claims that can never be fact-checked. And totally unrelated to the 2004 “pound cake” speech after which the Cosby allegations first started.
He’s absolutely right on that. If she tried to sell her story 9 years ago then how can she claim she didn’t know she had a story until now?
And if he can prove that she tried to sell the story 9 years ago then he has effectively proven that she PERJURED HERSELF in the very act of filing this claim. That blows away her credibility and establishes that there is an extra-legal motive for the claim. The fact that she had tried to make a money deal rather than pursuing prosecution while the SOL still allowed strongly suggests that the motive is money, not “justice”.
Exactly.
And if the “court of public opinion” cares nothing about evidence, then ANYBODY the media wants to gang up on will get this same treatment.
Ted Cruz better be paying close attention. And anybody who likes Ted Cruz.
If he was guilty once then anybody who wants can loot his money just by making a civil claim? Is that what you’re saying?
Turnabout is fair play. If one of these accusers has been found guilty of fraud in any other instance, then Cosby can sue her for fraud and it will have to be ASSUMED that if she was guilty of it once she must ALWAYS be guilty of it.
That OK by you?
Because at least one - and now it looks like this Huth has been caught at it too - has already been convicted of fraud.
No, I only posted some of your inaccuracies, another was your confusing the $250,000 that Cosby’s lawyers say just came up, with having been brought in 2005.
“”Cosby’s suit says that this woman tried to qet $250,000 out of him in return for her not sayinq anythinq about this back in 2005, when all these women brouqht up these alleqedly decades-old events shortly after Cosby’s May 2005 “pound cake” speech to the NAACP””
The more desperate you become to defend Cosby, the longer and more speech making and storytelling narratives your posts become. They are becoming unreadable.
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