Bill Cosby And Marty Singer To Give Depositions

 

By order of a state judge Bill Cosby and his former lawyer will have to face lawyers for another woman alleging that he sexually assaulted her.

In a brief hearing on Monday in L.A. Superior Court, attorneys for Bill Cosby were told by Judge Debra Weintraub that discovery and depositions will be permitted in the defamation case involving former America’s Next Top Model judge Janice Dickinson. The depositions of Cosby and his ex-lawyer Marty Singer must be made before November 25, according to the judge.

While not a defendant, the Lavely & Singer attorney is named in the defamation case filed this spring by Dickinson. The plaintiff cites Singer as the lawyer who on November 19 last year said her account of being raped by Cosby was “a lie.” A press statement on November 18, 2014, also disputed the truth of Dickinson’s claim that Cosby raped her in 1982. In today’s ruling lifting the current stay of discovery, Weintraub also said that in Singer’s deposition, some attorney/client privileges may be a factor in the search for malice.

After keeping allegations and claims from several women out of the public eye for decades, this upcoming deposition will be the second time in less than two months that Cosby has publicly been in the legal spotlight. On October 9, he was deposed for several hours in Boston in the case of Judy Huth. That deposition could become public on December 22, depending on what the judge in the matter deems private.