Ten Bill Cosby Accuses Get the Green Light

Last year ten women filed a lawsuit against Bill Cosby in Nevada, accusing the 87-year-old comedian of sxual misconduct [click here if you missed that].

A judge has ruled the case can move forward...

From Law & Crime

A federal judge in Las Vegas allowed a group of women to move forward with their lawsuit against Bill Cosby after a new Nevada state law abolished the statute of limitations for civil claims by survivors of sxual violence.

In 2023, Nevada adopted SB 129, the Justice for Victims of Crime bill, which lifted the civil statute of limitations for adult sxual assault survivors. Following passage of the new law, a group of 10 women sued Cosby for sxual assault, battery, assault, intentional infliction of emotional distress, negligent infliction of emotional distress, and false imprisonment. Like many of the other women who have said they were victimized by the actor, the Nevada plaintiffs each alleged that allege that from the early 1970s through the early 1990s, Cosby “lured them into an isolated environment, drugged, or attempted to drug them, and then sxually assaulted them.”

Cosby asked the court to dismiss the claims against him on both procedural and substantive grounds. Although U.S. District Judge Gloria Navarro agreed to dismiss the sxual assault claims on the grounds that sxual assault itself is a crime and not a state tort, she left the majority of the plaintiffs’ claims intact and sided with them on nearly all legal arguments raised by Cosby.

Read the full decision here