Comedian Bill Cosby has lost another attempt to stop Judy Huth’s sexual assault lawsuit in California. Huth claims that she was sexually abused by Cosby at the Playboy Mansion in 1974, when she was only 15.
Huth filed her lawsuit in December. While the Los Angeles DA declined to file criminal charges in Huth’s case due to the statute of limitations, the civil lawsuit has continued.
Cosby has tried a few times to get the civil lawsuit dismissed. In May, the California Court of Appeals declined his request to have it dismissed. On Wednesday, Cosby had another attempt thwarted when the California Supreme Court said it would not review the case, reports CNN.
Gloria Allred, who is representing Huth, called the decision a “huge, huge victory” for her client. According to Reuters, Allred also said that she hopes to have Cosby make a sword deposition within the next month.
Huth claims that she went to the Playboy Mansion in Los Angeles with a 16-year-old friend. She claims that, after being told to go to a specific bathroom, Cosby sexually molested her. “He then proceeded to sexually molest her by attempting to put his hand down her pants, and then taking her hand in his hand and performing a sex act on himself without her consent,” the suit reads.
Cosby’s attorneys have said that Cosby should not have been publicly named in the suit and that Huth had tried and failed to sell her story to a tabloid. If that’s the case, then the statute of limitations would be up, even when it comes to filing a civil lawsuit.
Cosby’s team is also fighting ongoing media coverage of the 1,000-page deposition transcript in the 2005 Andrea Constand lawsuit. That case was settled in 2006 and Cosby’s attorneys said that the deposition should not have been made public.
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