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Bill Cosby’s civil trial begins for alleged 1975 sexual assault of teen at Playboy Mansion

Nearly a year after being freed from prison, Bill Cosby is facing yet another sexual assault allegation in a court case kicking off in California Wednesday.

Tribune News Service

Cosby Faces Abuse Allegations again as Civil Trial Opens

Bill Cosby will again be facing sex abuse allegations Wednesday as attorneys give opening statements in a civil trial that's one of the last remaining legal claims against the comedian. Lawyers for 64-year-old Judy Huth will outline the evidence they plan to present that Cosby forced her to perform a…

Asharq Al-Awsat

Cosby faces sex abuse allegations again as civil trial opens

Bill Cosby is again facing sex abuse allegations in court as a civil trial begins in California

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Here’s why Bill Cosby is back on trial nearly a year after he was released from prison

Bill Cosby is going back on trial for alleged sexual assault, nearly a year after he was released from prison on an overturned criminal conviction in a different case.

Los Angeles Times

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The Guardian - UK

Bill Cosby accused of sexual abuse as civil trial begins in Los Angeles

Judy Huth, who alleges Cosby assaulted her at Playboy Mansion in 1975 when she was 16, sues for damages in trial set to last two weeks

The Guardian - US

Bill Cosby lawyers cry foul as civil sex assault trial looms

With less than a week to go before a civil trial, Bill Cosby's lawyers are crying foul over a change in the story of a woman who alleges he sexually assaulted her at the Playboy Mansion

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Mario Batali acquittal underscores perils of #MeToo cases

Legal experts and victims’ advocates say celebrity chef Mario Batali’s acquittal on sexual assault charges underscores the inherent difficulties of prosecuting such cases nearly five years into the #MeToo era

The Independent UK

Academy member on trial over child molestation charges draws scrutiny

LOS ANGELES — Jeffrey Cooper, a renowned architect and acoustic engineer, carved out a prestigious place in the Hollywood firmament. Over the years he designed movie theaters and sound studios, including an Academy of Television Arts and Sciences theater and more than two dozen of the mixing studios that produced…

Los Angeles Times

Will Smith resigns from Academy after Oscars slap

Will Smith resigned from the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences on Friday, five days after slapping Chris Rock onstage at the Oscars.

Tribune News Service

Can the Will Smith and Chris Rock slap live on stage force the Oscars to change their ways?

Ripples from 94th Academy Awards, the slap, and the joke that led to it, are likely to reverberate across Hollywood — an industry that has for years been trying to recover from allegations of misogyny, racism and sexual harassment.

ABC News

What does it take to be kicked out from the Oscars?

There have only been five expulsions from The Academy in it is 92-year history including a registered sex offender

Wales Online

Could the Academy really take Will Smith's Oscar back after he hit Chris Rock on stage?

Will Smith can expect sanctions after he hit actor Chris Rock on stage — but he's unlikely to be stripped of his Best Actor Oscar.

ABC News

All the times Kanye West has defended abusive men, as he faces criticism over Kim Kardashian and Pete Davidson outbursts

West has defended Bill Cosby and others

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Salon

Cosby is free, SCOTUS won't revisit case

The actor and comedian was once known as "America's Dad" before his stint behind bars

Benzinga

US Supreme Court Declines To Revisit The Bill Cosby Case

The U.S. Supreme Court declined to hear a challenge brought by prosecutors in Pennsylvania regarding a state court ruling that overturned comedian Bill Cosby’s sexual assault conviction.

Los Angeles Times

Supreme Court refuses to revive Pennsylvania conviction against Bill Cosby

WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court refused Monday to review the Pennsylvania state court ruling that overturned the criminal sex-abuse convictions against comedian Bill Cosby on the grounds that he may have been wrongly induced to admit his guilt.

Mic

Olivia Rodrigo, Kendrick Lamar, and all the artists speaking out after SCOTUS’s Roe ruling

With Glastonbury and the BET Awards, performers had ample opportunity to speak out from stage.

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US Supreme Court Nixes Bid to Reinstate Bill Cosby’s Conviction

Bill Cosby avoided renewed legal jeopardy on Monday when the US Supreme Court declined to hear a bid by prosecutors to undo last year's ruling in Pennsylvania that overturned the 84-year-old actor and comedian's 2018 sexual assault conviction. The justices let stand the decision by a divided Pennsylvania Supreme Court…

Chicago Sun-Times

Supreme Court won’t review decision that freed Bill Cosby

The high court issued the ruling without comment to let the stunning decision from Pennsylvania that released Cosby from prison in June.

The Philadelphia Inquirer

US Supreme Court declines to hear push to reinstate Bill Cosby’s sex assault conviction

The U.S. Supreme Court has declined to consider reinstating Bill Cosby’s 2018 sexual assault conviction, effectively ending a nearly two-decade legal saga that briefly saw the 84-year-old comedian incarcerated.

The Independent UK

Bill Cosby: Supreme Court refuses to review decision to free actor

Comedian was convicted for drugging and molesting Andrea Constand in 2004

Axios

Supreme Court rejects appeal of Bill Cosby's overturned sexual assault conviction

Cosby had been sentenced to 3–10 years in prison for drugging and molesting a woman.

The Independent UK

High court won't review decision freeing Cosby from prison

The Supreme Court says it will not take up the sexual assault case against comedian Bill Cosby, leaving in place a decision by Pennsylvania’s highest court to throw out his conviction and set him free from prison

Salon

The injustice of "Law & Order" returning

What is the role crime shows play in lionizing the police? The O.G.'s return proves that TV hasn't learned much

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