Woman seeks revival of defamation suit against Bill Cosby
Published:Wednesday | October 4, 2017 | 11:49 AM
Woman seeks revival of
defamation suit against Bill Cosby
BOSTON (AP):
An attorney for a woman who says Bill Cosby raped her more than four decades ago has urged a federal appeals court to revive her defamation lawsuit against the comedian.
F. William Salo told a three-judge panel of the 1st US Circuit Court of Appeals yesterday that Cosby destroyed Katherine McKee's reputation when his lawyer wrote a letter demanding a retraction of a 2014 New York Daily News story about her rape allegations.
Cosby's attorney told the judges that a federal court in Massachusetts was right to dismiss her lawsuit. Alan Greenberg said McKee would have to prove Cosby acted with actual malice because she became a kind of public figure when she gave the interview.
The judges are expected to rule in the coming weeks.