{"id":121240,"date":"2017-10-04T03:38:26","date_gmt":"2017-10-04T07:38:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=121240"},"modified":"2017-10-04T03:38:26","modified_gmt":"2017-10-04T07:38:26","slug":"appeals-court-to-consider-defamation-case-against-bill-cosby","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2017\/10\/04\/appeals-court-to-consider-defamation-case-against-bill-cosby\/","title":{"rendered":"Appeals court to consider defamation case against Bill Cosby"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_121241\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-121241\" style=\"width: 739px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/739px-2011_Bill_Cosby.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-121241\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/739px-2011_Bill_Cosby.jpg\" alt=\"A federal appeals court is set to examine a defamation lawsuit filed against Bill Cosby by a woman who claims he raped her decades ago. (Photo By The World Affairs Council of Philadelphia, CC BY 2.0)\" width=\"739\" height=\"900\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/739px-2011_Bill_Cosby.jpg 739w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/739px-2011_Bill_Cosby-246x300.jpg 246w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 739px) 100vw, 739px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-121241\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">A federal appeals court is set to examine a defamation lawsuit filed against Bill Cosby by a woman who claims he raped her decades ago. <a href=\"https:\/\/commons.wikimedia.org\/w\/index.php?curid=37016983\">(Photo By The World Affairs Council of Philadelphia, CC BY 2.0)<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>BOSTON \u2014 A federal appeals court is set to examine a defamation lawsuit filed against Bill Cosby by a woman who claims he raped her decades ago.<\/p>\n<p>Katherine McKee is asking the 1st U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Boston on Wednesday to reinstate her lawsuit against Cosby, which a federal judge in Massachusetts dismissed in February.<\/p>\n<p>The former actress says Cosby defamed her in a letter that his lawyer sent to the New York Daily News demanding a retraction of a 2014 story about McKee&#8217;s rape allegations.<\/p>\n<p>McKee&#8217;s lawyer says the letter was a \u201cpurposeful attack\u201d on her character and reputation made with \u201cill will, malevolence and evil intent.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The judge who dismissed the lawsuit said Cosby&#8217;s letter was protected by the First Amendment.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BOSTON \u2014 A federal appeals court is set to examine a defamation lawsuit filed against Bill Cosby by a woman &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":121241,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,106],"tags":[10006,26011],"class_list":["post-121240","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","category-hollywood","tag-bill-cosby","tag-defamation-case","mauthors-the-canadian-press"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121240","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=121240"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121240\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/121241"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=121240"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=121240"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=121240"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}