{"id":68287,"date":"2016-01-03T22:20:43","date_gmt":"2016-01-04T03:20:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=68287"},"modified":"2016-01-03T22:20:43","modified_gmt":"2016-01-04T03:20:43","slug":"judge-says-bill-cosbys-wife-must-give-deposition-in-defamation-lawsuit-against-comedian","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2016\/01\/03\/judge-says-bill-cosbys-wife-must-give-deposition-in-defamation-lawsuit-against-comedian\/","title":{"rendered":"Judge says Bill Cosby&#8217;s wife must give deposition in defamation lawsuit against comedian"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_68297\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-68297\" style=\"width: 402px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/402px-Bill_Cosby_2015_Sexual_Assault_Charge_Mugshot.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-68297\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-68297\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/402px-Bill_Cosby_2015_Sexual_Assault_Charge_Mugshot.jpg\" alt=\"December 30, 2015 mug shot of Bill Cosby following an arraignment for felony sexual assault of Andrea Constand (Photo and description from Wikipedia)\" width=\"402\" height=\"480\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/402px-Bill_Cosby_2015_Sexual_Assault_Charge_Mugshot.jpg 402w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/402px-Bill_Cosby_2015_Sexual_Assault_Charge_Mugshot-251x300.jpg 251w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 402px) 100vw, 402px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-68297\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">December 30, 2015 mug shot of Bill Cosby following an arraignment for felony sexual assault of Andrea Constand<br \/>(Photo and description from <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Bill_Cosby_sexual_assault_allegations\" target=\"_blank\">Wikipedia<\/a>)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>BOSTON\u2014A federal judge has denied a motion by Bill Cosby&#8217;s wife to throw out a subpoena requiring her to give a deposition in a lawsuit brought by seven women who accuse the comedian of sexually assaulting them decades ago.<\/p>\n<p>The ruling issued Thursday by U.S. Judge Magistrate David Hennessey in Springfield, Massachusetts, means Camille Cosby is scheduled to be deposed by lawyers for the women on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>In his 12-page decision, Hennessey said Camille Cosby failed to prove that she and her husband were protected by the state&#8217;s marital disqualification law. He also rejected claims that the value of the testimony would be outweighed by the \u201cundue burden\u201d it would cause.<\/p>\n<p>Cosby has filed a countersuit against the women, accusing them of making false allegations for financial gain.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BOSTON\u2014A federal judge has denied a motion by Bill Cosby&#8217;s wife to throw out a subpoena requiring her to give &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":68297,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,106],"tags":[35],"class_list":["post-68287","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","category-hollywood","tag-original","mauthors-the-associated-press"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68287","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=68287"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68287\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/68297"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=68287"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=68287"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=68287"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}