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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

The Independent UK

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…

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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

The Independent UK

Cosby is free, SCOTUS won't revisit case

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

Salon

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.

Benzinga

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.

Los Angeles Times

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.

Mic

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…

Asharq Al-Awsat

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.

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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

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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

Chicago Tribune

R. Kelly officially cuts ties with Chicago legal team, hires Bill Cosby’s appellate attorney

CHICAGO — Convicted R&B singer R. Kelly on Wednesday officially cut ties with his original Chicago legal team and opted to have the attorney who successfully appealed Bill Cosby’s conviction defend him against pending abuse allegations in federal court here.

Los Angeles Times

Under scrutiny once more, 'The Cosby Show' raises issues 'bigger than Cosby'

There's been quite a bit of talk about Bill Cosby since the start of "We Need to Talk About Cosby."

The Guardian - US

The Cosby Show was a groundbreaking show that will forever be tainted

A new docuseries on the allegations against Bill Cosby reminds us of the impact his sitcom had and how watching it will never be the same again

Salon

How does a Black man reckon with Cosby?

W. Kamau Bell appeared on "Salon Talks" to discuss dealing with Cosby's legacy, and how you can't erase any of it

The Independent UK

Bill Cosby likely to avoid testifying in sex assault lawsuit

A Los Angeles judge appears strongly inclined to allow Bill Cosby to invoke his Fifth Amendment privilege and avoid giving a deposition in the lawsuit of a woman who alleges he sexually abused her when she was 15 in the mid-1970s

Tribune News Service

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