Over two months after a L.A. Superior Court judge rejected Janice Dickinson’s attempt to add lawyer Marty Singer to her defamation case against Bill Cosby, her lawyers have now taken the issue up the legal food chain.
In an April 8 filing to the 2nd Appellate District, the former America’s Next Top Model judge wants Judge Debre Weintraub’s February 9 ruling in the matter dismissed. If successful, this move (read it here) would see the Hollywood heavyweight attorney added to the ongoing nearly year-long case as a defendant.
“Judge Weintraub got it right in February when she struck all the allegations against Mr. Singer,” Singer’s lawyer Andrew Brettler of Lavely & Singer told Deadline today. “We’re very confident that the Court of Appeal will affirm her decision.” Dickinson’s lead attorney Lisa Bloom also said Tuesday “we are taking this step to continue to fight for every possible legal redress for our client Janice Dickinson.”
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Dickinson first sued Cosby last May for defamation for the statements Singer made to the media in late 2014 calling her story of a 1982 drugging and rape by Cosby a “lie” and that Dickinson was a “liar.” Cosby and his long time lawyer Singer parted company in October 2015. Not long after, Dickinson added Singer as a defendant in an amended complaint in her case.
In early November last year, Judge Weintraub cranked up the volume on the matter and ordered depositions in the case for both Cosby and Singer. However, on November 12, the 2nd District Court of Appeals laid down a temporary stay on the scheduled depos. All sides then filed more briefs in the action, with Dickinson wanting the stay lifted and Cosby’s team wanting it kept in place. The stay was lifted but a decision from the Appeal Court then threw the whole thing back to Judge Weintraub to make a ruling on adding Singer and the anti-SLAPP motion from Cosby’s side – which she did most recently on March 29.
In that ruling the L.A. Superior Court judge ruled that while the November 18 correspondence to two media organizations was covered by the anti-SLAPP statute, the more widely distributed November 19 statements from Singer about Dickinson’s allegations of sexual assault were not – setting the stage for a trial in the matter. Right now both sides are expected back in the downtown courtroom on May 17 for a status conference.
Someone called Janice a liar!.Wouldn’t be the first time nor Im sure the last.Trouble is she has gotten away with her lies all her life with no repercussions. Hopefully that will change.
I believe her.
She’s so skanky. And broke. In more than
one way.
Ugh. So gross.
yes, Marty is the epitome of class and propriety and the raped woman is the villain.
Has anyone been CONVICTED of rape yet?
I might have missed something.
Marty Singer . . . defaming those against his clients is his favorite SOP. He loves to slander opponents within an inch of the law, every time.
What I been reading is Janice and Lisa lies are their Interpretation of truth.
Example: Janice said many times Bill Cosby slammed the door in my face and nothing happen back in 1982 but after filing bankrupt and seeking money to pay Lisa and her Creditors. Now Bill Cosby drugged me and rape me in 1982.
Very Very serious and scary allegations to pen on any man.
Which story is the truth?
If you want to know the truth, just ask ask Sylvester Stallone.
While he was bedding her, she claimed he knocked her up!
DNA don’t lie, wasn’t his!
Hope she don’t sue me next.
William Kunstler would talk about how the import of taking the least desirable clients was to help assure that all the more desirable clients’ constitutional rights were protected. Janice may be on the edge of credibility… she may be hanging off the cliff of credibility hanging on by a fingernail. But there are over fifty of these women who have come forward, and I bet most reading this note on DH know at least one or two other women who have similar horror tales from confrontations with Mr. Cosby. But the issue here, specifically, is the attorney: hasn’t Mr. Singer proven over his decades of pit bulling, that he’s more comfortable on the wrong side of the argument (Charlie Sheen doesn’t do drugs, Arnold Schwarzenegger never had sex outside of his marriage, etc etc etc)?
Singer isn’t so much a lawyer as a damage control expert. If you’re a public figure who’s been accused of something embarrassing, you pay him lots of money and he’ll call up his friends at the press and label your opponents as “liars” with “widely discredited claims” even if the claims haven’t been discredited at all. An ethical lawyer might say “we believe these claims will be discredited” or “we intend to prove our client’s innocence” but that’s not Marty. He publicly attacks a plaintiff in very absolute terms which is why he commits slander.
So anyone can claim 30 yrs later that you
assaulted them and they ha e the right to
continue to slander you, with no evidence.
Anybody from your past, can put a claim out
on you. And what if it is fabricated.
What if it’s not true.
Cosbys lawyers should go after all of them
for slander and defamation.
No evidence.