▶ Judge opens Cosby case file
A federal judge in Philadelphia ruled Monday that lawyers for seven women suing Bill Cosby for defamation can see much of the case file of a lawyer for the Canadian accuser in a 2005 sexual assault lawsuit against the comedian. Judge Anita Brody denied a request from Cosby to block a subpoena seeking the file of Dolores Troiani, a lawyer for former Temple University employee Andrea Constand. Constand reached a confidential settlement with Cosby in the civil case. Late last year, Pennsylvania prosecutors charged Cosby criminally in the alleged assault on Constand. Cosby has pleaded not guilty. The judge said she is not ruling on whether a jury in the Massachusetts defamation case will get to see the material, only on whether the lawyer for the women in the defamation suit can have access to it.