Bill Cosby wins right to delay evidence

Comedian Bill Cosby won the right to delay providing evidence in a lawsuit in Massachusetts, in which he is accused of defaming women with public assertions that they fabricated sexual misconduct allegations against him.

In his ruling, the federal judge hearing the case cited a risk Cosby might be forced to disclose facts prosecutors would use in a separate criminal case against him in Pennsylvania.

Cosby, who personified the model American family man in his long-running hit television series The Cosby Show, was charged last year in Pennsylvania with sexually assaulting former basketball coach Andrea Constand in 2004.