Bill Cosby’s appeal of a federal court order unsealing documents from a 2005 lawsuit against him is “pointless” and moot, lawyers for The Associated Press said in a reply brief filed this week in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit.
Cosby filed his appeal after U.S. District Judge Eduardo C. Robreno of the Eastern District of Pennsylvania granted the AP’s motion to intervene in Constand v. Cosby, unsealing a number of documents from the lawsuit brought by Andrea Constand, which resulted in a confidential settlement. In the AP’s reply brief, attorneys Gayle C. Sproul and Elizabeth Seidlin-Bernstein argued Robreno did not abuse the court’s discretion, but even if he did, there is no relief available.
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