Judge to consider delay in Cosby sex battery lawsuit

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FILE - In this Feb. 2, 2016 file photo, actor and comedian Bill Cosby arrives for a court appearance in Norristown, Pa. Cosby\'s lawyers are scheduled to argue on Wednesday, March 30, 2016, that a sexual battery lawsuit filed against the comedian in Los Angeles Superior Court should be delayed. The case involves a woman who contends Cosby molested her in a bedroom of the Playboy Mansion around 1974 when she was 15 years old. (AP Photo/Mel Evans, FIle)

LOS ANGELES, Calif. – A judge is scheduled to consider Wednesday whether to put a sex battery lawsuit against Bill Cosby on hold until an unrelated criminal case against the comedian is resolved.

Cosby’s attorneys are seeking the delay in a case filed by Judy Huth, a Riverside County woman who accuses the comedian of forcing her to perform a sex act on him when she was 15 years old. Huth sued Cosby in December 2014, claiming the abuse happened in a bedroom of the Playboy Mansion around 1974.

Cosby’s lawyers want the case put on hold until after Cosby resolves a sexual assault criminal case filed in Pennsylvania. That case is on hold while Cosby appeals a ruling that he did not have an immunity deal with a former prosecutor.

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