Bill Cosby Defamation Lawsuit Dismissed: Judge Says Comedian Didn't Slander Renita Chaney Hill

In the midst of the ongoing Bill Cosby scandal, as dozens of women have accused the legendary comedian of raping them, the Cosby Show star finds solace in court for the first time in a while. A Pennsylvania judge has dismissed Renita Chaney Hill's defamation lawsuit against him where she claimed Cosby and his attorneys had slandered her name when denying her rape allegations.

According to CNN, a Pennsylvania federal court ruled in favor of the disgraced comedian last Thursday, after his lawyers had asked for a defamation lawsuit against him to be dismissed.

Hill, one of the women accusing Cosby of sexually assaulting her, had filed the suit last October, claiming the comedian and his legal team had defamed her in front of the media after she'd stepped out to talk about her experience. There were three defamation claims against Cosby, and Judge Arthur J. Schwab dismissed them all on the grounds that they "do not support a claim for defamation as defined by Pennsylvania law."

Jezebel reports that the suit alleged that Cosby and his people had called Hill a "liar" and an "extortionist," though ultimately the judge ruled that this hadn't been the case.

"Even considering these three statements together as a combined, single statement, this newly 'conjoined' statement does not lead to an inference that plaintiff is a 'liar and an extortionist,'" reads Judge Schwab's ruling.

Still, this isn't the only pending defamation lawsuit against Cosby at the moment. Other people who have accused the comedian and his legal team of slandering them include retired model Janice Dickinson, who filed suit in California, plus seven more women in Massachusetts.

As Vulture reported a few weeks back, 78-year-old Cosby is currently facing sexual assault charges from someone believed to be Andrea Constand over an incident that allegedly occurred on the comedian's home in January 2004. The charges were pressed just barely before the statute of limitations on the case ran out.