BREAK OUT THE POPCORN: Jackie Coakley must testify in lawsuit over Rolling Stone gang-rape hoax. [archive]
A Virginia judge has ruled that the woman at the center of Rolling Stone’s discredited story about an alleged frat house gang rape must testify as part of a lawsuit against the magazine.
[Jackie Coakley] will be deposed on Thursday by attorneys representing Rolling Stone and Nicole Eramo, the University of Virginia administrator who is suing the magazine and the author of the now-retracted article, Sabrina Rubin Erdely. . . .
Attorneys for Jackie had resisted the deposition, arguing that she would be re-victimized if forced to recount the incident under oath and it could bring her “extreme psychological” and “irreparable harm.”
At a hearing held Monday in a Charlottesville, Virginia, Judge Glen E. Conrad denied a motion filed by Jackie’s attorneys to quash the deposition subpoena.
Related, from January: Judge: Jackie Coakley not covered by patient-counselor privilege in ‘Rolling Stone’ defamation suit. [archive]