Judge in Prince Andrew sex-abuse lawsuit declines to OK release of secret settlement that could help him
The headline-making sex-abuse lawsuit against Prince Andrew is inching along after a first hearing in New York on Monday – and there wasn't a lot of good news for the royal to come out of it.
A federal judge declined to OK the release of a secret settlement agreement that Andrew's lawyers think could absolve him of liability in the case.
Instead, the 40-minute telephone hearing before U.S. District Judge Lewis Kaplan in Manhattan focused on process serving and the relevant rules in America and the United Kingdom, and whether those rules were met when a process server left a copy of the lawsuit at the front gate of Andrew's Windsor residence last month.
No immediate decision was made:Kaplan gave the parties several deadlines to make their case about whether or not Andrew was properly served, and whether officials at the English high court need to weigh in on the question. Kaplan set another hearing on the issue for Oct.13.
Prince Andrew rejects sexual abuse accuser's 'potentially unlawful' lawsuit -lawyer https://t.co/Bxrc0ldctk pic.twitter.com/YDNDBIKrsG
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