Bob Dylan Awarded Sanctions in Dismissed Sexual Assault Case

Attorneys for a woman who dropped her lawsuit accusing Bob Dylan of sexually abusing her decades ago must pay sanctions for noncompliance with discovery requests.

Sanctions are appropriate because the attorneys, Daniel Isaacs and Peter Gleason, engaged in “willful” noncompliance with the court’s discovery orders, Judge Katherine Polk Failla of the US District Court for the Southern District of New York said Thursday.

The attorneys’ “blasé attitude towards their discovery obligations,” which lasted for months, “despite multiple directives from the court, and despite multiple detailed explanations from defense counsel concerning what materials were missing, constitutes willfulness,” Failla said.

Monetary sanctions ...