Posted on 07/13/2021 4:17:04 PM PDT by Coronal
A federal judge on Tuesday dismissed the lawsuit brought by former Alabama Chief Justice Roy Moore against the comedian who ridiculed him on his cable television show.
U.S. District Judge John Cronan of the Southern District of New York granted summary judgment in favor of Sacha Baron Cohen in a 26-page memorandum. The suit was dismissed with prejudice, which means Moore cannot refile the suit.
Showtime Networks Inc. and CBS Corporation were also granted summary judgement.
Moore’s attorney, Larry Klayman, immediately filed notice that Moore intended to appeal the ruling to the U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals.
Moore and his wife, Kayla, filed the lawsuit in 2018 and sought $95 million in damages after Moore appeared on Cohen’s “Who Is America?” show.
The episode aired July 29 with Cohen submitting an unwitting Moore to a test to determine if he was a pedophile. On the show, Cohen determined that Moore failed the test. The joke played off accusations made against Moore in the final month of his U.S. Senate campaign in 2017 won by Doug Jones. Moore has repeatedly denied all accusations made by women.
The judge ruled in favor of Cohen because Moore signed a waiver prior to his appearance on the TV show.
“The Court agrees that Judge Moore’s claims are barred by the unambiguous contractual language, which precludes the very causes of action he now brings,” the judge wrote in his order.
After sensing the joke, Moore walked off the set of the TV show.
In the Showtime episode, Cohen posed as an Israeli anti-terrorism expert Col. Erran Morad, who was interviewing Moore when he mentioned a new piece of technology-- a device that detects a hormone from pedophile’s sweat.
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Cohen is seriously NOT funny
Trump judge.
IF people need you to sign crap before you talk to them, you will probably end up in crap.
Roy Moore might be conservative, but he is a buffoon.
It’s hard to believe he was ever a judge if he filed a lawsuit that was summarily dismissed for the simple reason that he signed a contract that precluded him from taking legal action.
Bear in mind that he was elected to the judicial posts he held. It would seem that the voters valued his political and religious beliefs over his legal expertise.
I assume he was proceeding under some sort of fraudulent inducement theory.
Maintaining the Roy Moore tradition - being a loser.
What little I’ve seen of him I agree.
Not all contracts are binding.
A jury might believe that this kick to the groin was beyond the pale.
I have to agree.
In a roundabout way, he did give us Tommy Tuberville, who seems good.
Definitely an improvement over Doug Jones and Jeff Sessions.
:)
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