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BREAKING: Roy Moore LOSES Defamation Lawsuit Against Sacha Baron Cohen For "Who Is America" Segment!
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4:05Now PlayingBREAKING: Roy Moore LOSES Defamation Lawsuit Against Sacha Baron Cohen For "Who Is America" Segment!
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Roy Moore loses lawsuit against Sacha Baron Cohen
A federal judge in New York on Tuesday handed a defeat to former Alabama Chief Justice Roy Moore in his lawsuit against actor and comedian Sacha Baron Cohen, of "Borat" fame.
In a 26-page ruling, U.S. District Judge John Cronan said Moore had waived his right to sue over a satirical segment that appeared on a 2018 episode of Cohen’s comedy series “Who is America?”
Moore and his wife, Kayla Moore, brought the suit for defamation and emotional distress after the former judge was duped into sitting for an interview with the comedian. During the segment, Cohen posed as an Israeli counterterrorism expert and suggested Roy Moore was a by using what he claimed was a detection device invented by the Israeli army.
In his ruling, Cronan said Roy Moore’s claims were “barred by the unambiguous contractual language” that he agreed to be bound by. Additionally, Cronan ruled that Kayla Moore’s claims were barred by the First Amendment.
“Given the satirical nature of that segment and the context in which it was presented, no reasonable viewer would have interpreted Cohen’s conduct during the interview as asserting factual statements concerning Judge Moore,” Cronan wrote.
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