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Following up on an article in the July issue of Entertainment Law & Finance that detailed some of the arguments made before the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit in Roy Moore's defamation suit against Sacha Baron Cohen, the court has issued its ruling.The Second Circuit has upheld a Manhattan federal district court ruling dismissing former Alabama U.S. Senate candidate Roy Moore's defamation suit against the comedian Sacha Baron Cohen, in finding that a Cohen performance featuring Moore was "clearly comedy." Moore v. Cohen, 12-1702.
Moore's attorney, Larry Klayman of Klayman Law Group, said he planned to file a petition for an appellate rehearing en banc.
Moore sued Cohen in 2018, accusing him of defamation and intentional infliction of emotional distress in connection with Moore's 2018 appearance on Cohen's Showtime television show Who Is America? in which Cohen claimed to be an anti-terrorism expert wielding a device that could detect sex offenders and pedophiles.
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