By Joseph De Avila
WSJ
July 8, 2022
A federal appeals court threw out a $95 million defamation lawsuit filed by former Alabama Supreme Court Chief Justice Roy Moore against comedian Sacha Baron Cohen.
Mr. Moore filed the lawsuit after appearing on Mr. Cohen’s television show “Who Is America?”, a political satire in which the comedian played a variety of roles. Attorneys for Mr. Moore said the former judge was tricked under false pretenses to appear on the show and was falsely portrayed as a pedophile.