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Law & Crime reports:
Former Alabama judge Roy Moore cannot revive his defamation lawsuit against comedian Sacha Baron Cohen over the latter’s “pedophile detector” sketch, which was “clearly comedy,” a federal appeals court ruled on Thursday.
The ruling falls less than a month after Moore’s attorney Larry Klayman compared his client to Johnny Depp before a skeptical three-judge panel at the Second Circuit Court of Appeals. “He deserves a jury,” Klayman said of Moore on June 10.
The Second Circuit panel did not take long to unanimously disagree, returning an 11-page summary order extolling the virtues of comedy as a vehicle of social commentary.
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As I reported in May 2021, Klayman failed to appear at a hearing he had demanded to boot a federal judge from the case.
I’ve been reporting on Klayman for so many years, I can’t even keep track of how many crackpots he has represented or the insane suits he has filed.
Perhaps most memorable is the time he stood outside the White House with a bullhorn and shouted for President Obama to “put down the Koran and come out with your hands up.” Klayman, you may recall, filed multiple birther lawsuits against Obama.
In 2020, a federal court dismissed his multi-billion dollar suit on behalf of Laura Loomer against Google, Apple, Twitter, and Facebook. Last year he sued the government of China for $20 billion for releasing COVID as a “bioweapon.”
Roy Moore Loses Appeal Seeking to Revive Suit Against Sacha Baron Cohen: Court Says ‘Pedophile Detector’ Sketch Was ‘Clearly Comedy’https://t.co/uOpylmv6it
— Law & Crime (@lawcrimenews) July 7, 2022