Roy Moore defamation 訴訟 against accusers is paused
MONTGOMERY, 式の. (AP) - A 裁判官 has paused a defamation 控訴 とじ込み／提出するd by Roy Moore against women who （刑事）被告 him during his 不成功の U.S. 上院 企て，努力，提案 of past 不品行／姦通.
回路・連盟 裁判官 Albert Johnson 支配するd last month 事例／患者 will be held on the 行政の docket until a 関係のある defamation 事例／患者 against Moore by one of the women is 解決するd.
During Alabama's 2017 special 上院 race, several women （刑事）被告 Moore of having 追求するd 関係s with them １０年間s ago when they were teens and he was in his 30s. Leigh Corfman said Moore sexually touched her in 1979 when she was 14 and he was a 32-year-old 検察官，検事.
Moore 否定するd the 主張s.
Moore said Friday he went to 法廷，裁判所 to （疑いを）晴らす his 指名する and the 法廷，裁判所's 決定／判定勝ち（する） is "very 不公平な."
"Nothing that's happened to me has been fair in 法廷，裁判所. Nothing," Moore said.
FILE - In this June 20, 2019, とじ込み／提出する photo, former Alabama 長，指導者 司法（官） Roy Moore 発表するs his run for the 共和国の／共和党の 指名／任命 for U.S. 上院 in Montgomery, 式の. A 裁判官 has paused a defamation 控訴 とじ込み／提出するd by Moore against women who （刑事）被告 him during his 不成功の U.S. 上院 企て，努力，提案 of past 不品行／姦通. (AP Photo/Julie Bennett, とじ込み／提出する)
Corfman とじ込み／提出するd a defamation 訴訟 against Moore last year. Four months later, Moore later countersued her and other accusers.
Johnson says Corfman's 事例／患者 will proceed first.
Moore is a former Alabama 裁判長 who has a strong に引き続いて の中で some evangelical 投票者s. He was twice 除去するd from the （法廷の）裁判 for 反抗するing, or 勧めるing 反抗, of 法廷，裁判所 orders regarding same-sex marriage and the public 陳列する，発揮する of the Ten Commandments in a 明言する／公表する 法廷，裁判所 building.
Support from evangelical 投票者s helped Moore 安全な・保証する the GOP 指名／任命 to 取って代わる Jeff 開会／開廷／会期s in the U.S. 上院, but Moore lost the 2017 上院 race to U.S. Sen. Doug Jones まっただ中に the 告訴，告発s against the ex-司法（官）.
Moore is running for the 上院 again. He is part of a （人が）群がるd 共和国の／共和党の 最初の／主要な field competing for the GOP 指名／任命 and the 権利 to challenge Jones in 2020.
