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Supreme Court rejects Roy Moore's push to restore $8.2M defamation verdict

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Chandler, K. (2026, October 5). Supreme Court rejects Roy Moore's push to restore $8.2M defamation verdict. Toronto Star. https://www.thestar.com/news/world/united-states/supreme-court-rejects-roy-moore-s-push-to-restore-8-2m-defamation-verdict-awarded-to-him/article_13ebe88c-986d-51a0-8299-c36aa5dcd10f.html

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The Supreme Court has refused to reconsider a lower court's decision that nullified an $8.2 million defamation verdict against Democratic-aligned groups for an advertisement during Roy Moore’s 2017 Senate race in Alabama. The case involves Moore’s appeal of a ruling from the 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, which had overturned a jury’s finding that Moore was defamed by the ad.

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The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday rejected former Alabama Senate candidate Roy Moore's appeal to restore an $8.2 million defamation verdict from a 2017 case. The original lawsuit stemmed from a Democratic-aligned super PAC ad during the election that alleged Moore had sexually harassed teenage girls decades earlier. Despite the initial jury ruling in favor of Moore, the 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals overturned the decision, and the Supreme Court's refusal to hear Moore’s appeal means this verdict will stand. This outcome effectively ends Moore’s legal efforts to reclaim damages from the allegations that derailed his Senate candidacy.

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🔮 “I didn’t get justice for my daughter,” May Martinez said Thursday.

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🔮 Pike, 50, who was convicted of murdering her classmate, 19-year-old Colleen Slemmer, in 1995, would have been the first woman to be executed in the state in more than 200 years.

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🔮 Pike, now 50, was 18 when she committed the murder and would have been the first woman executed in Tennessee in more than 200 years.

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🔮 Leaving prison in an ambulance, not a hearse Pike, now 50, was 18 when she committed the murder and would have been the first woman executed in Tennessee in more than 200 years. But instead she survived two doses of the pentobarbital meant to kill her.

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🔮 Tennessee is preparing to put to death Christa Gail Pike for a 1995 murder she committed at age 18 in what would be the state’s first execution of a woman in at least 200 years.

2026-09-30 · assertive framing · Tennessee prepares to execute a woman for a crime she committed at age 18

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MONTGOMERY, Alabama (AP) — The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday rejected Roy Moore’s push to restore an $8.2 million defamation verdict over a 2017 Senate race ad funded by a Democratic-aligned super PAC. asserted

Court → reject → PAC

Justices declined to hear Moore’s appeal of a lower court decision that vacated the large verdict. asserted

that → decline → verdict

The outcome keeps in place the decision by the 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals that erased a jury’s decision that Moore had been defamed by the ad. asserted

Moore → keep → ad

Supreme Court rejects Roy Moore's push to restore $8.2M defamation verdict

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