MONTGOMERY, Ala. —

A judge has dismissed a defamation lawsuit filed by former Alabama Supreme Court Chief Justice Roy Moore against a woman who accused him of sexually assaulting her in Gadsden in the 1970s when she was a teenager and he was a deputy district attorney.

The lawsuit was filed after Beverly Nelson came forward in 2017 with allegations that Moore sexually assaulted her while he was running for an Alabama U.S. Senate seat. Moore eventually lost the election and then filed the lawsuit against Nelson.

Court documents regarding the dismissal state that Moore's responsive pleading is "troublesome," saying it does not contain "one single statement of fact" that Moore did not commit a sexual transgression against Nelson.

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