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Roy Moore wants judge removed, order vacated in Sacha Baron Cohen lawsuit
I think this motion to recuse is pretty clearly going to be denied, tho to be fair it was not entirely appropriate for the judge to play "Thank Heaven For Little Girls" on his iPhone every time Roy Moore's case was called
Link to tweet
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Roy Moore wants judge removed, order vacated in Sacha Baron Cohen lawsuit
Updated May 16, 6:49 PM; Posted May 16, 12:40 PM
By Paul Gattis | pgattis@al.com
Roy Moore wants the federal judge who ruled against him in the $95 million lawsuit he and wife Kayla filed on comedian Sacha Baron Cohen to resign from the case, criticizing the judge for being disrespectful and preparing an order before hearing oral arguments.
Moore also asks that the judge’s ruling – granting a request from Cohen to move the lawsuit from Washington D.C. where Moore filed it to the southern district of New York – be reconsidered. ... Moore's attorney, Larry Klayman of Washington, filed the motion on Tuesday.
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Attorneys for Moore and Cohen appeared before U.S. District Judge Thomas F. Hogan last month to make oral arguments over Cohen's motion to move the case to New York. ... The judge granted Cohen's motion at the end of the hearing.
“To be honest and straightforward, given the manner in which this Court appeared to disrespect and disparage Plaintiff Moore at the outset of the hearing over whether he could still be referred to as Chief Justice of the Alabama Supreme Court – indeed a public figure such as a judge never loses his or her title -- and then at the conclusion of the hearing read from an apparently pre-prepared order that was obviously penned even before the Court heard oral argument, it would appear that the Court not only prejudged Defendants’ motion to transfer, but also harbored extra-judicial bias toward Chief Justice Moore,” the motion from Moore’s attorney said.
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Roy Moore wants judge removed, order vacated in Sacha Baron Cohen lawsuit
Updated May 16, 6:49 PM; Posted May 16, 12:40 PM
By Paul Gattis | pgattis@al.com
Roy Moore wants the federal judge who ruled against him in the $95 million lawsuit he and wife Kayla filed on comedian Sacha Baron Cohen to resign from the case, criticizing the judge for being disrespectful and preparing an order before hearing oral arguments.
Moore also asks that the judge’s ruling – granting a request from Cohen to move the lawsuit from Washington D.C. where Moore filed it to the southern district of New York – be reconsidered. ... Moore's attorney, Larry Klayman of Washington, filed the motion on Tuesday.
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Attorneys for Moore and Cohen appeared before U.S. District Judge Thomas F. Hogan last month to make oral arguments over Cohen's motion to move the case to New York. ... The judge granted Cohen's motion at the end of the hearing.
“To be honest and straightforward, given the manner in which this Court appeared to disrespect and disparage Plaintiff Moore at the outset of the hearing over whether he could still be referred to as Chief Justice of the Alabama Supreme Court – indeed a public figure such as a judge never loses his or her title -- and then at the conclusion of the hearing read from an apparently pre-prepared order that was obviously penned even before the Court heard oral argument, it would appear that the Court not only prejudged Defendants’ motion to transfer, but also harbored extra-judicial bias toward Chief Justice Moore,” the motion from Moore’s attorney said.
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The link to the document didn't work for me.
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