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Judge Maze set the table for what remains of GOP Senate candidate Roy Moore\u2019s two defamation suits\u2014one against political action committees that ran ads against Moore\u2019s candidacy in Alabama\u2019s 2017 special election, and one against the Washington Examiner and several of its editors and columnists\u2014for calling Moore a \u201cpedophile\u201d and a \u201cchild molester.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2373,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"article-topic":[1015],"article-type":[1045],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\nRoy Moore Allowed to Proceed to Discovery on Defamation Claim Against PAC - Media Law Resource Center<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/medialaw.org\/roy-moore-allowed-to-proceed-to-discovery-on-defamation-claim-against-pac\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Roy Moore Allowed to Proceed to Discovery on Defamation Claim Against PAC - 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