Former Alabama Chief Justice Roy Moore has scheduled a press conference for Thursday in Gadsden at which he said he will announce the filing of a new lawsuit.

The press release announcing the upcoming lawsuit said the new lawsuit will be brought "against different defendants regarding false allegations made against him during the special election for U.S. Senate."

The announcement gave no other details about the lawsuit.

Moore previously called a press conference April 30 to announce the filing of a political conspiracy lawsuit against five defendants related to allegations made against Moore a month before election day in last year's U.S. Senate special election.

The defendants include three women who have made accusations against Moore: Leigh Corfman, Beverly Young Nelson and Tina Johnson. A fourth woman, Deborah Wesson Gibson, said she briefly dated Moore as a teen when he was in his 30s. The fifth defendant, Richard Hagedorn, is friends with some of the other defendants, according to Moore's lawsuit.

That lawsuit was filed in Etowah County circuit and all six judges in that district recused themselves from the case. The lawsuit has been assigned to retired Russell County Circuit Judge Albert L. Johnson Sr.

Moore is also a defendant in a lawsuit brought by Leigh Corfman, who raised the most serious accusations against Moore during the campaign. Moore has filed a counter lawsuit against Corfman in that case in Montgomery County.