For the second time in six weeks, the Alabama Supreme Court has rejected a request by Roy Moore to move a lawsuit filed against him in Montgomery County to his home county of Etowah.

The Supreme Court on Friday echoed its Aug. 17 ruling that the suit brought by Leigh Corfman - who alleged that Moore touched her in a sexual way when she was 14 and he was 32 - should remain in Montgomery.

The high court issued its ruling Friday, giving no opinion on the case. Moore had asked the court for a rehearing following its August ruling.

The trial judge denied Moore's motion in April.

Corfman filed a defamation lawsuit in January against Moore. Moore has since filed a counter lawsuit.

Moore described the Supreme Court's ruling in August as "ridiculous."

Moore had asked the judge to dismiss the lawsuit because it was not filed in the proper venue -- arguing that it rightfully should have been filed in Etowah County, where Corfman said the encounter with Moore occurred. Moore's attorneys also said that the case should be moved to Etowah County for the convenience of the parties involved, saying that both the plaintiff and defendant reside in Etowah County.

The response from Corfman's attorneys on the venue issue were that Moore wanted the case moved to Etowah County because it would be a "home forum." And that of the nine people named or involved in the lawsuit, all but three live closer to Montgomery than the Etowah County seat of Gadsden. Those three, Corfman said, are Corfman, Moore and Corfman's mother, who did not mind traveling to Montgomery.

And Corfman argued that Moore's attorneys, in a December lawsuit filed in a failed attempt to have the election results certified, was filed in Montgomery County. In that lawsuit, Moore's attorneys described Corfman as making "false and malicious attacks."