Attorneys for Roy Moore have asked a judge to dismiss a defamation lawsuit filed by one of Moore's accusers over the issue of the venue where the lawsuit was filed.

Moore's attorneys filed the motion to dismiss on Monday afternoon.

Meanwhile, the judge presiding over the case has given the accuser, Leigh Corfman, two weeks to respond to Moore's request to move the case from Montgomery County to Etowah County.

Moore asked that the case be relocated because there was no reason for it to be heard in Montgomery County. Moore also pointed out that he and Corfman both live in Etowah County and witnesses called in the case would likely be from there as well.

In the motion to dismiss, Moore's attorneys argued again for the case to be moved to Etowah County if it is not dismissed altogether.

The filing said that at the time Corfman filed her lawsuit last month against Moore and the Judge Moore for U.S. Senate committee, the committee was located in Etowah County.

Moore's attorneys said the committee functioned only for banking and accounting purposes. Corfman's suit points to five individuals aside from Moore who "repeated Moore's false denials of sexually abusing Corfman when she was 14 years old and Moore's reckless accusations of improper motivations.

"The five individuals spoke during the campaign not as agents of the committee but as agents of the campaign or the candidate," Moore's Monday filing said.

Moore's response said that of the five people who, according to the Corfman lawsuit, repeated Moore's denials, only two were paid members of the campaign - campaign chair Bill Armistead and campaign manager Rich Hobson.

In a concluding paragraph, Moore's attorneys again maintain that Moore, the campaign committee and Corfman all reside in Etowah County. And none of the allegations in the lawsuit occurred in Montgomery County.