Three weeks after issuing a press release headlined “Where is Leigh Corfman?” the issue over when Roy Moore’s accuser would sit for a deposition has been resolved.

Attorneys for both sides agreed during a hearing in Montgomery on Monday morning that Moore would complete his nearly-finished deposition and then Corfman would give hers in the defamation lawsuit she brought 14 months ago against the 2017 U.S. Senate candidate.

That resolution fell in line with the position stated by Corfman's lawyers in court filings, who maintained that Moore should answer the final questions in a deposition largely completed in October. After that point, their client would answer questions from Moore's attorneys.

Moore's team had expressed concerns that Corfman would tailor her answers to Moore's. But Corfman's attorneys have repeatedly said she will have no advance knowledge of Moore's testimony.

The bulk of the hearing lingered into the figurative legal argument weeds as Moore's attorneys presented their case orally to Montgomery County Circuit Judge John Rochester to supplement their motion to dismiss the lawsuit.

Neither Moore nor Corfman attended the hearing.

Rochester listened to lawyers from both sides make their cases but did not issue an immediate ruling. However, he said that granting a motion to dismiss is a rare occurrence unless a defendant presents a "compelling" case.

Rochester then said he was sure that Moore's attorneys believed they had presented such a case.

Moore's lawyers emphasized that their client never attacked Corfman, who told The Washington Post in a story published a month before the Dec. 12, 2017 Senate election that Moore had made unwanted sexual advances when she was 14 and he was 32.

Moore has repeatedly denied the accusations.

"All you can do is deny it," Moore attorney Julian McPhillips told the judge. "All of a sudden, you can be sued because you denied it."

Corfman's lawsuit, which makes no specific requests for money and seeks a public apology from Moore, focused on Moore use of the phrase "false and malicious" when describing Corfman's allegations. That statement was made in a lawsuit Moore filed soon after the narrow election win by Doug Jones in an effort to stop the process of making the results official.

"He says he doesn't know her from Adam's housecat," McPhillips said.

Corfman attorney Jeffrey Doss said that the lawsuit spells out defamatory statements against Corfman not only from Moore but also representatives of his Senate campaign and, in turn, from the public.

Doss also said that Moore's denials went beyond what was necessary and suggested that all Moore needed to do was to say he did not know Corfman and her accusations were not true.

Moore and his campaign, Doss said, went "above and beyond mere denial."

In discussion about Corfman's request for the judge to enter a "declaratory judgment" against Moore and require his apology, Rochester said he did not see how a sincere apology could be demanded from Moore.

No trial date has been set for the case.