Attorneys for Roy Moore have asked a judge to rule in his favor and dismiss the defamation lawsuit filed by Leigh Corfman, bypassing a jury trial and bringing an end to the case brought by Moore’s most prominent accuser.

Moore attorney Melissa Isaak filed a motion for summary judgment on Monday, writing that her client "is entitled to judgment as a matter of law and dismissal from this case."

In the motion, Moore stipulates to the quotes attributed to him in Corfman's lawsuit and said they do not rise to the level of defamation.

"The 16 quotations and the election-suit affidavit, being simple denials of Corfman's accusations or protected opinion, are not defamatory as a matter of law," the brief supplementing the motion said.

"Judge Moore is also entitled to the shield of the self-defense privilege," the brief stated. "As would any other individual, he may defend himself against defamatory attack, including questioning his attacker's motives, without thereby exposing himself to a suit for defamation."

Corfman accused Moore of sexually molesting her in 1979 when she was 14 and he was 32. The accusations from Corfman and other women, first made in a Washington Post story, came a month before the state's special election for U.S. Senate, in which Moore was the Republican nominee.

Democrat Doug Jones won the election by less than 2 percentage points. Moore has declared his candidacy in the state’s 2020 U.S. Senate race for the seat held by Jones.

Corfman’s lawsuit, filed in January 2018, said of the quotes attributed to Moore – which he admits to saying in the summary judgment brief: “All these statements by Mr. Moore are defamatory. Mr. Moore sexually abused Ms. Corfman in 1979, when she was 14 years old and he was in his early 30s, and Mr. Moore’s denials of these facts are false and characterizations of Ms. Corfman’s account is truthful because he was the perpetrator in the event she described.”

Moore has repeatedly denied the accusations by Corfman and other women.

Corfman’s lawsuit, which asked for a jury trial, noted that Moore described her accusations as “false and malicious” two weeks after the election in an affidavit in a lawsuit he brought to stop the election’s certification – an indication, the lawsuit said, that Moore’s “continue attacks” would go on in the future.

In the summary judgement brief, Moore's attorney argued that the phrase "false and malicious attacks" is not defamatory because Moore was responding in that affidavit not only to the election results but also the ads from the pro-Jones PAC Highway 31 – which ran false ads, Moore said, based on the accusations by Corfman and other women.

“Mr. Moore and his Senate campaign have already filed motions raising the same issues and making the same arguments, including to the Alabama Supreme Court," Corfman attorney Neil Roman said in an email to AL.com. "No court has accepted their arguments.”

Moore filed a motion to dismiss the lawsuit last year that was denied.