Former Alabama Chief Justice Roy Moore and his wife Kayla have filed another lawsuit related to his unsuccessful U.S. Senate campaign last year.

The suit, filed today in Etowah County Circuit Court, lists several people and political action committees the Moores say ran or contributed to misleading and defamatory commercials related to allegations of sexual misconduct against Moore going back almost 40 years.

Moore is already involved in lawsuits in Montgomery and Etowah counties relating to allegations of sexual abuse made against him about a month before the election.

Moore has repeatedly denied all accusations. Moore lost to Democrat Doug Jones in December.

The defendants named in the lawsuit included four men who worked with Longleaf Strategies of Montgomery, Highway 31 Super Pac and Bully Pulpit Interactive, Waterfront Strategies and Priorities USA, Washington, D.C.-based entities the suit says worked with Highway 31.

Josh Schwerin, communications director for Priorities USA and one of the men named in the suit, said, "We expect the courts to quickly dismiss this frivolous lawsuit and remain grateful to the people of Alabama for rejecting Roy Moore's failed bid to join the United States Senate."

The suit lays out what it says were television, radio, digital and mail ads which made allegations the Moores say led to his defeat in the special Senate election last Dec. 12.

"These advertisements included false content, which a reasonably prudent person knew or should have known to be false and the advertisements were so published with a reckless disregard as to their falsity," the suit states.

Senate Majority PAC was the primary backer of Highway 31, which spent $6 million on the campaign against Moore. Because of reporting and payment schedules, Highway 31 didn't disclose its donors during the campaign despite its heavy spending.

A portion of the suit deals with television commercials that stated Moore had been banned from the Gadsden Mall since the 1970s, an ad Moore's campaign last year called "patently false." Another ad referenced in the suit was eventually removed from YouTube. It suggested that a record of how citizens voted in the Senate election would be kept on file.

In one part of the suit, a former employee of a cafeteria at the Gadsden Mall claims an unnamed "prominent man of Etowah County, who is now deceased...was banned for reasons such as the allegation against Judge Moore." He says Moore was never banned.

An attorney for Moore, Melissa Isaak, said during an afternoon news conference in Gadsden that Moore's reputation was "smeared beyond belief."

"This was a political hit job, no question about it," she said.

Moore did not comment during the news conference on the lawsuit, or respond to questions about his interaction with comic actor Sacha Baron Cohen. Moore earlier this month said he was duped by the actor in his upcoming Showtime series, "Who Is America?"

Roy Moore press conference in Gadsden. Posted by al.com on Wednesday, July 25, 2018

It's the latest legal action related to the campaign. Moore himself has been sued by Leigh Corfman in Montgomery County. Corfman leveled the most serious charge against Moore, saying that he touched her inappropriately when she was 14 years old and he was a 32-year-old assistant district attorney in Gadsden.

Moore has filed a counter lawsuit against Corfman in that case.

At Moore's April press conference, he discussed filing a "political conspiracy" lawsuit in Etowah County against Corfman and four other defendants relating to the accusations.

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