After three years of legal battling, it looks like Sacha Baron Cohen has managed to get the last laugh on scandal plagued, failed, Alabama Senate candidate, Roy Moore. The former Yellowhammer state judicial official raised a $95 million defamation lawsuit against the Borat actor, after he claimed he had been hoodwinked into appearing on the third episode of Cohen's 2018 Showtime satire, Who is America?. However, a federal judge has effectively batted down the claims by Moore, which he said were "barred" for multiple reasons.

In a released opinion, Judge John P. Cronan said, "Defendants have moved for summary judgment, arguing that Plaintiffs' claims are barred by both a waiver clause in the agreement that Judge Moore signed prior to the interview and also by the First Amendment of the U.S. Constitution."

Moore's claims were that he was tricked by Cohen into going in front of the cameras, which he said led to him being sued for some pretty hefty sums. During his Senate bid in 2017, Moore became the subject of a whole host of sexual misconduct with minors claims and he claimed that the waiver clause signature was "obtained through fraud" and was "void and inoperative." The Borat and Ali-G actor used the same signed document to disagree with Moore's claims which led them to the Federal Court in New York, where the case ended bluntly for Moore today.

"The Court agrees that Judge Moore's claims are barred by the unambiguous contractual language, which precludes the very causes of action he now brings," U.S. District Court Judge Cronan wrote in the decision against Judge Moore and his co-plaintiff spouse. "Although Kayla Moore was not a signatory to that contract, her claims are barred by the First Amendment. Accordingly, Defendants' motion is granted in its entirety."

Continuing, Judge Cronan noted the overall context of Who Is America? and other segments with former VP Dick Cheney and others of similar standing, and he added that "it is simply inconceivable that the Program's audience would have found a segment with Judge Moore activating a supposed pedophile-detecting wand to be grounded in any factual basis." He then went on: "Given the satirical nature of that segment and the context in which it was presented, no reasonable viewer would have interpreted Cohen's conduct during the interview as asserting factual statements concerning Judge Moore."

Back in April it was reported that as part of the case, Moore's lawyer was trying to say that during a Zoom call when being questioned in relation to the case, Cohen was being fed answers by someone via a phone or tablet just off screen, and he urged the Judge on the case to consider the Oscar winning actor's frequent use of trickery and fraud in his work. While Cohen's lawyer counter claimed that the star was simply looking down at his laptop to see the questions being asked and not at some hidden device, it seems like in the end, Moore's lawyers claims were nowhere near enough to give the former candidate any chance of winning.