The Alabama Supreme Court on Friday affirmed lower court decisions in a defamation lawsuit filed by former state Supreme Court Chief Justice Roy Moore and counterclaims against Moore.

Moore filed a lawsuit in 2018 in Etowah County over allegations of sexual misconduct decades earlier that surfaced during Moore’s campaign for the U.S. Senate in 2017.

Moore has repeatedly denied the allegations in public statements and court documents. He claimed they were malicious and timed to undermine his candidacy, coming in the final weeks of the campaign for the December 2017 special election, which he lost to Doug Jones.

In Friday’s decisions, the state Supreme Court upheld rulings from the Etowah County Circuit Court dismissing Moore’s defamation claims against Deborah Wesson Gibson and Richard Hagedorn. The lawsuit accused Gibson and Hagedorn of promoting a conspiracy to spread false rumors.

The Supreme Court also upheld the lower court’s rulings dismissing counterclaims by Hagedorn against Moore, Moore’s Senate campaign, Janet Porter, a spokeswoman for the campaign, and Herring Networks Inc.

The Supreme Court did not issue written opinions. Five of the nine justices recused themselves, so several judges from other appeals courts took part in the decisions, which were without dissent.

“The court dismissed all Hagedorn’s claims against me, and dismissed them (Hagedorn and Wesson) as parties to this suit that was originally brought as a conspiracy of the 2017 Senate election,” Moore said.

“Neither of them claimed I did anything to them,” Moore said. “I accused them of conspiracy.”

Moore has defamation cases still pending against two women who made accusations against him in November 2017, Beverly Young Nelson and Tina Turner Johnson. Moore said he expects those cases to proceed in Etowah County Circuit Court now that the others are dismissed.

Nelson accused Moore of attacking her in 1977 when she was 16. Moore said he didn’t know Nelson and the claim was “absolutely false.”

Wendy Brooks Crew, an attorney for Nelson, said there has been a lull in the case while the others were on appeal.

“We look forward to the same results (dismissal) for our client,” Crew said in an email.

Johnson accused Moore of grabbing her buttocks in 1991 when she and her mother came to his law office. Moore’s lawsuit says the claim was “false and malicious.”

In 2022, a Montgomery County jury heard the defamation case of Moore accuser Leigh Corfman against Moore and Moore’s countersuit against Corfman.

Corfman claimed Moore sexually abused her in 1979 when she was 14 and he was an assistant prosecutor in Etowah County. The jury ruled that Corfman did not defame Moore with her allegation and that Moore did not defame Corfman with his public denials.

Corfman’s claim, the first accusation against Moore, was published in the Washington Post in November 2017.