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Roy Moore files emergency application with Supreme Court on $8.2 million jury award
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Roy Moore files emergency application with Supreme Court on $8.2 million jury award
By Amy Howe
Jun 17, 2026
WASHINGTON, DC - FEBRUARY 10: The Supreme Court of the United States building, photographed on Thursday, Feb. 10, 2022 in Washington, DC.
(Kent Nishimura/Los Angeles Times via Getty Images)
Roy Moore, the former chief justice of the Alabama Supreme Court, came to the U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday, asking the justices to block a ruling by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 11th Circuit from going into effect while he appeals that decision. If the lower court’s decision is not put on hold but he ultimately prevails, Moore told the justices, he may not be able to recover the $8.2 million that the jury awarded him.
Moore was twice removed from his position as chief justice – once in 2003, when he disregarded a federal court order to remove a Ten Commandments monument that he had placed in the building where the Alabama Supreme Court sits, and again in 2016, for refusing to follow the U.S. Supreme Court’s 2015 ruling in Obergefell v. Hodges, recognizing a constitutional right to same-sex marriage. The dispute in which he is asking the justices to intervene, however, stems from his 2017 campaign for a seat in the U.S. Senate, during a special election to fill the vacancy created by the resignation of Sen. Jeff Sessions to serve as attorney general during the first Trump administration.
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Roy Moore files emergency application with Supreme Court on $8.2 million jury award
By Amy Howe
Jun 17, 2026
WASHINGTON, DC - FEBRUARY 10: The Supreme Court of the United States building, photographed on Thursday, Feb. 10, 2022 in Washington, DC.
(Kent Nishimura/Los Angeles Times via Getty Images)
Roy Moore, the former chief justice of the Alabama Supreme Court, came to the U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday, asking the justices to block a ruling by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 11th Circuit from going into effect while he appeals that decision. If the lower court’s decision is not put on hold but he ultimately prevails, Moore told the justices, he may not be able to recover the $8.2 million that the jury awarded him.
Moore was twice removed from his position as chief justice – once in 2003, when he disregarded a federal court order to remove a Ten Commandments monument that he had placed in the building where the Alabama Supreme Court sits, and again in 2016, for refusing to follow the U.S. Supreme Court’s 2015 ruling in Obergefell v. Hodges, recognizing a constitutional right to same-sex marriage. The dispute in which he is asking the justices to intervene, however, stems from his 2017 campaign for a seat in the U.S. Senate, during a special election to fill the vacancy created by the resignation of Sen. Jeff Sessions to serve as attorney general during the first Trump administration.
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