Same judge who presided over Giuliani's $148M verdict will handle his new case

A U.S. District Court issued a summons on Tuesday after former election workers Shaye Moss and Ruby Freeman filed a second defamation lawsuit against Rudy Giuliani.

In the lawsuit filed on Monday, Freeman and Moss asked the court for "injunctive relief to permanently bar Defendant Rudolph W. Giuliani ('Defendant') from persisting in his defamatory campaign."

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Giuliani, a former attorney for Donald Trump, continues to claim that the pair of women rigged the 2020 presidential election for Joe Biden.

On Tuesday, the case docket showed that the litigation had been assigned to U.S. District Court Judge Beryl Howell, who presided over a recent verdict where Giuliani was ordered to pay Freeman and Moss $148 million for defamation.

The court also issued a summons for Giuliani.