Sacha Baron Cohen has defeated an appeal brought by a former judge who had accused him of defamation.
Roy Moore had said that he was falsely portrayed as a paedophile by comedian Baron Cohen on his show Who Is America?.
A lower court judge had said the interview was "clearly comedy and no reasonable viewer would conclude otherwise".
And on Thursday, the 2nd US Circuit Court of Appeals backed that ruling, voting by a margin of 3-0 that the interview was constitutionally-protected speech.
Mr Moore had signed a standard consent agreement before his interview with Baron Cohen and the court said that this waived his right to pursue the $95m (£79m) law...
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