
Donald Trump's £370 million ($475 million) defamation lawsuit against CNN, built around the phrase 'Big Lie,' has been extinguished by a federal appeals court after not a single judge on the full bench agreed to reopen it.
On 17 March 2026, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit issued a one-paragraph per curiam order denying Trump's petition for a rehearing en banc, a request for the full court to reconsider a panel ruling handed down the previous November.