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International Business Times UK
International Business Times UK
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Chelsie Napiza

Trump Loses CNN Defamation Case As Own Appointees at Conservative Appeals Court Rejects 'Big Lie' Election Coverage

Day 7 of US–Iran War: Oil prices surge as Strait of Hormuz remains blocked — while Trump shrugs, ‘If they rise, they rise.’ (Credit: Gage Skidmore/WikiMedia Commons)

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.

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