Al Franken 1, Faux News 0

Goodbye frivolous lawsuit:

A federal judge on Friday denied Fox News Channel's request for an injunction to block humorist Al Franken's new book, which uses the Fox slogan "fair and balanced."

U.S. District Judge Denny Chin said Fox's claim was "without merit, both factually and legally."

Well duh.

Via Oliver Willis.

Update: Bob Harris has a pretty good post on Fox's reaction to this.

Second Update: From the AP story:

The book went on sale nationally Thursday, moved up from its September rollout date because of publicity from the lawsuit. The publisher added 50,000 copies to the original run of 270,000 after the suit was filed.

So, uh, take that Al Franken.