dismissed the suit in 2019, and the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit upheld the dismissal Wednesday.The SPLC did not act with “actual malice,” that is, knowingly spread false information, when it characterized Coral Ridge Ministries as a hate group, a unanimous three-judge panel of the Eleventh Circuit ruled.“Coral Ridge did not sufficiently plead facts that give rise to a reasonable inference that SPLC ‘actually entertained serious doubts as to the veracity’ of its hate group definition and that definition’s application to Coral Ridge, or that SPLC was ‘highly aware’ that the definition and its application was ‘probably false,’” Judge Charles Wilson wrote for the panel.The hate group designation had led Amazon to declare.