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(Reuters) - A
U.S. appeals court on Wednesday ordered Google Inc to remove from its
YouTube video-sharing website an anti-Islamic film that had sparked
protests across the Muslim world. By a 2-1 vote, a panel of the
9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals on Wednesday rejected Google's
assertion that the removal of the film "Innocence of Muslims," amounted
to a prior restraint of speech that violated the U.S. Constitution.
The plaintiff, Cindy Lee Garcia, had objected to the film after
learning that it incorporated a clip she had made for a different movie,
which had been partially dubbed and in which she appeared to...