In Hustler Magazine, Inc., v. Fallwell, the Supreme Court of the United States upheld First Amendment protections for parody.

In Hustler, Hustler Magazine published a fake ad featuring a fake interview with fundamentalist preacher Jerry Fallwell. The fake interview included sexual statements. Hustler included a statement that the ad was fake and that the interview was parody. Fallwell sued. A majority of the court agreed that the First Amendment protected the magazine’s right to publish the parody, even if the fake ad and its contents were both egregious and offensive.

Read the decision from the FindLaw Case Law Resources.