Wrestler Chris Benoit strangled his wife Nancy Benoit, also a former wrestler, and his son then hung himself at their suburban Atlanta home back in 2007. Nude photos of Nancy taken more than 20 years ago were published on Hustler Magazine after her death.

Nancy Benoit’s family filed a federal lawsuit against the Larry Flynt Publishing Group where they claimed the former model and wrestler had asked the photographer to destroy the images immediately after they were shot.

A federal appeals court ruled Thursday (June 25) that Hustler Magazine didn’t have the right to publish decades-old nude photographs. “These private, nude photographs were not incident to a newsworthy article; rather, the brief biography was incident to the photographs,” Judge Charles Wilson wrote in the opinion.