A court denied a motion to halt the Viacom buyout.

Viacom International announced that the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York denied the motion by Carsey-Werner Co., the producers of “The Cosby Show,” for, among other things, a temporary injunction to prevent the proposed merger of Viacom with a subsidiary of National Amusements. Viacom is a diversified communications and entertainment company with headquarters in New York.