A New York Supreme Court judge made a preliminary ruling to deny CBS’s motion to dismiss ex-anchor Dan Rather’s $70 million lawsuit against them.

The judge, Ira Gammerman said, "I concluded there was enough in the complaint to continue with discovery (pretrial research).”

Rather’s lawyers want access to internal CBS emails, which could get uncomfortable if their office is anything like ours, where NSFW links and derogatory remarks are sent around constantly.

CBS is pretending to be happy that the judge is still (only a little bit) considering dismissing the case, and released the following statement

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