BuzzFeed scored a significant legal victory on Monday with a judge’s ruling that the online outlet appears to have legal protection for its decision to publish the so-called dossier about President Donald Trump’s alleged ties to Russia.

Ruling in a libel suit brought by a Russian internet entrepreneur named in the document, U.S. District Court Judge Ursula Ungaro, based in Miami, ruled on Monday that BuzzFeed could claim the “fair report privilege” for its brief article and the accompanying release of the dossier online in January 2017.

Lawyers for the Russian businessman, Aleksej Gubarev, said there was no indication that any U.S. government activity relating to the dossier amounted to the kind of official proceeding that journalists are permitted to report on without legal liability for the information drawn from that proceeding.

Ungaro disagreed.

“The Court agrees with Defendants that the term ‘official proceeding’ should be broadly interpreted to apply to any official action,” the judge wrote in her 22-page decision. “A confidential briefing to the President and the President-elect by the four most senior intelligence directors in the country is official action taken by those empowered to do so. So too is an FBI investigation into the truth of the Dossier’s allegations.”