A judge has handed Alice Glass (real name: Margaret Osborn) another pair of courtroom victories in an ongoing dispute with her former Crystal Castles bandmate Ethan Kath (real name: Claudio Palmieri). At a hearing on Wednesday, Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Samantha Jessner denied a motion from Kath’s lawyers seeking to vacate the dismissal earlier this year of his defamation lawsuit against Glass. In addition, Jessner awarded Glass a total of $20,882.69 in attorney fees and costs.

The rulings are the latest development in a legal battle stemming from a statement posted on Glass’s website last October that accused Kath of sexually and physically abusing her. Kath has denied the accusations in their entirety throughout. In November, he sued Glass for damages, asserting claims of defamation, breach of contract, and conspiracy. In response, Glass filed a December 2017 motion to strike the complaint under California’s “anti-strategic lawsuit against public participation” (SLAPP) statute, which aims to curb “lawsuits brought primarily to chill the valid exercise of the constitutional rights of freedom of speech and petition for the redress of grievances.”

The judge ruled in Glass’s favor in February, finding that Kath had “failed to provide any admissible evidence” opposing the motion, and dismissed the entire lawsuit under the anti-SLAPP statute. Then Kath changed lawyers and filed a motion arguing that the dismissal should be vacated because it “was entirely the result of mistakes, inadvertence, neglect, and misconduct” by Kath’s prior lawyer. This motion is what the judge denied on Wednesday.

In a four-page court order that was obtained by Pitchfork, Jessner ruled against Kath, finding that a dismissal doesn’t have to be vacated in cases where “a party has the opportunity to file an opposition to a motion, but fails to do so effectively,” or where “a party’s attorney makes mistakes of well-established law.” She held that both of those situations applied in Kath’s case. At no point during the entire process did the judge rule on the substance of Kath’s original allegations, such as whether Glass defamed him.

A lawyer for Kath told Pitchfork he plans to appeal. “As a matter of record, Ethan Kath vehemently denies the allegations of sexual, physical, and emotional abuse leveled at him by Alice Glass, which he contends were made both maliciously and for the purpose of publicity,” the lawyer said in an email.

A lawyer for Glass told Pitchfork in an email, “The case is over.”