A Manhattan federal appeals court has revived a portion of a defamation lawsuit filed against Rolling Stone magazine and its publisher by three University of Virginia frat brothers who sued over a since-debunked account of a gang-rape at their fraternity house.

Phi Kappa Psi members George Elias IV, Stephen Hadford, and Ross Fowler were not individually named in the story, but said the article left them accused of rape and embarrassed to admit they belonged to the UVA fraternity.

The 2nd U.S. Circuit court of Appeals agreed that the three men have basis to argue they were defamed by the piece, in an order that will now allow Elias and Fowler to file similar individual suits.

The decision concludes that, due to the small size of the frat, the plaintiff’s group defamation claims were valid.

The Tuesday order otherwise upheld the lower court’s 2016 dismissal.

“A Rape on Campus,” was a 2014 article written by Sabrina Rubin Erdely, describing the fictitious gang rape of freshman “Jackie” in Sept. 2012 at the Phi Kappa Psi fraternity house.

The magazine retracted the article five months later. The news comes mere days after it was revealed that publisher Jann Wenner would be putting his majority stake in the periodical up for sale.

Rolling Stone declined to comment.