CNN's Anderson Cooper failed to have a defamation lawsuit claiming he sensationalized a story about dead babies thrown out of court.

The judge argued the Florida doctor who is suing the network showed enough evidence to move forward with his legal battle on April 28.

Last year, Dr. Michael Black filed a 208-page lawsuit against CNN and network host Anderson Cooper and senior medical correspondent Elizabeth Cohen, according to documents obtained by DailyMail.com.

CNN's Anderson Cooper attempted to have a defamation lawsuit filed against him, the network and his colleagues dismissed. However, the judge ruled the plaintiff Dr. Michael Black presented enough evidence so the case could move forward

The doctor works at St. Mary's Medical Center in West Palm Beach, Florida and led a pediatric cardiac surgery program at the hospital.

Anderson Cooper 360 ran segments that focused on the program and Dr. Black, which he claimed were fictitious in his defamation suit.

The network published Black's photo and a headline that implied he treated 'babies as sacrificial lambs' and claimed he made a 'total mess with newborn babies.'

Black accused the CNN of 'reckless disregard for the truth' by miscalculating the mortality rate for the program at St. Mary's.

The report claimed the mortality rate of infants who died after heart surgery was 12.5 percent, which is three times the national average.

The doctor said the calculations by CNN were 'fundamentally flawed pseudo-statistical analysis.'

Dr. Michael Black claimed CNN ran purposefully misleading stories claiming the number of babies who died after his heart surgery program was three times the national average. He said the producers knew their calculation was incorrect but ran the story anyways

Black is still a doctor at St. Mary's Medical Center in West Palm Beach, but was hit with numerous malpractice lawsuits after the CNN segments aired in 2015

He believes CNN had a preconceived goal in reporting its story, 'to manufacture an outrageous, headline-grabbing story about an incompetent, dishonest and inexperienced doctor leading a surgical program in crisis and recklessly operating on young children to profit at the expense of those children's lives.'

Cooper aired pieces about the hospital on the network. They ran the headline 'Secret Deaths: CNN Finds High Surgical Death Rate for Children at a Florida Hospital.'

The story claimed a total of nine babies died following heart surgery under Black's program.

CNN senior medical correspondent Elizabeth Cohen (pictured), Anderson Cooper and the network demanded the lawsuit be thrown out

However, Black claimed the producers were repeatedly told that the mortality rate they calculated was misleading and the hospital's mortality rate was in line with the national average of 3.3 percent.

The CEO of the medical center allegedly told CNN the percentage they had calculated was inaccurate because it only accounted for a portion of the heart surgeries.

The defendants argued the methodology they used to reach the 12.5 percent mortality rate was their choice and all this was presented to the audience showing how they got their number.

Black described the story as nothing more than a ratings grab about babies with life threatening heart problems that purposely left out his prestigious resume along with his career accomplishments.

The lawsuit seeks damages from CNN,host Anderson Cooper, correspondent Elizabeth Cohen, producer John Bonifield and employee Dana Ford. It also lists alleged source Kelly Robinson whose child went under cardiac surgery with another doctor and survived

For example, Black was the Chief of Cardiac Surgery at Stanford’s Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital and is a Fellow of The Royal College of Surgeons of Canada in both general and cardiac surgery.

The television coverage was what reportedly led to the closure of the program. Black still is a doctor at the hospital but he was hit with numerous malpractice lawsuits by the parents of the babies featured in the segment.

Black claims he received death threats as a result of the coverage. One anonymous caller told him he would be 'butchered just like (his) patients.'

Black sued for unspecified damages for the harm to his reputation and livelihood.

Cooper – along with CNN and Elizabeth Cohen – demanded the lawsuit be thrown out of court and denied they defamed the doctor with their coverage.

The judge stated the doctor has provided enough evidence to make an argument that CNN knowingly and misleadingly presented false statistics and acted with actual malice.

DailyMail.com has contacted CNN for comment.