The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit on Friday remanded author E. Jean Carroll’s older defamation suit against former President Donald Trump for further proceedings in the Southern District of New York after the highest local court in the District of Columbia declined to define the scope of the president’s employment.

Circuit Judges Guido Calabresi, William Nardini and Denny Chin certified the question about the scope of Trump’s employment to the D.C. Court of Appeals in September, and the D.C. court on April 13 declined to make a definitive legal ruling, explaining that the question was dependent upon specific facts of the case.