Former Superior Court Judge Carlia Brady is on firmer ground in her malicious prosecution suit against Woodbridge after a federal judge agreed to reinstate three previously dismissed counts.

U.S. District Judge Susan Wigenton rolled back an April ruling dismissing counts under federal and state civil rights laws. The ruling came after Brady asserted in a motion for reconsideration that such claims are not time-barred if they stem from a timely filed malicious prosecution claim. Wigenton’s decision, issued Wednesday, corrects her earlier holding that the statute of limitations on those counts had run because they stem from Brady’s arrest by the Woodbridge police in 2013.