With plaintiffs lawyers hawk-eyeing Tesla Inc. over founder and CEO Elon Musk’s recent Twitter activity—not to mention the SEC’s reported interest in the tweets implying Musk had “go-private” financing lined up—the electric car maker got some welcome news Monday on the securities litigation front.

A federal judge in San Francisco granted a motion to dismiss filed by Tesla’s lawyers at Fenwick & West related to claims the company misled investors about its ability to meet goals of producing 5,000 of its mass-market “Model 3″ per week by the end of 2017.