A state appeals court has thrown out a defamation suit leveled by a former Gawker editor against The Daily Beast, ruling that under the ”gross irresponsibility” standard for matters of “public concern,” the editor’s suit alleging she was falsely portrayed as racist and transphobic in an article had failed to state a claim.

The Appellate Division, First Department court indicated that the defamation bar was set high under New York state law for “matters of legitimate public concern.” And it explained that Megan Carson Griffith, the former high-ranking Gawker editor and plaintiff in the suit, hadn’t cleared the bar in a complaint that contends The Daily Beast’s article about her “destroyed” her career and made her “essentially unemployable.”