Judge Nancy Allf made the rulings Wednesday at a hearing where Gruden was in attendance. The rulings allow the lawsuit to proceed to trial unless a settlement is reached.
“I’m going to let the process take care of itself,” Gruden told reporters after the hearing. “Go Raiders.”
Gruden, who filed suit in the Eighth Judicial District Court in Clark County, Nevada, on Nov. 12, had resigned as coach on Oct. 11 in the wake of his email scandal that included racist, anti-gay and misogynistic language.
The suit alleges that “the defendants selectively leaked Gruden’s private correspondence to the Wall Street Journal and New York Times in order to harm Gruden’s reputation and force him out of his job,” Adam Hosmer-Henner, attorney for McDonald Carano, said in a statement at the time.
