Yes, the defendants filed a Motion To Dismiss (MTD) early December, exactly two months after we filed the lawsuit. Our lawyer then filed a response (called a Memorandum in Opposition to the MTD) a week later, picking apart their argument piece by piece very nicely (it seemed to me the defense just copy/pasted standard paragraphs with little coherence in their MTD). There is a hearing set beginning of February for the judge to either approve the MTD or reject the MTD and require the defendants to adjudicate our visa.