A New York appeals court has thrown out the roughly half-billion dollar judgment against President Donald Trump in the civil fraud case brought by the state’s attorney general.

Thursday’s decision, which was not unanimous, leaves Trump still liable for fraud. The judges aligned to uphold his liability and toss the penalty so the case could move forward for further appellate review.

In the prevailing opinion, the judges wrote, “While the injunctive relief ordered by the court is well crafted to curb defendants’ business culture, the court’s disgorgement order, which directs that defendants pay nearly half a billion dollars to the State of New York, is an excessive fine that violates the Eighth Amendment of the United States Constitution.”

CNN senior legal analyst Elie Honig said the “monumental” ruling was unusual due to it taking the court nearly a year to reach this decision.

“This is a huge win for Donald Trump, any way you cut it. And this is a stinging rebuke to the Attorney General Letitia James,” Honig said on CNN’s “The Situation Room.”

Former Trump lawyer Alina Habba, meanwhile, called the ruling “a resounding victory for President Trump and his company.”

“The court struck down the outrageous and unlawful $464 million penalty, confirming what we have said from the beginning: the Attorney General’s case was politically motivated, legally baseless, and grossly excessive,” Habba, who was on Trump’s legal team in the case and is now an acting US Attorney in New Jersey, said on X. “President Trump won – and justice won with him.”