A federal appeals court gave the green light for a lawsuit to proceed against two Miami-Dade police officers who shot and killed two young unarmed black men after stopping them for speeding in Miami’s Little Haiti neighborhood.

Michael Knight and Frisco Blackwood died on Nov. 12, 2007, after 27 shots were fired into the rented Cadillac SUV they occupied. Latasha Cure, a passenger, was wounded and her statements are central in the case.