Here’s an update Ken Ward Jr. called in from federal court this morning.

U.S. District Judge Irene Berger this morning agreed that jurors can hear most of the telephone call recordings that prosecutors want to use as evidence against former Massey Energy CEO Don Blankenship.

Berger ruled to exclude only three of the nearly two dozen phone calls that U.S. Attorney Booth Goodwin’s team wants jurors to hear.

Late Thursday, Blankenship’s defense lawyers made a last ditch effort to keep the phone calls that Blankenship himself recorded out of the case.

After Berger ruled from the bench this morning on the phone calls, testimony resumed in the trial with the government calling Tyler Childress, a computer data analyst from the federal Mine Safety and Health Administration.