SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Gwyneth Paltrow won’t recoup the attorneys’ charges she paid to efficiently defend herself in opposition to a lawsuit from a 76-year-old retired optometrist who claimed she was at fault for crashing into him at a complicated Utah ski resort in 2016.
In a remaining judgment printed on Saturday, a Utah decide affirmed the jury’s unanimous verdict discovering Terry Sanderson — the person who collided with Paltrow — to be “100% at fault,” awarding Paltrow the $1 she sought in a countersuit, and leaving attorneys’ charges for District Courtroom Decide Kent Holmberg to determine.
The judgment stated Paltrow wouldn’t search attorneys’ charges and Sanderson wouldn’t attraction the decision, successfully ending a protracted authorized battle seven years after the 2 crashed on a newbie run close to the bottom of Deer Valley Resort in Utah.
Representatives for each Paltrow and Sanderson weren’t instantly out there to reply questions concerning the remaining judgment or the cash at stake. Neither aspect has publicly disclosed how a lot it price to maintain a yearslong authorized battle with a crew of attorneys, knowledgeable witnesses from round america and, for Paltrow’s aspect, high-resolution animated recreations of her recollections of the crash.
The “Shakespeare in Love” and “Ironman” star’s eight-day court docket battle final month emerged as essentially the most intently watched American superstar trial since actors Johnny Depp and Amber Heard confronted off final 12 months. Sanderson’s lawsuit accused Paltrow of negligence and crashing into him from behind, after which leaving the scene of the accident with out guaranteeing he was in good bodily situation. He sought greater than $300,000 in damages — a threshold in Utah civil court docket that permits events to introduce essentially the most proof and depose the longest record of witnesses.
Paltrow subsequently countersued for the symbolic $1 and attorneys’ charges — claiming Sanderson had crashed into her from behind and was suing to take advantage of her fame and superstar.
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Beneath the glare of dwell Courtroom TV cameras and in depth scrutiny from followers and detractors, Paltrow sat intently within the Park Metropolis courtroom all through the proceedings final month, at and testified that at the beginning, when the crash occurred, she thought she was being “violated.”
After the decision, Sanderson’s attorneys stated they had been weighing whether or not to attraction the case or to file for a brand new trial. Paltrow and her lawyer stated in separate statements that the countersuit extra to do together with her rules than the greenback quantity at stake.
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