A jury awarded Paltrow $1 — a symbolic quantity she requested for so as to present it wasn’t about cash — and delivered her the vindication she sought when she opted to take it to trial reasonably than settle out of court docket.

“I felt that acquiescing to a false declare compromised my integrity,” Paltrow stated in an announcement launched by her representatives that she additionally posted as an Instagram story for her 8.3 million followers. She additionally thanked the decide and jury for his or her work.

As Paltrow left court docket she touched Terry Sanderson’s shoulder and instructed him, “I want you properly,” he instructed reporters exterior court docket. He responded, “Thanks pricey.”

Paltrow’s lawyer, Steve Owens, added in an announcement he learn exterior court docket that “Gwyneth has a historical past of advocating for what she believes in – this example was no completely different and she is going to proceed to face up for what is true.”

Paltrow, an actor who lately has refashioned herself into a celeb wellness entrepreneur, seemed to her attorneys with a pursed lips smile when the decide learn the eight-member jury’s verdict within the Park Metropolis courtroom. She sat intently by two weeks of testimony in what turned the most important celeb court docket case since actors Johnny Depp and Amber Heard confronted off final 12 months.

After the decision was learn, the decide polled the jury, which was unanimous on the choice. In civil court docket in Utah, solely three-fourths of jurors have to agree on a verdict. The lawyer charges Paltrow requested for in her countersuit weren’t included within the jury’s verdict, leaving the majority of the ultimate award for the Park Metropolis decide to determine.

Addressing reporters after the decision, Sanderson questioned whether or not the lawsuit was price it and stated he believed that individuals are inclined to naturally belief celebrities like Paltrow.

“You get some assumed credibility from being a well-known particular person,” Sanderson stated. “Actually, who needs to tackle a celeb?”

The dismissal concludes two weeks of courtroom proceedings that hinged largely on repute reasonably than the financial damages at stake within the case. Paltrow’s attorneys described the criticism in opposition to her as “utter B.S.” and painted the Goop founder-CEO as uniquely susceptible to unfair, frivolous lawsuits as a result of her celeb.

Paltrow took the witness stand in the course of the trial to insist that the collision wasn’t her fault, and to explain how she was shocked when she felt “a physique urgent in opposition to me and a really unusual grunting noise.”

All through the trial, the phrase “uphill” turned synonymous with “responsible, ” as attorneys targeted on a largely unknown snowboarding code of conduct that stipulates that the skier who’s downhill or forward on the slope has the appropriate of method.

Worldwide audiences adopted the celeb trial as if it had been episodic tv. Viewers scrutinized each Paltrow and Sanderson’s motives whereas attorneys directed inquiries to witnesses that usually had much less to do with the collision and extra to do with their consumer’s reputations.

The trial befell in Park Metropolis, a resort city identified for internet hosting the annual Sundance Movie Competition, the place early in her profession Paltrow would seem for the premieres of her films together with 1998’s “Sliding Doorways,” at a time when she was identified primarily as an actor, not a life-style influencer. Paltrow can be identified for her roles in “Shakespeare in Love” and the “Iron Man” films.

The jury’s determination marks a painful court docket defeat for Sanderson, the person who sued Paltrow for greater than $300,000 over accidents he sustained once they crashed on the ski slope at Deer Valley Resort.

“He by no means returned house that evening as the identical man. Terry has tried to get off that mountain however he’s actually nonetheless there,” lawyer Robert Sykes stated throughout closing arguments.

Each events blamed the opposite for the collision. Sanderson, 76, broke 4 ribs and sustained a concussion after the 2 tumbled down the slope, with Paltrow touchdown on high of him.

He filed an amended criticism after an earlier $3.1 million lawsuit was dismissed. In response, Paltrow countersued for $1 and lawyer charges, a symbolic motion that mirrors Taylor Swift’s response to a radio host’s defamation lawsuit. Swift was awarded $1 in 2017.

Paltrow’s protection group represented Sanderson as an indignant, ageing and unsympathetic man who had through the years turn into “obsessed” together with his lawsuit in opposition to Paltrow. They argued that Paltrow wasn’t at fault within the crash and likewise stated, no matter blame, that Sanderson was overstating the extent of his accidents.