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Trial over a 2016 snowboarding accident involving Gwyneth Paltrow started on Tuesday.
The actress and businesswoman was current within the Park Metropolis, UT courtroom as a jury was seated and opening statements started within the case. Terry Sanderson, 76, has accused her of crashing into him and inflicting him severe accidents whereas they had been each snowboarding on a Utah mountain in Feb. 2016.
Within the court docket paperwork initially filed by Sanderson and obtained by CNN in 2019, Sanderson acknowledged that whereas snowboarding at Deer Valley Resort, Paltrow allegedly “skied uncontrolled … knocking him down laborious, knocking him out, and inflicting a mind damage, and 4 damaged ribs and different severe accidents.”
Sanderson additionally claims Paltrow and her ski teacher skied away after the incident with out getting him medical care.
Paltrow filed a countersuit in opposition to Sanderson, a retired optometrist, claiming that he skied into her.
In line with Paltrow’s countersuit, she “was having fun with snowboarding along with her household on trip in Utah, when Plaintiff – who was uphill from Ms. Paltrow – plowed into her again. She sustained a full ‘physique blow.’ Ms. Paltrow was offended with Plaintiff, and stated so. Plaintiff apologized. She was shaken and upset, and give up snowboarding for the day though it was nonetheless morning.”
Sanderson had initially sued Paltrow for $3.1 million {dollars}, however later amended his criticism and is now searching for $300,000 in damages, based on court docket paperwork.
Paltrow is searching for $1 in damages, plus attorneys charges.
The decide provided directions Tuesday to the jury and the attorneys for either side launched themselves to the court docket earlier than one among Sanderson’s lawyer, Lawrence Buhler, started opening statements.
The trial is predicted to final about one week. It’s not but recognized if Paltrow will take the stand.
CNN has contacted a consultant for Paltrow for remark.
