The Sanderson 76-Year-Old Ski Accident and Collision at Deer Valley Resort: A High-Fidelity High-Density Trial
In an initial version of the suit, Sanderson sought $3.1 million in damages, KSL.com reported. In May 2022, Third District Judge Kent Holmberg ruled that it wasn’t a hit-and-run ski crash, according to the news outlet. The 76-year-old is now seeking $300,000 in damages.
In the court documents originally filed by Sanderson and obtained by CNN in 2019, Sanderson stated that while skiing at Deer Valley Resort, Paltrow allegedly “skied out of control … knocking him down hard, knocking him out, and causing a brain injury, and four broken ribs and other serious injuries.”
According to court documents, Sanderson is seeking $300,000 in damages after initially suing Paltrow for $3.1 million dollars.
The judge gave instructions Tuesday to the eight-person jury, which was then introduced to the court by one of the lawyers for each side.
The trial is expected to last a week. It is unclear if she will take the stand but her attorney said they would hear from people who were with her at the time of the incident.
Lawrence Buhler stated that distracted skiers cause crashes. Gwyneth knew that looking up the mountain and skiing down the mountain were dangerous.
Stephen Owens told the jury that the claims that Paltrow bolted from the mountain after ramming into him were not true.
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“You’re going to feel sorrow for [Sanderson] but that’s not why you’re here. He noted that he was here to find out if anyone did or did not crash into someone.
Meantime, the Oscar-winning actress and entrepreneur filed her own countersuit about a month after Sanderson in 2019. She blamed him for the crash in it. She described him being uphill from her and her family when he suddenly plowed into her back, delivering a “full body blow.” She was angry with him and he apologized to her.
On Wednesday morning, Paltrow’s attorney Steve Owens raised an objection to a still photographer in the courtroom transmitting a photo of her. Judge Kent Holmberg said that it was a violation of the decorum order and that still images of the proceedings should follow the mic. The camera was seized and the judge said the reporter would be removed it if happened again.
He testified that the man had stopped doing many of his activities after the collision.
In May of 2017, she first saw him and she described him to be complaining of various symptoms, including cognitive issues, fatigue, mood, and personality changes.
During cross examination Paltrow’s attorney James Egan questioned Fong as to whether it was possible that Sanderson’s symptoms could have been due to something other than the crash.
When he was a little girl, he wouldn’t know what I had to say about him, but he had to take himself to a remote corner
“I think people would describe him as fun loving, very gregarious, definitely an extrovert,” she said. He enjoyed the outdoors and people.
Sanderson Grasham testified that her father seemed to have changed in his processing speed a year and a-half after the crash.
She said that he wasn’t engaged with anyone. “He had kind of taken himself to a remote corner. That was my first real slap in the face of there’s something terribly wrong.”