(CNN) The jury in the civil trial of a ski collision involving Gwyneth Paltrow is now deliberating.
The jury received the case on Thursday. The trial began on March 21st.
Terry Sanderson, a retired optometrist, sued Paltrow, an Academy Award winner and founder and CEO of Goop, over a 2016 collision at the Deer Valley Resort in Park City, Utah. Sanderson is seeking more than $300,000 in damages and testifying that Paltrow caused the collision that resulted in him suffering four broken ribs and brain damage from concussion.
Paltrow testified last week that Sanderson drove into her. She is seeking $1 in damages plus attorneys’ fees in her counterclaim.
In his closing arguments, Sanderson’s attorney, Robert Sykes, dismissed claims that Sanderson was seeking fame and attention.
That day, he said, Sanderson “never came home like that again.”
“A part of him will always be on this mountain,” he said. “We hope you’ll help bring Terry home from this mountain with a fair judgment for today.”
Paltrow’s attorney, Steve Owens, meanwhile, concluded that for Paltrow it was a matter of right and wrong and that it would be “easy” for Paltrow to “write a check and be done with it,” but said that would be ” incorrect.”
“It’s actually wrong that he hurt her and he wants money from her,” he told the jury.
He later added, “He has the right to be here today, but he has no right to be rewarded for hurting her.”
Paltrow’s attorney, James Egan, referenced the other side’s comments in his conclusion, saying, “Ms. Paltrow wants him off the mountain too, but she shouldn’t be responsible for the cost of that.”
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Paltrow told the jury the collision happened on the first day of a trip to Deer Valley that she was traveling with her two children, then-boyfriend Falchuck and his two children.
She testified that two skis came between her skis, forcing her legs apart, and that she heard a “grunting sound” as she felt a body press against her back before they both collapsed.
Paltrow said she didn’t ask about Sanderson’s condition after the clash, but claims she stayed “on the mountain long enough for him to say he’s fine” and get up.
During his testimony, Sanderson reiterated the claim that it was Paltrow who drove into her.
“I was hit so hard in my back and right on my shoulder blades and it felt like it was perfectly centered and the fists and the bars were right on the bottom of my shoulder blades, a serious, serious punch and I still got.” never hit that hard,” Sanderson testified. “All I saw was a fair amount of snow.”
Sanderson denied suggestions he sued Paltrow to take advantage of her fame and fortune.
“I was like, ‘I’m not into celebrity worship,'” Sanderson told the jury upon learning she was the other skier involved in her collision.
The jury also heard from a number of experts, Sanderson’s daughters and testimonies from ski resort employees. Testimonies from Paltrow’s two children, Apple and Moses Martin, were also read to the jury during the trial.