Judge throws out second lawsuit from Romeo and Juliet stars over underage nude scene in 1968 movie

A Superior Court judge found no significant change in the Criterion re-release of the film to depart from 2023's first ruling.Superior Court Judge Holly J. Fujie tossed the second suit out, claiming that Criterion did not meaningfully alter the presentation of the nude scene enough to warrant a departure from the initial ruling on the case, as the plaintiffs' suit claimed.

Paramount was able to get the case dismissed in short order via an anti-SLAPP motion, a legal motion designed to dismiss suits that restrict or otherwise have a chilling effect on First Amendment-protected activities. In their second anti-SLAPP motion in response to the 2024 lawsuit, lawyers for Paramount wrote that the succesful first dismissal "should have been the end of this nonsense," and claimed that "plaintiffs’ theory that the Criterion release of the film exceeds the resolution of all prior iterations of the film is simply wrong." We have summarized this news so that you can read it quickly.



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