Despite a Los Angeles judge today dismissing the final claims in the two-year-old sexual battery and retaliation against Vin Diesel from a former assistant to the Fast & Furious star, this may not be the finish line in the matter.

“The Court did not decide anything about the truth of Ms. Asta Jonasson’s allegations,” attorney Matthew Hale told Deadline after the ruling came down Wednesday. “The ruling was based on a legal technicality, with which we respectfully disagree. Ms. Jonasson intends to appeal.”

In fact, while “technicality” might be a stretch, the merits of Jonasson’s allegations about what did or did not occur late one 2010 night at Atlanta’s St. Regis Hotel were not addressed at all in LA County Superior Court Judge Daniel M. Crowley’s long summary judgment ruling this

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