https://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-65725714
A Los Angeles judge says she will dismiss a child sex abuse lawsuit brought by the stars of the 1968 film Romeo and Juliet.
Olivia Hussey and Leonard Whiting alleged the film's director coerced them into filming nude while underage.
A Superior Court judge found the scene wasn't "sufficiently sexually suggestive" to overrule First Amendment protections.
Hussey was 15 at the time of filming and Whiting 16.
In a tentative ruling issued on Thursday, Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Alison Mackenzie said the plaintiffs "cherry picked" which statutes applied to their case. She also said the lawsuit did not meet the requirements for suspending the statute of limitations for child sexual abuse.
Attorney Solomon Gresen, who represented both Ms Hussey and Mr Whiting in the case, told BBC News he felt the ruling was on "the wrong side of this issue."
"There's no First Amendment protection of nude children simulating sexual congress," Mr Gresen said.
He said his clients are considering an appeal and he intends to file a separate lawsuit in federal court.
In a joint statement, Ms Hussey and Mr Whiting, now both in their 70s, said they would continue to fight.
"We waited going on 55 years for justice. I guess we'll have to wait longer," they said.