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Judge dismisses Miley Cyrus 'racist' photo case

, Prev Next Miley Cyrus has come out unscathed after a legal battle over a controversial photograph released earlier this year.

LA resident Lucie Kim launched a $4 billion lawsuit against the star for her involvement in the offending photo, which shows the teenager and her friends making slant-eyed faces at a party.

Kim sued Miley on behalf of the Asian community of LA, claiming “emotional distress”.

On Friday, Superior Court Judge Robert Hess dismissed the case, saying that although the image was offensive, it didn’t break any laws.

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Who cares?Freedom of expression! There is alot of NEO LIBERAL NAZI mentally ill people out there.Let it go!!!Get a life.
why cant miley cyrus act her own age, she's clearly being racist and this is inflecing her fans , and she has fans of young ages to , =[
oi theres an asian dude in the picture!! ***? if hes in on the joke it aint racist, hes trying to make big googly eyes like mine so what..i should report him?? god this world is so friggin politicly correct these days..move on peeps
What she did was inexcusable. She's supposed to be a role model and all this picture taught me is we are allowed to mock the way other people look and shrug it off because it was a "goofy face". The kids defending her have proven the point. "that is so good it got dismissed i mean honestly, shes a teenager that did a funny, silly thing." thanks, so I guess Asians look silly, huh? This is a personal attack against Asians. It doesn't matter if she didn't mean to offend people, the fact is she did offend.
This is really offensive, I'm asian, and no-one would ever do that to my face or any of my other asian friends. None of my other friends would do that either and we are all teenagers. The problem with her is, she is dismissed for so many things that normal people aren't just because she's famous. The truth is, that is extremely racist, no wonder america is heading downhill.....
Gettin a little sick of this tart. shes getting a bit *** lately for her age. Dances involving poles and sht *** lol..She needs a reminder she's still a kid. Even tho I'm a bit old to be worried about these people, Selena Gomez n Demi Lovato seem to have a bit more class and she mocks them? Lol. Kids these days.
People are so stupid and uptight. We all seem to obsessed with Miley's life, hounding her, and if she does one little thing that can be regarded as at all un-PC, there's hell to pay. This kim b*** was obviously just trying to make some money miley's photo. They're just a group of friends having fun, kids do that, its not the public's job to parent and discipline celebrity children. I find it utterly pathetic, and I'm tired of reading about cr*p like this, or hearing about it from other people. Leave Miley alone. She's just a teenager out to find herself, like the rest of us. People make mistakes, who are you to judge? F***ing losers. And I'm not even a fan of Miley's. This would only happen in America, they're a nation of extremist paranoid hypocrites. (Racism, or merely a reaction to what I've seen of their country?) Think about that.
Not nice at all.
A. That doesn't even look like Miley Cyrus at all. Look at the lips B. If the asian friend in the photo isn't offended why shouldn't anyone else be. c. Maybe the point of the photo was to play on the whole he's the only asian yet his eyes are quite oval. Or we are more asian than you are. Either was it was in jest with a friend and was probably a personal joke. No reason to get offended and sure as hell no reason to get into trouble. And Riri teeneagers do things like this all the time. Pulling silly faces in a photo is no reason to get an *** kicking. This is just people trying to find another cheap way to get money outta someone famous. Its pathetic.
Racist *** rednecks.

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