Seven months after winning a $1.75 million jury award, a woman who claimed she repressed her memories of being abused as a child by her father has dropped her sexual assault case against him.

Court records show the anonymous plaintiff filed a motion to vacate the judgment and verdict which a Nebraska judge granted Dec. 14. “It is further ordered that the [case] is hereby dismissed with prejudice, with each party to bear its own costs,” U.S. District Judge Richard G. Kopf said.

Asked if the case had been settled, plaintiff's counsel Herb Friedman replied, “There is a non-disclosure clause and I cannot discuss the matter.”

A jury in May found Gordon Vella, a former Baptist pastor, liable for assaulting his daughter while he worked at two churches in Lincoln, Neb. The statute of limitations, the jury said, did not bar the plaintiff's claims for sexual assault and emotional distress because she suffered from a “mental disorder” that prevented her from remembering her abuse until she was 29.

Vella, who has denied the allegations, had filed a motion seeking to overturn the verdict in which he argued that the plaintiff's repressed memory expert, a Harvard professor, made “numerous misrepresentations” in trial testimony. That motion was pending when the case was dismissed.