A federal judge Monday threw out a couple’s lawsuit claiming the posh Ritz-Carlton in Half Moon Bay was responsible for serving them water contaminated with semen.

Judge Araceli Martínez-Olguin in Oakland U.S. District Court cited a “remarkable lack of evidence” that the coastside hotel bore responsibility for semen in a water bottle delivered to the couple from the state of Washington, identified only as Jane and John Doe.

The pair, married for 25 years, sued The Ritz-Carlton hotel chain in 2023, claiming that during a four-day trip celebrating the wife’s birthday, a “criminal deviant” employee ejaculated into a water bottle bearing the Ritz’s logo and brought it to their room. The wife woke up in the night, drank from the bottle, and concluded the water tasted like semen, the lawsuit alleged.

At the time the lawsuit was filed, it had not been confirmed that the bottle was contaminated, but the hotel company in a later court filing said testing showed it had contained semen.

The lawsuit accused The Ritz-Carlton — where rooms started at around $800 a night at the time — of sexual battery and negligence. The couple were seeking unspecified damages.

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In a court filing earlier this year, the Ritz noted that testing confirmed the bottle did contain semen, but a sample voluntarily submitted by the accused worker proved “that the semen in the subject water bottle did not belong to the individual who delivered the bottle.”

There was “no evidence that the semen in the subject water bottle belonged to any employee of the Ritz-Carlton,” the filing added.

Judge Martínez-Olguin in her Monday order granting the hotel’s request to toss the lawsuit wrote that the couple had presented “no evidence whatsoever that the water bottle was contaminated on Ritz-Carlton property.”