The trial on Blake Lively And Justin BaldoniThe bitter dispute on what really happened It ends with us And in the aftermath of the film released from Sony only begins in March of next year, but sometimes justice accelerates the pace in the battle of several million dollars slow and extended.
While the two parties presented themselves to the court file and the media on Monday to fight against the way in which his demands of intentional emotional distress lived or will not withdraw from his prosecution of the New Year against Baldoni, his studios Wayfarer, his leaders and his publicists, the judge closed everything on Tuesday.
“The request by obliging to … is rejected on the basis of the representation of the applicant according to which the relevant complaints will be withdrawn”, “,” wrote judge Lewis J, Liman this morning in a fairly fast prescription.
“The Lively request according to which” because the parties agreed to reject the tenth and eleventh causes of action of Ms. Lively … The court exercises its authority and its authority inherent under rule 15 to reject them without prejudice “is refused without prejudice to renewal”, added the federal official (and the brother of director Doug Liman). “The parties must stipulate whether the dismissal is with or without prejudice, or animated must renew its request by formal motion.”
As a botter, One day after Lively lawyers exclaim their client to completely abandon their emotional distress affirmationsJudge Liman did where he is sitting on all this perfectly clear: “To avoid doubt, if complaints are not rejected, the court will prevent any proof of emotional distress. So ordered “
After all the Hoopla of the letters of yesterday to the judge and the exchanges of weekend emails between the lawyers for Lively and Baldoni, the lawyers and the representatives for the latter were a mother on Tuesday, offering a “no comment” revealing the decision of the Liman judge in their favor. For Lively, who now does not have a window to change strategy and publish his requested medical and therapeutic files, there was an obviousness of his loss and a repetition of what his team published on Monday.
“The court rejected Wayfarer’s request,” said lawyers for Lively Esra Hudson and Mike Gottlieb in a statement on Tuesday. “He told the parties to continue their discussions on the technical details of how 2 of the 15 complaints will be voluntarily rejected. Ms. Lively proposed to reject these complaints because they are no longer necessary, and she will continue to pursue damage caused by emotional distress through other complaints in her trial, including sexual harassment and reprisals. is exactly where the two parties were before the Baldoni-Wayfarer games rushing to deposit this completely useless movement to force, all looking for another moment of the press. “”
With whispers of all not being well on the Iewu on the theme of domestic violence, even if the photo marked the billet December 20, filed his complaint for sexual harassment and reprisals Against Baldoni and its inner circle with the California civil rights department. An official prosecution by her followed on December 31 with a defamation and extension action of $ 400 million from Jane The Virgin’s actor against Lively, her husband Ryan Reynolds And their public relations team was not late.
During the months that followed, the case increased at around half a dozen prosecution, all those who try to be sent back from business and people like Taylor Swift,, Disney,, WonderTHE New York Times And others have dragged each other.
Sources on both sides have insisted on several occasions and vehemently on the deadline and the courts that there is no chance of settlement now, with the high profile and that Reynolds has left its carefully created comfort zone and the Baldoni career of WME now died in the water in Hollywood.
The trial is expected to start in New York on March 9, 2026 in the same courthouse where the SEAN “Diddy” trial will hide sex trafficking.
