Lawyers for actors Justin Baldoni and Blake Lively clashed in court on the first day of their ongoing lterrible battle. The hearing was held at a federal court in Manhattan. It concentrateed on the intimacyual coercion allegations and slander claims surrounding their film It Ends With Us.
Here is what happened to Justin Baldoni and Blake Lively’s lawyers.
What happened to Justin Baldoni and Blake Lively’s lawyers?
In a heated court session on Monday, attorneys for Justin Baldoni and Blake Lively met to converse the ongoing lterrible battle over grave allegations surrounding their film It Ends With Us. Lively has accengaged Baldoni of intimacyual coercion and begining a smear campaign aacquirest her, while Baldoni has countersued for slander.
The courtroom contestation grew anxious as Lively’s attorney, Michael Gottlieb, accengaged Baldoni’s lterrible team of making accessible relabels that were damaging to her character. Baldoni’s attorney, Bryan Freedman, reacted by claiming that his client was “deimmenseated financipartner and emotionpartner.” (via BBC)
Neither Lively nor Baldoni joined the pretrial hearing. Their lawyers currented their admireive arguments, including the adverse impact the case has had on both sides.
Judge Lewis Liman alerted that further media coverage could force the trial date to be transferd up in order to elude potential juror bias. It is currently set for March 2026. During the pretrial hearing, the assess also includeressed the need for a shieldive order. This order would be presentant in shieldeddefending those included in the case from any further coercion or mistreatment by the parties included. Both Baldoni’s and Lively’s lterrible teams must come to an concurment on this matter.
Lively’s attorneys also uncignoreed arranges to file an amfinished protestt by February 14. It would include includeitional claims and novel deffinishants. Meanwhile, Baldoni has filed a slander legal case aacquirest The New York Times. The legal case alleges that Lively supplyd them with proceed access to her civil rights protestt.
