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Blake Lively Joins Ryan Reynolds, NYT In Wanting Justin Baldoni’s $400M Suit Kicked To The Curb, With A California Twist
Two days after Ryan Reynolds filed to get out of Justin Baldoni's $400M lawsuit, Blake Lively has made the same move with some California dreamin'
With a strong recommendation that Justin Baldoni and his team catch up on California law, Blake Lively wants the latest version of her It Ends With Us co-stars $400 million defamation and extortion against her, Ryan Reynolds, the New York Times, publicist Leslie Sloane and Vision PR tossed to the legal curb. “Nothing in the FAC resembles an actionable legal claim,” the memo from Lively’s the Willkie Farr & Gallagher LLP and Manatt, Phelps & Phillips lawyers says of the January 31 amended complaint from Baldoni, his Wayfarer Studios and executives, plus PR team Melissa Nathan and Jennifer Abel. “This meritless and retaliatory lawsuit runs head first into three legal obstacles, including the litigation, fair report, and sexual harassment privileges, the latter of which contains a mandatory fee shifting provision that will require the likes of billionaire Steve Sarowitz, Wayfarer Studios, and others that brought frivolous defamation claims against Ms. Lively to pay damages.
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