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Blake Lively’s Lawyers Move to Penalize Justin Baldoni’s Team After Taylor Swift Extortion Claim

Blake Lively's lawyers filed a motion seeking sanctions against Justin Baldoni's team, accusing his collaborators of making "frivolous claims."

Her attorneys also pointed out that Freedman previously “filed two letters and an affidavit so inflammatory and improper that they were stricken from the record,” further accusing Baldoni’s lawyer of “repeatedly used the press to target Ms. Lively.” The motion referred to Freedman’s claim last week that the actress’ legal team had attempted to extort a public statement out of Taylor Swift amid the ongoing legal battle between Lively and Baldoni. In a statement to Rolling Stone, Lively’s attorneys Esra Hudson and Mike Gottlieb said, “If you want to know why Justin Baldoni’s lawyer pulled his latest inflammatory and defamatory media stunt, it might be because he knew that both he and his clients were about to be hit with sanctions motions based on his reckless decision to file multiple frivolous claims in federal court.” The lawyers added: “You can’t file lawsuits in federal court that have no basis in law or fact to create a harassing media narrative, or in other words, their strategy from day one.

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