A new york judge set a March 2026 trial date on monday and moved an initial conference from mid-face-face to next week as the public feud between Blake Lively And Her It ends with us Co-Star and Director Justin Baldoni Continued to grow and accelerate.
And in a new and separefit in the series of legal battles surrounding the film that became a Surprise Hit Last Summer, Lively in a Texas Court Filed A Request for A. ENT Against Her During Its Release and promotion.
The New York Federal Judge, Lewis J. Liman, Told Both Sides in an order late Monday to prepare for a March 9, 2026, Trial.
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He Also Moved An Initial Conference from Mid-February to Next Week and Told Lawyers to Be Prepared to Address Complaints about Pretrial Publicity and Attorney Conducker.
Liman took the actions after Lively’s Lawyers Claimed in a Filing on Monday that an attorney for Baldoni was Trying to Tain Potential Jurors Over Lawsuits the ACTORS HAVESUSUTES HAVESUTES
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The Lawyers said Baldoni’s Attorney was Trying to Wreck Lively’s Career and Turn Potential New York Jurors Against Her By Creating A Website to Release Selected Documents and Communications Betwen Lively and Baldoni.
The Lawyers Said Attorney Bryan Freedman, REPRESENTING BALDONI, was “engaging in this extrajudicial campai Erous risk that his misconduct is tainting the jury pool. “
They added: “The endless stream of defamatory and extarajudicial media statements must end.”
Freedman said in a statement in response to monday’s asserts that the “Iron is not lost on any anyone that ms. lively is so petrified of the truth that she has moved to gag it.”
“We will always see the court; however, we will never be bullied by that suggesting we cannot defend our clients with pure, UNEDITED FACTS,” The Lawyer Said.
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“All we want is for people to see the actual text messages that directly contradict her allegations, video footage that clearer ICTS Any False Allegations. “
In a letter to the judge on Thursday, Baldoni Attorney Kevin Fritz Accused Lively of a Publicity Campai
He said the actions had damaged these she sued so that they were “exiled from polite society and sufered damages totaling hundreds of millions of dolles due to ms. Lively’s Scorched-earth Meedia Compiegn.”
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In the separate filing in hays count, texas, a precursor to another potential lawsuit, lively asks for an order for a deposit from jed wallace, a cris management SPECIALST SHE ALLEGE SHE ALLEGE SHE al -media manipulation surrounding the film that turned public sentiment Against her thought posts on reddit and tiktok.
Wallace and his texas-based firm street relations were brought on as subcontractors by publicists working with Baldoni and his production company, the filing said.
“He Weaponized A Digital Army Around the Country, Including in New York and Los Angeles, to Create, Seed, Manipulate, and Advance Disparaging Content That Authentic At forums, “The filing alleges.
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Wallace is identified in lively’s federal lawit, but he is not a defendant.
Freedman, who the filing says is wallace’s lawer, did not respond to a request for comment on the issue.
Lively Sued Baldoni, His Production Company and others in New York in Late December for Sexual Harassment and Attacks on her reputation and asked for Unspecified Damages.
Baldoni Sued Earlier This month, Accusing Lively and Her Husband, Deadpool Actor Ryan Reynolds, of Defamation and Extortion and seeking at least $ 400 million ($ 639,974,400) in damages.
The judge said Monday that he’ll likely combine the lawsuits for trial.
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It ends with us, An adaptation of colleen hover’s bestselling 2016 novel that begins as a romance but takes a dark turn into domestic violence, was released in August, Excinging Box Office Expectations with A $ 50 ($ 79,800) Debut.
But the movie’s release was shrouded by speech over discord between lively and Baldoni.
Lively came to fame through the 2005 film The Sisterhood of the Traveling PantsAnd bolsred her stardom on the tv series Gossip girl From 2007 to 2012. She has since starred in films including The Town and The shallows,
Baldoni starred in the tv comedy Jane the virginDirected the 2019 film Five Feet Apart And Wrote Man enoughA Book Pushing Back Against Traditional notions of Masculinity.
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