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Judge Awards Blake Lively Attorneys Fees Following Justin Baldoni Settlement

Complex | Music, Sneakers, Pop Culture, News & Shows·tara mahadevan·3 months ago
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Blake Lively has landed a small win in her legal battle with Justin Baldoni . The New York Times reports that a federal judge has granted the actress attorneys fees in the long-running back-and-forth. The decision is an outgrowth of Baldoni and his associates’ defamation suit, where he claimed that Lively lied about experiencing sexual harassment on the set of their movie , It Ends With Us . Judge Lewis Liman found that Lively’s case followed a California law that prevents “the weaponization of defamation suits to intimidate those who make harassment complaints,” The Times writes. According to the judge, Baldoni “had provided no evidence that Ms. Lively had made her accusations with malice.” “Allegations are insufficient on their own to demonstrate that statements were in fact made with malice,” the judge penned.…

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