Justin Baldoni has faced a major defeat after his recess against Hollywood’s power couple, Blake Lively and Ryan Reynolds, was dismissed by the judge.
According to the latest reports, the actor’s trial against the couple, their publicist along with trial against New York Times, has been dropped by Judge Lewis J. Liman.
Sore People Magazine, The judge decided to throw the $ 400 million trial that had claimed that lively and Reynolds were trying to blackmail him and hurt his reputation.
The judge also rejected Baldoni’s $ 250 million defamation case against New York Times.
But the judge said Baldoni’s attorneys can make changes and archive the parts of the case again that, about violation of implied covenant and torture interference until June 23.
“The Wayfarer parties have not claimed that Lively is responsible for statements other than the statements in her CRD complaint, which is privileged,” the judge wrote.
The statement continued, “Wayfarer -Parties have claimed that Reynolds and [publicist Leslie] Sloane made further statements that accused Baldoni of sexual mismatch and that times gave up additional statements that accused the wayfares of the parties of participating in a smear campaign.
“But the Wayfarer parties have not claimed that Reynolds, Sloane or The Times would have seriously doubted that these statements were correctly based on the available information they are required for them to be responsible for defamation under current law.”
“Wayfarer -Parties’ further claims also fail. According to this, the changed complaint must be rejected in its entirety.”
Last year in December, Lively defended her It ends with us Costar claims sexual harassment and retaliation.
By denying the allegations, he filed the recess and accused Lively and Reynolds of extortion and defamation.
