Justin Baldoni has faced a great defeat after the judge dismissed his hiring against Hollywood’s power couple, Blake Lively and Ryan Reynolds.
According to the latest reports, the demand of the actor against the couple, his publicist, together with the lawsuit against The New York Times, It has been retired by Judge Lewis J. Liman.
By People magazine, The judge decided to throw the demand of $ 400 million who had claimed that Lively and Reynolds tried to blackmail him and harm his reputation.
The judge also dismissed the defamation case of $ 250 million from Baldoni against The New York Times.
But the judge said that Baldoni’s lawyers can make changes and present the parts of the case again, which with respect to the breach of the implicit pact and tortuous interference until June 23.
“Wayfarer’s parties have not claimed that Lively is responsible for any statement other than the statements in their CRD complaint, which are privileged,” the judge wrote.
The statement continued: “Wayfarer parts have claimed that Reynolds and [publicist Leslie] Sloane made additional statements accusing Baldoni of inappropriate sexual behavior and that the Times made additional statements accusing Wayfarer parties to participate in a smear campaign.
“But Wayfarer’s parties have not claimed that Reynolds, Sloane or The Times would have seriously doubted that these statements were true based on the information available to them, as required to be responsible for defamation according to the applicable law.”
“The additional claims of the parties also fail. Consequently, the amended complaint must be dismissed in its entirety.”
Last year in December, Lively demanded her It ends with us Costa alleging sexual harassment and reprisals.
When denying the accusations, the accountant presented and accused Lively and Reynolds of extortion and defamation.
