{"id":79044,"date":"2025-06-11T04:05:04","date_gmt":"2025-06-11T08:05:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/usa\/?p=79044"},"modified":"2025-07-01T04:06:29","modified_gmt":"2025-07-01T08:06:29","slug":"justin-baldonis-usd-400-million-countersuit-against-blake-lively-has-been-dismissed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/usa\/justin-baldonis-usd-400-million-countersuit-against-blake-lively-has-been-dismissed\/79044\/","title":{"rendered":"Justin Baldoni\u2019s USD 400 million countersuit against Blake Lively has been dismissed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Justin Baldoni\u2019s legal battle with Blake Lively and Ryan Reynolds has taken a heated turn following the court\u2019s dismissal of his $400 million countersuit, but according to his attorney, the fight is far from over. On June 10, Baldoni\u2019s lawyer Bryan Freedman appeared on <em>TMZ Live<\/em> and expressed frustration over the decision, emphasizing that both he and Baldoni view the ruling as unfair and unjust. Freedman insisted Baldoni remains committed to clearing his name, expressing that the actor and filmmaker is waiting for his opportunity to tell the truth in a courtroom setting, where, in his words, \u201che can speak out.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>While Judge Lewis J. Liman dismissed both Baldoni\u2019s countersuit and his $250 million libel suit against <em>The New York Times<\/em>, the ruling left the door open for amended claims\u2014something Baldoni\u2019s team may pursue by the June 23 deadline. Freedman made it clear this legal chapter isn\u2019t closed, especially with plans underway to move forward with Blake Lively\u2019s deposition later this month. He reiterated that Baldoni will show there was neither sexual harassment nor a calculated smear campaign, countering the narrative Lively\u2019s team has publicly embraced.<\/p>\n<p>Blake Lively\u2019s camp, however, responded with unwavering confidence in the court\u2019s ruling. Her attorney Mike Gottlieb characterized the decision as a firm statement that retaliatory litigation will not be tolerated. Alongside co-counsel Esra Hudson, Gottlieb issued a statement hailing the judge\u2019s decision as a complete and total vindication for Lively. The actress herself echoed that tone on Instagram, labeling the suit as \u201cabusive\u201d and proclaiming that it had been \u201cdefeated.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Freedman, for his part, dismissed those claims as premature and inaccurate, arguing that nothing substantive had changed regarding the underlying accusations. He further accused Lively\u2019s team of misleading the public about the outcome, emphasizing that the real reckoning would come with her upcoming deposition.<\/p>\n<p>Lively\u2019s lawyers fired back once more, doubling down with a June 10 statement accusing Baldoni\u2019s legal team of spinning the reality of their courtroom failure. They described the dismissed countersuit as an \u201cembarrassing\u201d attempt to overwhelm and silence Lively and her family, and claimed that no amount of legal maneuvering would reverse what they see as a decisive victory.<\/p>\n<p>As both sides dig in, the conflict shows no signs of resolution. Instead, it\u2019s evolving into a public and deeply personal war of credibility, where each new legal development adds fuel to an already volatile narrative.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Justin Baldoni\u2019s legal battle with Blake Lively and Ryan Reynolds has taken a heated turn following the court\u2019s dismissal of\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":294,"featured_media":79045,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[67],"tags":[24941],"class_list":["post-79044","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-celebrity-news","tag-justin-baldoni"],"reading_time":"3 min read","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/usa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79044","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/usa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/usa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/usa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/294"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/usa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=79044"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/usa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79044\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/usa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/79045"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/usa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=79044"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/usa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=79044"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/usa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=79044"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}