Blake Full of life’s authorized battle in opposition to Justin Baldoni is transferring ahead.
Based on courtroom paperwork obtained by People on Monday, July 7, Full of life, 37, is scheduled to have her deposition on July 17.
Us Weekly has reached out to Full of life and Baldoni for remark.
Full of life and Baldoni’s authorized drama started in December 2024, when the actress accused her It Ends With Us costar and director, 41, of sexual harassment, making a hostile work setting and purposefully making a smear marketing campaign in opposition to her.
Justin Baldoni isn’t backing down from his authorized battle with It Ends With Us costar Blake Full of life after his lawsuit in opposition to her and her husband, Ryan Reynolds, was dismissed. “Ms. Full of life and her group’s predictable declaration of victory is fake, so allow us to be clear concerning the newest ruling,” Baldoni’s lawyer Bryan Freedman advised Us […]
Baldoni vehemently denied the allegations and countersued Full of life, her husband Ryan Reynolds and her publicist Leslie Sloane three months later. Within the $400 million lawsuit, Baldoni accused the group of civil extortion and defamation. In June, Choose Lewis J. Liman dismissed Baldoni’s lawsuit in opposition to Full of life, Reynolds and Sloane, who all denied the allegations.
“Right this moment’s opinion is a complete victory and a whole vindication for Blake Full of life, together with those who Justin Baldoni and the Wayfarer Events dragged into their retaliatory lawsuit, together with Ryan Reynolds, Leslie Sloane and The New York Instances,” Full of life’s legal professionals mentioned in a press release to Us. “As we’ve got mentioned from day one, this ‘$400 million’ lawsuit was a sham, and the Courtroom noticed proper by means of it. We look ahead to the following spherical, which is looking for attorneys’ charges, treble damages and punitive damages in opposition to Baldoni, Sarowitz, Nathan, and the opposite Wayfarer Events who perpetrated this abusive litigation.”
Regardless of Full of life’s authorized win, the choose knowledgeable Baldoni that he may amend his claims for breach of implied covenant and tortious interference with contract. Baldoni and his authorized group got a deadline of June 23. They finally opted to not revise their lawsuit.
“The Courtroom’s resolution on the movement to dismiss has no impact in any respect on the reality that there was no harassment nor any smear marketing campaign, and it doesn’t in any approach have an effect on our vigorous protection in opposition to Ms. Full of life’s claims,” Baldoni’s lawyer, Bryan Freedman, mentioned in a press release to Folks in June. “Discovery is continuing and we’re assured that we’ll prevail in opposition to these factually baseless accusations. As a substitute of revising the prevailing claims, our purchasers will probably be pursuing further authorized choices which are accessible to us.”
Full of life’s authorized group reacted to Baldoni’s resolution in a press release. “The Courtroom dismissed the frivolous $400 million Baldoni-Wayfarer lawsuit in its entirety. Within the days that adopted, Baldoni’s lawyer mentioned the choose’s resolution to dismiss their case was not an enormous deal as they promised to amend and refile it. As per regular, that was not true. The Courtroom’s dismissal of Baldoni’s sham lawsuit was a complete victory in any case.”
Whereas Baldoni’s lawsuit has been dismissed, Full of life’s is transferring ahead. A trial is scheduled for March 2026.