Blake Full of life and Ryan Reynolds are looking for to dismiss Justin Baldoni’s $400 million lawsuit against them.
The “Gossip Woman” alum and her husband’s attorneys knowledgeable a NYC choose of their plans through a discover filed on Thursday, according to legal documents obtained by Variety.
“The Full of life-Reynolds Events intend to maneuver to dismiss Plaintiffs’ grievance,” mentioned Michael J. Gottlieb.
Choose Lewis Liman had beforehand requested that the attorneys ship a written discover to “point out in a single sentence the Defendant’s intent to make a movement to dismiss.”
Liman will set a deadline later to really file the movement, the outlet claims.
Publicist Leslie Sloane, who was additionally named as a defendant in Baldoni’s go well with, filed an analogous discover on Wednesday.
Reps for Reynolds, Full of life and Baldoni didn’t instantly reply to Web page Six’s requests for remark.
Attorneys for all events are scheduled to attend the primary listening to for the ongoing legal drama between Full of life and her co-star Monday.
Full of life — who stars within the movie as Lily Bloom — first filed a complaint on Dec. 20 with the California Civil Rights Division, stating that Baldoni, 41, sexually harassed her on the set of the movie.
She additional alleged that the “Jane the Virgin” alum retaliated against her by launching a smear marketing campaign to hurt her repute.
Earlier this month, Baldoni responded to Full of life’s claims by submitting his defamation and extortion lawsuit in opposition to her, Reynolds, and the actress’ publicist, Sloane.
He additionally filed a $250 million libel lawsuit in opposition to the New York Occasions on the finish of December 2024 for reporting on Full of life’s claims in opposition to him.
Baldoni’s lawsuit alleged that Full of life rewrote components of the script and “started inserting herself into the manufacturing course of in intrusive methods effectively past the scope of her contractual entitlement.”
Full of life filed a formal lawsuit against Baldoni on Dec. 31 in New York Federal Court docket for alleged sexual harassment, retaliation, breach of contract, infliction of emotional misery, invasion of privateness and misplaced wages.
The “A Easy Favor” actress, 37, made claims that Baldoni made her feel uncomfortable whereas working collectively. Not solely did she allege that he made sexually suggestive feedback, however she additionally claims Baldoni spoke along with her “out of character.”
Baldoni released raw footage from “It Ends With Us” in an try and refute Full of life’s claims; nonetheless, her group has called the video “damning” and argued it corroborated her claims.
On the court docket listening to Monday, the attorneys are scheduled to debate Baldoni’s lawyer Bryan Freedman’s extrajudicial conduct, per Selection.
Full of life’s camp has claimed that Freedman’s comments to the press may “taint the jury pool.”
A New York choose set a March 2026 trial date for the case and moved the court docket listening to initially scheduled for mid-February to Monday.
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