A federal judge today took an ax to Blake Lively‘s multi-pronged legal action against her It Starts with Us co-star Justin Baldoni, tossing out her allegations of sexual harassment in a 162-page ruling (read it here).
Although her multimillion-dollar lawsuit against Baldoni, his Wayfarer Studios and his crisis PR team remains set for trial next month in New York City, the proceedings now mainly will revolve around Lively’s defamation and retaliation claims.
“None of these acts or occurrences provides the ‘substantial connection’ to California needed to sustain Lively’s sexual harassment claims,” Liman wrote in his ruling. Later in the document, he added: “The Court therefore grants judgment on Counts Three and Thirteen of the SAC because those claims lack a sufficient nexus to California. That means that both Lively’s federal and state claims of sexual harassment fail to survive the Wayfarer Parties’ motions for summary judgment on the
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