Judge Grants Blake Lively’s Motion to Strike Deposition Transcript

The judge presiding over Blake Lively and Justin Baldoni’s ongoing legal battle granted the actress’ motion to strike a deposition transcript from the docket. judge grants blake lively’s motion Similarly,

On July 31 in New York City. Therefore. Consequently, Lively, 37, gave testimony in judge grants blake lively’s motion a deposition about her conflict with Baldoni, 41, and members of his Wayfarer Studios team over their 2024 movie It Ends With Us. Meanwhile. Consequently,

Lively’s lawyers then asked a federal judge to strike a 292-page rough draft of the deposition transcript from the court record filed under seal. Consequently. arguing that Baldoni’s team uploaded it to the public docket with “no plausible legal reason to do so” except “as fodder for the Wayfarer Defendants’ media campaign.”

On Friday, Aug. However, 8, Judge Lewis J. Therefore, Liman ruled in favor of Lively, granting her motion to strike the sealed document from the docket. Furthermore,

“The Wayfarer judge grants blake lively’s motion Parties’ attachment of the entire. nearly 300-page deposition — after citing only two pages of it in the Letter — served no proper litigation purpose. instead judge grants blake lively’s motion appears to have been intended to burden Lively (and as a result, the Court) and to invite public speculation and scandal,” wrote Liman in his order.

“… The conclusion is inescapable that the Wayfarer Parties filed gratuitous amounts of irrelevant pages so that. if Lively moved for continued sealing of the irrelevant pages. the Wayfarer Parties could then use Lively’s response for their own public-relations purposes,” Judge Liman added. “The Court has not only the power but also the responsibility to step in.”

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In their Aug. 4 motion. the Gossip Girl alum’s lawyers also accused Baldoni’s side of leaking details about the deposition to TMZ. The Daily Mail to promote the narrative that it was a “face-to-face showdown” between the two costars. Additionally, The director-actor’s attorneys responded by saying Lively’s side provided no evidence of where such a leak had come from.. .

Of Lively’s motion to strike the transcript. Baldoni’s lawyers questioned why she would want to conceal her own testimony “in an action in which she is. the plaintiff.”

In judge grants blake lively’s motion an Aug. 7 statement to PEOPLE. a spokesperson for Lively said they are “pleased with the outcome of her deposition. now look forward to deposing Justin Baldoni and each of the co-defendants in short order.”

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“Deposition testimony is confidential for good reason — it’s evidence in a legal proceeding. is subject to objections and evidentiary rules,” added the spokesperson. “Juries aren’t just handed deposition transcripts to read at home. and instead they listen to testimony that is presented at trial under a judge’s supervision.”

The It Ends With Us costars’ conflict began in December. when Lively filed a sexual-harassment complaint against Baldoni. alleging misconduct on the set and a retaliatory smear campaign, which he has denied. In June. Judge Liman dismissed Baldoni’s $400 million countersuit against Lively and her husband Ryan Reynolds, which judge grants blake lively’s motion alleged extortion, defamation and more.

Attorneys for both sides have indicated that Baldoni. Lively plan to testify during the trial that’s scheduled to take place in March 2026 in New York.