by Matthew Russell Lee, Patreon Book Substack
SDNY COURTHOUSE, Sept 3 – In the Blake Lively v. Justin Baldoni lawsuits, a hearing was held on February 3 before U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York Judge Lewis J. Liman. Inner City Press was there with live coverage, thread
On February 10, Lively's lawyer asked for delay: "Plaintiff Blake Lively respectfully moves for an extension of time to file her amended complaint to March 5, 2025. Full filing on Patreon here
On February 11 Baldoni's lawyer consented to delay but noted "unnecessary and baseless attacks on non-party Jed Wallace and the litigation pending against Ms. Lively" - filing on Patreon here
On February 25 Baldoni disagreed on the proposed protective order, on Patreon here
On February 28 Baldoni filed to expand the quashing of Lively's subpoena to include Warfarer employees - filing on Patreon here
On July 16, the eve of Lively's deposition, an emergency hearing which Inner City Press live tweeted here.
At 8:30 pm Lively's lawyers wrote in that her deposition is being pushed to July 31.
On July 28 Judge Liman denied a motion by Perez Hilton to seal information, calling it unnecessary - order on Patreon here
He filed a motion in Nevada - then on August 7 filed with Judge Liman, including "This case and your docket has become a circus" - filing on Patreon here
On August 21 Judge Liman denied the Wayfarer Parties' request to alternatively serve Ferrer, and Ferrer's bid for sanctions: order on Patreon here
On August 22, Judge Liman ruled "Although the Court granted the Wayfarer Parties leave to file a supplemental letter regarding that issue, it did so only because Lively provided certain evidence for the first time in her reply brief. See Dkt. No. 678 at 2. The Court did not similarly grant Lively leave to respond to the Wayfarer Parties’ supplemental letter" - order on Patreon here.
On September 3 Jed Wallace's lawyers filed a reply seeking to dismiss Lively's claims against him, arguing "We note that Lively has retreated not only from her primary conspiracy based jurisdictional theories (although she puts up a game front) but despite repeating verbatim large swaths of her Second Amended Complaint, nowhere mentioned is the previously pleaded winky faced emoji. Dkt. 520 at ¶ 294f," 12 page memo of law on Patreon here
Back on February 6, a new book "Hollywood Hearsay," ranging from the CRD complaint in California o Jed Wallace's new case in Texas, comparing SDNY defamation cases, including Sarah Palin v NYT. Book here, Audiobook here
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