Court Dismisses Justin Baldoni's Defamation Claims Against Blake Lively and Others (Stemming from the Making of It Ends With Us)

by Judge Lewis Liman (S.D.N.Y.) is here; the court also rejects the Baldoni side's civil extortion, breach of contract, false light, promissory fraud, and breach of contract claims. The opinion is too long to summarize here, but the key arguments that the court accepted as to the defamation claims…