Blake Full of life says Justin Baldoni’s “vengeful and rambling” defamation swimsuit in opposition to her are needs to be tossed as a result of it’s in opposition to the regulation.
Baldoni’s $400 million swimsuit in opposition to Full of life for accusing him of sexual misconduct needs to be thrown out since claims of sexual harassment are protected against “retaliatory lawsuits,” her legal professionals stated in paperwork filed in Manhattan federal court docket Thursday.
Their “vengeful and rambling lawsuit against Blake Lively is a profound abuse of the legal process,” Full of life’s legal professionals wrote. “The law prohibits weaponizing defamation lawsuits, like this one, to retaliate against individuals who have filed legal claims or have publicly spoken out about sexual harassment and retaliation.”
Full of life was “legally entitled to file her complaint and disclose it to the public,” the submitting says of the preliminary swimsuit, which focuses on interactions between the now-battling duo throughout filming of “It Ends With Us.”
Baldoni’s counter-suit quantities to a “blunt public relations” instrument and is a part of the actor and his manufacturing firm’s “sinister campaign to ‘bury’ and ‘destroy’ her for coming forward,” the court docket papers allege.
Attorneys for Baldoni didn’t instantly return a request for remark Thursday.
Extra reporting by Peter Senzamici
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