By Jailene Giron
Blake Interesting Right scored a new victory against his former co-star, Justin Baldoni. This after determining that The celebrity must pay his legal fees related to the defamation lawsuit that the actress filed against him.
The ruling issued by Judge Lewis J. Liman rules that The protagonist of “It Ends With Us” will be able to recover part of the legal expenses from also actor and director Justin Baldoni, but not the punitive damages or other compensation that she requested after reaching an agreement in their lawsuits related to the movie they filmed in 2024.
According to the writing, The award of legal fees and other costs is strictly related to the countersuit that Baldoni filed against Blake Interesting after she accused him of defamation.
And it is that The celebrity’s petition used as an argument a California law designed to protect victims of sexual harassment and discrimination. of retaliatory demands aimed at intimidating and silencing them.
This law requires the plaintiff to pay the defendant’s legal fees and costs if a defamation action filed in response to a complaint is dismissed, even if the truth of the facts has not been clarified.
In this sense, The judge in charge of the case indicated that Baldoni could refrain from paying legal fees if he could prove that Blake Interesting acted “with malice” in suing him. However, until the verdict, Baldoni and the Wayfarer production company have presented scant evidence.
For now, The amount that Justin Baldoni must pay Blake is unknown Interestingas well as the method that will be used to calculate legal fees.
Likewise, it was confirmed that in his verdict Lewis J. Liman rejected the actor’s request to triple any compensation and claim punitive damages under California law: “They did not conform to “federal procedural rules carefully crafted to protect the rights of the parties.”it is noted in the writing.
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