Blake Lively, Justin Baldoni confused by judge in heated sexual harassment -fight

Blake Lively and Justin Baldoni’s lawyers were in court Monday to discuss what can and cannot be said to the public on behalf of their clients.

A judge ordered Stars’ legal team to follow the New York rules for professional behavior that limits speech to the press. None of the parties are allowed to make statements to the press that has a “essential probability” of condemning a jury. However, the legal teams are allowed to defend their client in the media against advertising that has not been created by any of the pages.

Lively and Baldoni’s respective legal team appeared on Monday in the federal court to discuss a potential gag order and the actress’s alleged rejection of giving “Jane the Virgin” star’s lawyer the opportunity to lead her deposit. Lawyers for both sides claimed that the actors had lost on “hundreds of millions of dollars in compensation” due to statements in the press according to Lively’s original demand for sexual harassment.

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A proposed protective order is due on March 11, and the trial is still determined by March 2026.

Lively, Lively had accused Baldoni’s lawyer, Bryan Freedman, of attacking his character in statements shared with the media. The actress’s lawyer, Michael Gottleib, told court that Freedman has shared his views and statements in the press when it was all handled in court.

Freedman fired back in court and said “they started it” by allegedly working with the New York Times to publish an article that attacked Baldoni. Freedman noted that when the allegations “hit the press”, readers will “give an opinion on who is right and who is wrong.” Baldoni sued the New York Times for defamation of the article. Freedman said that even though “they started it” sounds like an argument that a 4-year-old would do, Lively’s team said something first, and when someone says something, it becomes fact.

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“This is not a one -way street,” Freedman explained when he called Lively’s team for statements from the press. He pointed to statements in which Baldoni was accused of being an addict and using defense tactics that “turn tables on the victim.”

Despite the heated back and forth, Freedman seemed “satisfied” with the result of Monday’s hearing.

“Our clients are broken and want to move the matter as soon as possible,” Freedman told journalists outside the courthouse. “We just couldn’t be more satisfied with how the case was handled today, how it was managed.”

“We will move as fast as we might and prove our innocence, in a world where people sometimes judge you before giving you a chance. And we will change it.”

Lively’s team said they are “happy with the result of today’s hearing and eager to move on immediately with the discovery in this case.”

“The court responded to our request that all lawyers in the case actually follow the rule of law and not make any statements that could distribute a jury,” said Lively’s lawyers, Michael Gottlieb and Esra Hudson, in a statement delivered to Fox News Digital.

“This case deals with serious accusations of sexual harassment and retaliation. We will keep the defendants responsible, and we are convinced that when all the evidence is presented in this case, Lively will win.”

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At the forefront of the hearing, lawyers slammed for lively Baldoni’s lawyer for making several statements to the media, as they said, could eventually smash the jury if the actress’s complaints about sexual harassment against Baldoni come to a courtroom.

“Since Mrs. Lively’s Council has tried repeatedly to warn Mr. Freedman, federal litigation must be implemented before the court and in accordance with the relevant rules of professional behavior,” states a letter obtained by Fox News Digital and submits to the Court, to The Court,. “His behavior threatens and will materially prejudice both the lively case and the wayfarer case of painting the jury because his statements are deliberately aimed at undermining ‘character, credibility, (and) reputation’ of several relevant parties.”

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Baldoni and Lively got involved in a legal back and forth after filming Colleen Hoover-adapted film, “It ends with us.” The “Gossip Girl” actress claimed she was experiencing sexual harassment on sets and sued Baldoni in December.

Lively detailed accusations of sexual harassmentretaliation, intentional suffering of emotional distress, negligence and more made by Baldoni and film producer Jamey Heath in a complaint that was first filed with California’s civil rights department and later by the federal court. Some of the questions allegedly addressed at an “all -hand” meeting before the filming resumed did not include more that show naked videos or pictures of women to lively, no more mention of Baldoni’s previous “Pornography Dependence”, no more discussions About personal experiences with sex, no more descriptions of their own genitals, no more to add sex scenes outside of what was in the original manuscript, no more discussions about Lively’s weight or deceased father and more.

Baldoni, however, insisted that Lively “false” accused him in an attempt to repair his reputation in the middle of the fall of the film’s press tour after the actress took control of the film in his own trial filed in January.

Baldoni’s legal team Lively, Lively claimed that Lively had no evidence of a deliberate smear campaign and worked instead of repairing his reputation by accusing the actor and others of sexual harassment.

Both Baldoni and Lively have denied the claims against them.

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