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It Ends With Legal Fees: The Blake Lively and Justin Baldoni Legal Battle Isn’t Actually Over

Rolling Stone·Kory Grow·26 days ago
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Both sides have agreed not to contest a judge's ruling on the matter Even though Blake Lively and Justin Baldoni reached a settlement in their legal dispute over alleged sexual misconduct on the set of It Ends With Us and an alleged smear campaign Baldoni led after its release, it hasn’t ended quite yet. Lively still wants Baldoni to pay her attorneys’ fees for the countersuit he filed against her that a judge dismissed. Because both parties reached the settlement “with prejudice,” meaning Lively cannot refile the same suit against Baldoni, it left the door open to collect compensation for what Lively had to pay her lawyers for their time. She can also seek punitive damages (an amount of money as punishment for effectively wasting her lawyers’ time with a suit a judge deemed meritless) and treble damages, which would award her three times the amount of what a jury would determine to be actual or compensatory damages.…

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