Blake Lively asks judge to toss Justin Baldoni’s ‘vengeful and rambling’ suit against her

nypost.com:

$400 million suit against Lively is illegal because it aims to punish the actress for speaking out about the alleged sexual harassment she suffered, her lawyers argued in a Manhattan federal court filing Thursday.

The “vengeful and rambling lawsuit against Blake Lively, 37, is a profound abuse of the legal process,” her attorneys wrote, about the bombshell case filed by Baldoni, 41, and production company Wayfarer Studios.The law prevents Baldoni from “weaponizing” the legal system to retaliate against Lively for coming forward and filing her own suit alleging she was sexually harassed by the director on the set of “It Ends With Us,” her attorneys argued.Lively was “legally entitled” to bring her case and give an interview to the New York Times, revealing her sensational claims against Baldoni — the director and her co-star in the flick.

Baldoni’s counterclaims — which he only filed after Lively brought her suit — amounts to a “blunt public relations” tool and is part of the actor and Wayfarer Studios’ “sinister campaign to ‘bury’ and ‘destroy’ her for coming forward,” the court papers allege.His bid to “sue Ms.

Lively ‘into oblivion'” only puts him on the hook for more liability as she seeks legal fees and damages from him, her attorneys claimed.The filing came after the “Gossip Girl” star’s husband, actor Ryan Reynolds, on Tuesday asked the judge to toss Baldoni’s claims against him.Reynolds, 48, argued in court papers that he couldn’t have defamed Baldoni because he “genuinely believes Mr.