Blake Lively and Ryan Reynolds ask federal court to drop Justin Baldoni's $400M suit amid legal battles

Blake Lively and Ryan Reynolds on Thursday expressed their volition to inquire a national tribunal to driblet a suit filed earlier this month by her It Ends with Us director Justin Baldoni.

'The Lively-Reynolds Parties mean to determination to disregard Plaintiffs' complaint,' an lawyer for the Hollywood powerfulness couple, Michael Gottlieb, requested to Judge Lewis Liman successful a letter, Variety reported Thursday aft reviewing ineligible documents successful the case.

The ineligible petition comes arsenic the archetypal proceeding successful a spate of lawsuits betwixt the collaborators connected the summertime deed is acceptable to commence adjacent week.

Lively, 37, past period sued Baldoni, 41, amid claims of intersexual harassment during accumulation of the question picture, which was a deed erstwhile it arrived successful theaters successful August.

In Lively's suit against Baldoni, the Gossip Girl alum accused Baldoni of sexually harassing her successful aggregate ways - including assemblage shaming her. 

Lively - who is mother to 4 kids with the Deadpool prima Reynolds, 48 - filed an 80-page civil rights complaint with the California Civil Rights Department against Baldoni successful precocious December, earlier officially filing a national suit against him connected December 31.

Lively told The New York Times the time aft she filed the complaint, 'I anticipation that my ineligible enactment helps propulsion backmost the curtain connected these sinister retaliatory tactics to harm radical who talk up astir misconduct and helps support others who whitethorn beryllium targeted.'

Baldoni has denied each of the claims against him successful Lively's ineligible filing, and has sued the paper for $250 cardinal successful a defamation claim. 

Earlier this month, helium filed a $400 cardinal suit against Lively, Reynolds and her publicist Leslie Sloane, saying they concocted 'false accusations of intersexual harassment' against him.

Since the ailment was filed, Baldoni has faced a fig of nonrecreational consequences, including a suit from a erstwhile publicist; and being dropped by the bureau WME, which besides reps Lively and Reynolds.

It Ends with Us, which besides starred Jenny Slate, Hasan Minhaj, Brandon Sklenar and Kevin McKidd, arrived successful theaters August 9 and was a deed with audiences. 

The film, adapted from the 2016 Colleen Hoover novel, earned $148 cardinal successful home container office, and $350 cardinal globally, according to Box Office Mojo.