Blake Lively, Justin Baldoni muzzled by judge in heated sexual harassment battle

Blake Lively and Justin Baldoni's attorneys were successful tribunal Monday to sermon what tin and cannot beryllium said to the nationalist connected behalf of their clients.

A justice ordered the stars' ineligible teams to travel the New York Rules of Professional Conduct, which bounds speaking to the press. Neither enactment volition beryllium allowed to marque statements to the property that person a "substantial likelihood" of prejudicing a jury. However, the ineligible teams volition beryllium allowed to support their lawsuit successful the media against publicity not created by either side. 

Lively and Baldoni's respective ineligible teams appeared successful national tribunal Monday to sermon a imaginable gag bid and the actress' alleged refusal to let the "Jane the Virgin" star's lawyer to pb her deposition. Attorneys for some sides claimed the actors had mislaid retired connected "hundreds of millions of dollars successful damages" owed to statements made successful the property pursuing Lively's archetypal intersexual harassment claims.

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Blake Lively and Justin Baldoni's respective ineligible teams appeared successful national tribunal Monday. (Getty Images)

A tribunal sketch depicts Blake Lively and Ryan Reynolds' attorney, Michael J. Gottlieb (R) and Justin Baldoni's attorney, Bryan Freedman, (L) arsenic they some reason with Judge Lewis J. Lima successful national tribunal contiguous successful New York City, NY, Monday, February 3. 2025. (Jane Rosenberg)

A projected protective bid is owed March 11 and the proceedings day is inactive acceptable for March 2026.

Lively had specifically accused Baldoni's lawyer, Bryan Freedman, of attacking her quality successful statements shared with the media. However, Freedman seemed "pleased" with the result of Monday's tribunal hearing.

"Our clients are devastated and privation to determination the lawsuit on arsenic rapidly arsenic possible," Freedman told reporters extracurricular the courthouse. "We conscionable couldn’t beryllium much pleased with however the lawsuit was handled today, however it was managed."

"We’re going to determination arsenic rapidly arsenic we perchance tin and beryllium our innocence, successful a satellite wherever sometimes radical justice you earlier they springiness you a chance. And we’re going to alteration that."

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Lively's squad said they are "pleased with the effect of today’s proceeding and anxious to determination guardant instantly with find successful this case."

"The Court granted our petition that each attorneys successful the substance really travel the regularisation of instrumentality and not marque immoderate statements that could prejudice a jury," Lively's lawyers, Michael Gottlieb & Esra Hudson, said successful a connection provided to Fox News Digital. 

"This lawsuit deals with superior allegations of intersexual harassment and retaliation. We will clasp the defendants accountable, and we are assured that erstwhile each the grounds is submitted successful this matter, Ms. Lively volition prevail."

Blake Lively claimed she was sexually harassed connected the acceptable of "It Ends With Us." ( Gareth Cattermole)

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Ahead of the hearing, lawyers for Lively slammed Baldoni's lawyer for making aggregate statements to the media that could yet taint the assemblage should the actress' intersexual harassment complaints against Baldoni marque it to a courtroom.

"As Ms. Lively’s counsel person attempted, repeatedly, to caution Mr. Freedman, national litigation indispensable beryllium conducted successful tribunal and according to the applicable rules of nonrecreational conduct," a letter, obtained by Fox News Digital and filed with the court, stated. "His behaviour threatens to, and will, materially prejudice some the Lively Case and the Wayfarer Case by tainting the assemblage pool, due to the fact that his statements are deliberately aimed astatine undermining the ‘character, credibility, [and] reputation’ of galore applicable parties."

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Both Blake Lively and Justin Baldoni's ineligible teams are "pleased" with the mode the proceeding went connected Monday. (Getty Images)

Baldoni and Lively became embroiled successful a ineligible back-and-forth aft filming the Colleen Hoover-adapted film, "It Ends With Us." The "Gossip Girl" histrion claimed she experienced intersexual harassment connected acceptable and sued Baldoni successful December.

Lively elaborate allegations of intersexual harassment, retaliation, intentional affliction of affectional distress, negligence and much made by Baldoni and movie shaper Jamey Heath successful a ailment archetypal filed with the California Civil Rights section and aboriginal successful national court. Some of the issues allegedly addressed astatine an "all-hands" gathering earlier filming resumed included nary much showing nude videos oregon images of women to Lively, nary much notation of Baldoni’s erstwhile "pornography addiction," nary much discussions astir idiosyncratic experiences with sex, nary much descriptions of their ain genitalia, nary much adding enactment scenes extracurricular what was successful the archetypal script, nary much discussions astir Lively’s value oregon deceased begetter and more.

Blake Lively sued Justin Baldoni successful December. (Photo by JUSTIN TALLIS/AFP via Getty Images)

However, Baldoni insisted Lively "falsely" accused him successful an effort to repair her estimation aft the fallout astir the movie's property circuit aft the histrion took power of the movie successful his ain suit filed successful January.

Baldoni's ineligible team claimed Lively had nary grounds of a deliberate smear run and alternatively worked to repair her estimation by accusing the histrion and others of intersexual harassment.

Both Baldoni and Lively person denied the allegations against them.

Justin Baldoni sued Blake Lively and Ryan Reynolds for $400 cardinal successful a lawsuit. (Nathan Congleton)

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