(NewsNation) — Blake Lively has scored another victory in her legal fight with Justin Baldoni.
The judge presiding over her case granted the “All I See Is You” actress’ motion to strike a rough draft of her deposition transcript from the docket, according to People magazine.
“The Wayfarer Parties’ attachment of the entire, nearly 300-page deposition — after citing only two pages of it in the Letter — served no proper litigation purpose and instead appears to have been intended to burden Lively (and as a result, the Court) and to invite public speculation and scandal,” Judge Lewis J. Liman ruled Friday.
On Monday, Lively’s attorney had asked the judge to strike the 292-page transcript after details of her deposition were revealed.
“In rushing to file on the public docket the entirety of the 292-page transcript on the day they received it, with no plausible legal reason to do so, the Wayfarer Defendants and their counsel have proved Ms. Lively’s point,” Lively’s attorney wrote to Liman.
Blake Lively’s deposition details revealed
Details from Lively’s July 31 sit-down deposition were released Aug. 4.
In a text chain revealed in unsealed documents from Lively’s sexual harassment lawsuit against Baldoni, editor Robb Sullivan texted “SMH” — shorthand for “shaking my head” — to co-editor Oona Flaherty and a person named Henry Grace.
In his ruling on Friday, Liman added, “The conclusion is inescapable that the Wayfarer Parties filed gratuitous amounts of irrelevant pages so that, if Lively moved for continued sealing of the irrelevant pages, the Wayfarer Parties could then use Lively’s response for their own public-relations purposes,” he wrote. “The Court has not only the power but also the responsibility to step in.”
Lively and Baldoni co-starred in the movie “It Ends With Us.” In December of 2024, Lively sued Baldoni, who also directed the movie, for alleged sexual harassment and creating a hostile environment on the movie set. She also alleged Baldoni orchestrated a smear campaign against her.
Liman threw out Baldoni’s $400 million countersuit against Lively and Reynolds in June. He said Baldoni’s team had not alleged Lively was responsible for any statements outside of her California Civil Rights Department complaint, which he said is privileged.
Lively and Baldoni’s trial is scheduled for March 2026.