Overview

• Judge Liman dismissed Baldoni’s defamation and extortion counterclaims, ushering the case into the discovery phase
• Lively’s lawyers have subpoenaed two publicists connected to Baldoni, and those publicists have sought an extra week to hand over documents
• Discovery demands now center on video footage, internal emails and text messages that both sides say will prove their accounts
• Baldoni’s attorney, Bryan Freedman, plans to press Lively under penalty of perjury and use multimedia evidence to challenge her testimony
• A March 2026 trial in New York will feature both Blake Lively and Justin Baldoni giving testimony on the harassment allegations