Overview
- U.S. District Judge Lewis J. Liman ruled that Texas-based strategist Jed Wallace lacks sufficient New York ties, dismissing Lively’s claims against him without prejudice to refiling in a court with jurisdiction, likely in Texas.
- Wallace has a separate defamation suit against Lively pending in Texas, while the dismissal in New York does not affect Lively’s remaining claims against Justin Baldoni and others.
- Newly unsealed disclosures from July estimate Lively’s losses at about $161 million, including alleged hits to earnings, her beauty brand and beverage company, plus reputational harm measured by tens of millions of negative social-media impressions.
- The disclosures list more than 100 potential witnesses — including Taylor Swift, Emily Blunt, Gigi Hadid and Hugh Jackman — as part of routine discovery, with no guarantee they will testify.
- A final judgment entered last week formally ended Baldoni’s $400 million countersuit after no amended complaint was filed; his lawyer says the decision preserved appeal rights, and Lively’s request for attorneys’ fees remains active.