Blake Lively- Jason Baldoni and NYT - False Light claims

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Blake has started her discovery and subpoenas with her Jed. They have asked for internet and cloud records. As i said earlier Blake is in no position to have the desire to settle. Not until she gets all of her own theories/documents out.

https://www.thewrap.com/blake-lively-justin-baldoni-lawsuit-text-message-subpoenas/

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Anonymous wrote:The comments on TikTok about the latest uncovered disastrous interview of hers are hilarious. She should find new things to sue him for, maybe he looked at her during a love scene in a way that made her uncomfortable.

Which interview?

An interview from 2022 in which she proudly says she auditions for roles as an actor but when they hire her she reveals she wants a lot more responsibilities in order to “feel fulfilled.” It’s amazing how stupid she is to actually say this in an interview. But this is someone who wrote “la face Oakland booty” so not surprising. If she were just dumb I don’t think she would be getting this much hate, it’s the additional factor of being a classic mean girl that gets people going I think.

Yes, Forbes interview from September 2022. Why did she have to say this?

This sounds introspective to me. If she actually did make it clear when signing on with Wayfarer that she wanted to collaborate, I don't see an issue there. Clearly they got more than they bargained for and regret not making her sign her contract right away lol.

She says directly in the interview that she doesn’t tell anyone her desire to “collaborate” until after she’s hired. It’s a very deliberate omission.

DP. I feel like I watched a different interview or something. It's clear to me she's saying that when she was younger she used to people please in initial conversations about movies and then only once she was working on the movie would she start to express her ideas and want to have input, and she understands how that must have seemed like a "rug pull" to people because she wasn't being honest from the jump about how she wanted to participate.

But then she goes onto say that she's learned from that and now she tells people from the start she wants to collaborate and not "just" be an actor, and she can tell who to work with based on how receptive they are to that. Agree with PP it sounds introspective. It does seem like she was honest with Wayfarer from the start that she wanted to be a collaborator -- she asked for a producer credit from the start and it's clear from the messages between her and Baldoni that he was at least telling her he wanted to collaborate and have her be part of the process.

So at least in this instance, it doesn't look like she tried to mislead them -- it seems like they knew how involved she wanted to be from the start, agreed to it, but then later regretted it?

This is not the gotcha some of you seem to think.

For some reason she feels that it’s the producer’s responsibility to fulfill her needs. Is she the only actor in the film? What about the other actors’ needs? How about the director’s needs?

Right, and while it’s neat that she wants this collaboration, as was said multiple times in texts, check her contract. Just because you want it and just because some director and producer blows smoke up your ass to get you to sign doesn’t mean that it’s going to be a collaborative process. That’s just the real world and I’m sure we’ve all been situations where we told our input was wanted and then it was not used. I mean, I feel for her, but Hollywood is a pretty brutal industry and I just don’t know that she’s earned the storytelling chops. As others have said women who have wanted to take control of their own stories, have started their own production companies or have directed films. Anna Kendrick just directed her first feature, which I really enjoyed and Scarlett J is set to direct her first feature coming out next year as well. If she wants to direct, she should just direct and not try to take over someone else’s film.

I get the impression from this lawsuit and from many other things I’ve heard that Blake actually doesn’t really want to do the hard work of making a movie. It sounded like she was disappearing for days and weeks on end and not even doing basic things like learning her lines when she was supposed to for this movie. She claims she wrote the rooftop scene and now we know that Ryan actually wrote it, she claims she edited when actually she just hired the Deadpool editor. She wants control and credit, but I don’t think she actually wants to do the work.

I totally agree with you. She is just lazy and wants everything handed to her. Classic nepo baby.

I’m the poster you are responding to and in full disclosure I have more to say about this because this actually just really pisses me off. Blake waltzed onto a set that people spent years and I mean years crafting between the screen play and the production and set design and hiring and just laying out the vision for the movie. Then she decides she wants to make some tweaks and she calls that collaboration, but it’s just not.

Years and years ago before Jessica Alba had her honest company, I remember there was a writer’s strike and she spoke up and said that she improvs some of her lines anyway and a lot of actors do so she didn’t really see the importance of writers.

People came out of the woodwork to absolutely slam her, saying that similar to what I said, she waltzes into a set people has spent months crafting the story and the script. She may improv a line or even part of a scene but it’s because people have spent months if not years, setting the tone for the story, creating the world she walked into, crafting the characters and giving them backstory. In short, she just didn’t get it. I feel like Blake is the same way. She has no idea of the hard work that went to everything that she just walked into.

It’s actually infuriating and what is most infuriating is even after all that she just won’t get it and probably will think that she was deeply wronged.

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Anonymous wrote:Blake has started her discovery and subpoenas with her Jed. They have asked for internet and cloud records. As i said earlier Blake is in no position to have the desire to settle. Not until she gets all of her own theories/documents out.

https://www.thewrap.com/blake-lively-justin-baldoni-lawsuit-text-message-subpoenas/

I would kill to know how much Blake and Ryan are spending on legal fees for this.

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Anonymous wrote:Blake has started her discovery and subpoenas with her Jed. They have asked for internet and cloud records. As i said earlier Blake is in no position to have the desire to settle. Not until she gets all of her own theories/documents out.

https://www.thewrap.com/blake-lively-justin-baldoni-lawsuit-text-message-subpoenas/

I would kill to know how much Blake and Ryan are spending on legal fees for this.

I guarantee it’s an amount they NEVER expected to spend lol.

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Anonymous wrote:Blake has started her discovery and subpoenas with her Jed. They have asked for internet and cloud records. As i said earlier Blake is in no position to have the desire to settle. Not until she gets all of her own theories/documents out.

https://www.thewrap.com/blake-lively-justin-baldoni-lawsuit-text-message-subpoenas/

I would kill to know how much Blake and Ryan are spending on legal fees for this.

They probably figured they could win just because of their enormous net worth. Whatever amount it is, their egos will be hit far harder than their bank account. They can spare many millions and not even notice.

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Anonymous wrote:Blake has started her discovery and subpoenas with her Jed. They have asked for internet and cloud records. As i said earlier Blake is in no position to have the desire to settle. Not until she gets all of her own theories/documents out.

https://www.thewrap.com/blake-lively-justin-baldoni-lawsuit-text-message-subpoenas/

You’re right, now that I read an article based on statements from her pr team and lawyer I think she has amazing g case.

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Anonymous wrote:Blake has started her discovery and subpoenas with her Jed. They have asked for internet and cloud records. As i said earlier Blake is in no position to have the desire to settle. Not until she gets all of her own theories/documents out.

https://www.thewrap.com/blake-lively-justin-baldoni-lawsuit-text-message-subpoenas/

You’re right, now that I read an article based on statements from her pr team and lawyer I think she has amazing g case.

Are you being sarcastic? I read that article and thought she had absolutely no evidence is hoping to get lucky.

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Anonymous wrote:TikTok litigation followers are reporting that a mediation is scheduled between Blake and Justin, so maybe Blake is getting the message. It seems early for a court ordered mediation but I don’t practice in NY so not sure of what their rules require.

I have not litigated in this specific court before, but it's standard in federal court for judges to refer to mediation after the first status conference, which in this case was last week. So timing seems normal to me.

Yeah mediation is pretty normal. It's only used for the settlement aspect but to get everyone on the same page without having to go in front of the judge so much. I personally think that's what it will most likely used for. To set an appropriate timeline for discovery and guildlines for future motions.

What you are describing is a discovery conference, not a mediation.

DP but the mediation can be used to address conflicts in discovery. They can't set the timeline in mediation but they can come up with one they agree to and then the judge will sign off on it. One reason courts order mediation starting this early is specifically to try and get the parties to collaborate and start resolving some issues so they don't have to litigate every single thing. You see this a lot in family court but I've seen it in lots of non-family civil cases as well. Judges really hate dealing with parties that just want to fight in court all the time and bring motions to punish or trick each other. It's more work for them and they wind up feeling used -- many judges will push very hard on parties like this to sort out these smaller, non-dispositive issues (like when a deposition happens) via the mediator and then just tell the judge what they decided and he'll sign off on it.

What you're describing is a discovery conference, which typically takes place in front of a magistrate judge, in complex cases where the parties may need more time to discuss discovery issues than the trial judge has available. A mediation is where the parties make some attempt to settle the litigation. As I said, I have not practiced in federal court in NY but I have had litigation in federal court elsewhere. Typically mediation occurs shortly before trial, when the parties have had the benefit of full discovery. Perhaps the local court rules in NY are different.

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Anonymous wrote:Blake has started her discovery and subpoenas with her Jed. They have asked for internet and cloud records. As i said earlier Blake is in no position to have the desire to settle. Not until she gets all of her own theories/documents out.

https://www.thewrap.com/blake-lively-justin-baldoni-lawsuit-text-message-subpoenas/

You’re right, now that I read an article based on statements from her pr team and lawyer I think she has amazing g case.

Are you being sarcastic? I read that article and thought she had absolutely no evidence is hoping to get lucky.

Yes

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Anonymous wrote:Blake has started her discovery and subpoenas with her Jed. They have asked for internet and cloud records. As i said earlier Blake is in no position to have the desire to settle. Not until she gets all of her own theories/documents out.

https://www.thewrap.com/blake-lively-justin-baldoni-lawsuit-text-message-subpoenas/

You’re right, now that I read an article based on statements from her pr team and lawyer I think she has amazing g case.

Are you being sarcastic? I read that article and thought she had absolutely no evidence is hoping to get lucky.

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Sorry, with the level of delusion from posters on here it’s hard to know.

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Anonymous wrote:Blake has started her discovery and subpoenas with her Jed. They have asked for internet and cloud records. As i said earlier Blake is in no position to have the desire to settle. Not until she gets all of her own theories/documents out.

https://www.thewrap.com/blake-lively-justin-baldoni-lawsuit-text-message-subpoenas/

In other words, they have nothing at this point, but they are embarking on a fishing expedition. I can't recall how long service providers retain text records, but I don't think she'll retrieve much from 18 months ago.

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Anonymous wrote:Blake has started her discovery and subpoenas with her Jed. They have asked for internet and cloud records. As i said earlier Blake is in no position to have the desire to settle. Not until she gets all of her own theories/documents out.

https://www.thewrap.com/blake-lively-justin-baldoni-lawsuit-text-message-subpoenas/

In other words, they have nothing at this point, but they are embarking on a fishing expedition. I can't recall how long service providers retain text records, but I don't think she'll retrieve much from 18 months ago.

1000000%. She has nothing.

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Anonymous wrote:Blake has started her discovery and subpoenas with her Jed. They have asked for internet and cloud records. As i said earlier Blake is in no position to have the desire to settle. Not until she gets all of her own theories/documents out.

https://www.thewrap.com/blake-lively-justin-baldoni-lawsuit-text-message-subpoenas/

In other words, they have nothing at this point, but they are embarking on a fishing expedition. I can't recall how long service providers retain text records, but I don't think she'll retrieve much from 18 months ago.

1000000%. She has nothing.

Agree. Classic fishing expedition.

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Anonymous wrote:Blake has started her discovery and subpoenas with her Jed. They have asked for internet and cloud records. As i said earlier Blake is in no position to have the desire to settle. Not until she gets all of her own theories/documents out.

https://www.thewrap.com/blake-lively-justin-baldoni-lawsuit-text-message-subpoenas/

In other words, they have nothing at this point, but they are embarking on a fishing expedition. I can't recall how long service providers retain text records, but I don't think she'll retrieve much from 18 months ago.

1000000%. She has nothing.

Agree. Classic fishing expedition.

She should really try to settle this now.

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Anonymous wrote:TikTok litigation followers are reporting that a mediation is scheduled between Blake and Justin, so maybe Blake is getting the message. It seems early for a court ordered mediation but I don’t practice in NY so not sure of what their rules require.

I have not litigated in this specific court before, but it's standard in federal court for judges to refer to mediation after the first status conference, which in this case was last week. So timing seems normal to me.

Yeah mediation is pretty normal. It's only used for the settlement aspect but to get everyone on the same page without having to go in front of the judge so much. I personally think that's what it will most likely used for. To set an appropriate timeline for discovery and guildlines for future motions.

What you are describing is a discovery conference, not a mediation.

DP but the mediation can be used to address conflicts in discovery. They can't set the timeline in mediation but they can come up with one they agree to and then the judge will sign off on it. One reason courts order mediation starting this early is specifically to try and get the parties to collaborate and start resolving some issues so they don't have to litigate every single thing. You see this a lot in family court but I've seen it in lots of non-family civil cases as well. Judges really hate dealing with parties that just want to fight in court all the time and bring motions to punish or trick each other. It's more work for them and they wind up feeling used -- many judges will push very hard on parties like this to sort out these smaller, non-dispositive issues (like when a deposition happens) via the mediator and then just tell the judge what they decided and he'll sign off on it.

What you're describing is a discovery conference, which typically takes place in front of a magistrate judge, in complex cases where the parties may need more time to discuss discovery issues than the trial judge has available. A mediation is where the parties make some attempt to settle the litigation. As I said, I have not practiced in federal court in NY but I have had litigation in federal court elsewhere. Typically mediation occurs shortly before trial, when the parties have had the benefit of full discovery. Perhaps the local court rules in NY are different.

It is standard in federal court for mediation to occur shortly after the first status hearing. It can last as little as 30 days but can go on longer if the parties are willing and the judge is amenable. I've seen federal judges also encourage settlement later in the process but because so many cases settle before or during discovery, it's not abnormal to get the first meeting with the mediator to happen fairly early on before depositions have occurred. Once depos happen, the narratives become much more set and it can be harder to negotiate a settlement when there's a lot of bad blood.

A discovery conference is a technical hearing and only works if the parties are willing to work together. In a case where the parties are at each others throats and using motions to punish each other by dragging out discovery negotiations, constantly accusing one another of violating court rules, trying to force the one another to rack up huge attorney fees, etc., a judge can ask the parties to mediate these issue with the court-appointed mediator rather than with him (or a magistrate judge). I have seen it in family law cases and a number of very contentious civil disputes including a big landlord-tenant action in federal court where the parties were absolutely vicious to each other and both hired super aggressive lawyers.

I don't know if it will happen here but I'm just pointing out it's not weird at all for them to be starting mediation now and that the PP who said they might discuss some aspects of discovery in mediation is not wrong. It can be incorporated depending on the nature of the case.