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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Not actually golden agrees the motion is odd given the case circumstances.   https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZP86WY8Cc/[/quote]

She gave Blake’s request for sanctions a 98% chance of failing.  Failing!![/quote]

Yeah, NAG didn’t think Liman would strike Freedman’s filings either and thought it was weird he did (and she oddly blamed Hudson for raising it in the first place when once again she was simply doing the perfectly normal thing of notifying a judge of related proceedings going on in a different jurisdiction!).  So while I actually agree that I don’t think Liman will grant sanctions on this motion, NAG’s 98% odds are not exactly something anyone should be placing bets on. [/quote]

I am increasingly skeptical of NAG. I also think it's a little odd that she is not very forthcoming with her legal credentials. I increasingly think she has quite limited experience with this kind of litigation and with federal court specifically. She's not totally off base most of the time, but sometimes her analysis is off in weird ways that make me think she's reading up on these issues before making her videos and doesn't full understand how it normally works, but claiming she does. She uses a lot of qualifiers and adopts this very specific tone to sort of cover herself, but I think she's been very wrong a few times lately.

Early on her analysis was more balanced and she made a sort of decided shift towards being more critical of Lively's legal team and complimentary of Freedman at some point. Not overwhelmingly so -- Freedman is a clever lawyer and Lively's team has made some unforced errors so it didn't jump out at me at the time. But increasingly I think that like a lot of creators, she recognizes there's more clicks and money in catering to the pro-JB side and this has led her to put out some weak analysis in order to give people what they want to hear (like saying this motion has a 98% chance of losing, which is a pretty crazy thing to say given that Liman has indicated he is losing patience with Wayfarer and Freedman -- I think the more likely thing is that he splits the baby, granting the motion but awarding very minimal fees so that he gets rid of this group pleading issue now but it's not like he's aggressively punishing Wayfarer for it).

NAG seems to increasingly be siding with Baldoni's lawyers on everything at a time in the litigation where I think Lively's team is executing some good procedural moves, even if her PR has not kept up at all.[/quote]

I agree with a lot of this.  I guess I could understand NAG shifting her perspective to support Baldoni more given that that's where a lot of her most rabid fans are.  I also agree with you that NAG sometimes really doesn't seem to know wtf she is talking about.  A letter to the judge to notify them of related proceedings is totally, totally normal, either in federal or state court.  It's a courtesy filing to your judge to let them know wtf is going on.  NAG "blaming" Lively for raising the issue in the first place is just flat out wrong and odd.

I don't think Liman is going to award sanctions to Lively here, though, and I sort of agree with some of the other comments that the sanctions motion could be seen as cluttering up the docket in a way that Liman won't really appreciate.  I hope I'm wrong!  At least Liman can tell that, given the safe harbor letters, this has been in the works for a while and isn't some emotional response to the Freedman affidavit last week.  Has Freedman sent his own safe harbor letters?  Anyway, I appreciate the sanction motion because I do think it might encourage Liman to dismiss with prejudice, since Freedman will now have failed to amend after multiple entreaties to do so., preferring instead to spend his time filing triple hearsay affidavits and talking to reporters about how he would like to sell tickets to Lively's deposition in a massive sports arena.  I don't think that's a good look for Freedman, but Baldoni fans really seem to like him so *shrug*  Anyway, in this way, even if Lively loses the motion, she might win the bigger battle.[/quote]

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