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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]And more:  [url]https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/movies/story/2025-05-27/blake-lively-support-advocacy-groups-justin-baldoni-defamation-battle[/url]

"Asked about the briefs, a spokesperson for Lively said in a statement that Baldoni was “trying to end the nation’s only ‘MeToo’ law as ‘unconstitutional’” and accused him and his co-defendants of being “so focused on trying to harm Ms. Lively that they are willing to shred a law designed to protect all victims just to make sure they ‘bury’ one.’” The statement added that Lively 'will continue to use her voice to speak up for justice on behalf of herself and others.'
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"[Freedman and Baldoni's] position drew a sharp response from Victoria Burke, an attorney who helped push for AB 933 and is now leading efforts to pass similar legislation in 16 other states.

“I was highly disappointed with that move,” said Burke, who is filing her own amicus brief in the case. “He’s put himself out there as a feminist, and this undoes a lot of the good he had been doing. It just seemed cruel and unnecessary — to try to destroy a law that was designed to protect all survivors, just to go after one.”

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Dp. I posted before about well meaning laws posted by activists.

I happen to know one of the orgs quoted here fairly well.

I am pro Baldoni and someone who would likely be called a ‘feminist lawyer’ in real life… I work on gender issues and there are so many laws that started off trying to protect women, victims etc but end up being too broad, vague, etc and ultimately harmful. Happens all the time.
I can see this CA law being well meaning but ultimately not well drafted
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I am also a lawyer who has worked on VAWA issues for immigrant victims of domestic violence so I match your “feminist lawyer” cred and note that i have done that work, for which I have won Bar recognition, pro bono.

I hope the law CA will survive because abusers should not be able to use defamation suits to bankrupt their victims and scare them into settling.

This matches Baldoni’s actions here. Have he and his codefendants really suffered 400M in damages?  No, this is Freedman’s punitive effort to punish Lively and force a settlement, which has been clear from the beginning.

This also fully comports with Baldini’s MO during the filming and the subsequent smear. He’s a male feminist with rigid views over how all normal women give birth fully naked. (I did not, and I bet you didn’t either.)  He’s a male feminist who wanted to feel fully protected by his PR team in going after Lively — no bots because that might be detectable but something alone the lines of the smear conducted against Hailey Bieber is what he was after. He a male feminist who apparently believes this California law which was passed to protect victims of sexual harassment should be struck down as unconstitutional. I guess those victims don’t need quite that much protection, right, Justin?

Justin Baldini, male feminist, fighting hard to strike down protections for sexual harassment victims that took years to pass and here hard fought and hard won.

Maybe he can do a podcast about this. Justin Baldoni:  Enough. [/quote]

Washington Mom, did you really think your writing is not entirely recognizable at this point.[/quote]

Aw, gee, thanks, I feel like the Velveteen Rabbit who got loved into being Real to you finally.  Was it only this morning that you all thought I was a bot/paid shill?  *sheds single tear*[/quote]. No. Some of us still feel this way.[/quote]

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