Blake Lively and Justin Baldoni: Process is scheduled to start next year

The date for the start of the court dispute between Blake Lively and Justin Baldoni has apparently been determined. But the disputed stars of “only once” (“It Ends with us”) have to wait over a year. The start of the trial was set on March 9, 2026. This emerges from documents from a New York court that are available.

On February 3 of this year, however, a court date is already on the program. It is about Blake Lively’s application to impose a news lock against Justin Baldoni’s lawyer Bryan Freedman. Lively’s representatives accuse him of piercing information about the press. Freedman rejects these allegations.

Blake Lively had sued Justin Baldoni in December 2024. She accuses the director and co-star of “only once” to have sexually harassed her on the set. In addition, Baldoni is said to have tried a coordinated campaign to damage Lively’s reputation in order to make your accusations unbelievable.

Justin Baldoni reacted with a counter -action in January 2025. Because of defamation, he demands compensation of $ 400 million by Blake Lively and her famous husband Ryan Reynolds. They are also said to have tried to take the artistic sovereignty over his film with their double star power. Among other things, he accuses the defendant a form of blackmail and the violation of his privacy.

Blake Lively’s representative reacted to this with a statement. “It is an ancient story: a woman speaks with concrete evidence of sexual harassment and retaliation, and the perpetrator tries to turn the spit over the victim,” it said, among other things.

So now a court will decide in a year – if the parties have not agreed out of court before. A delicate detail on the side: As reports “Variety”, judge Lewis L. Liman is the brother of the director Doug Liman. The “The Bourne Identity” maker turned a commercial for the electoral campaign of Barack Obama in 2008. Blake Lively also appeared in it.