Justin Baldoni has responded to Blake Energetic’s movement to dismiss his $400 million lawsuit in opposition to her.
Baldoni sued Energetic for defamation and different claims after she accused him of sexual harassment and orchestrating a retaliatory smear marketing campaign.
The Gossip Lady alum’s legal professionals referred to as Baldoni’s claims “vengeful and rambling” and an abuse of the authorized system, citing California Civil Code Part 47.1, which prohibits retaliatory lawsuits tied to public disclosures of sexual harassment.
Nevertheless, the Jane the Virgin star’s lawyer, Bryan Freedman, argues that Energetic’s movement to dismiss is an try and “discover that she is immune from any culpability for her wrongful acts.”
Freedman states that Baldoni’s grievance supplies particular claims of defamation in opposition to Energetic which might be “ample to defeat dismissal.”
Freedman tells Individuals journal, “Ms Energetic and her circle of Hollywood elites can not stop my shoppers from exercising their constitutional proper to petition the court docket to clear their names from her false and dangerous claims.”
He provides, “What Ms. Energetic is making an attempt to do is to set a harmful precedent by barring the courthouse doorways to my shoppers and punishing them for having their day in court docket, a proper protected by the First Modification.”
