Blake Liveli and Justin Baldoni’s lawyers sparked during the first hearing

Actors’ lawyers Justin Baldoni and Blake Lively spent their first day in court, sparring for sexual harassment and other claims that broke out around their movie, he ends with us.

In December, Lively filed a legal appeal against Baldoni, accusing him of sexual harassment and launching a campaign to spread against her. Baldoni denied her allegations and in response to her on various grounds, including slander.

Film stars were not required to attend a preliminary meeting at the Manhattan Federal Court on Monday.

But hearing an hour and a half is still ignited, as lawyers for each country claim that the other is based on their client outside the court.

The case “should be resolved here in court,” Lively’s lawyer, Michael Gotlib before Jude Lewis Liman, told. “Should not be allowed in the press.”

G -H Gottlib accused Baldoni’s lawyer Brian Friedman of making “inflammatory out -of -court comments about Lively’s” character and motives “during news channels.

In response, Friedman said that G -n Gotlib was trying to impose a “bluff order”, preventing him from talking to the media. Baldoni, he said, is the one who has suffered his reputation.

“My client is devastated financially and emotionally,” Friedman told the court.

Based on Colin Hoover’s novel, he ends up with us, became a hit at the box office after being released in August. But despite their financial success, rumors of a bitter feud between the Baldoni and Liveli began to rotate before the movie was even released.

Both sides in the legitimate battles “gave the public to feast,” Judge Liman said in court on Monday.

He said that if the case was ultimately “agreement in the press”, he could be forced to move to the date of examination on March 2026 so that the jurors would not be predisposed to any of the defendants.

The judge also stated that he would adopt a measure of the Bar Association in New York – Rule 3.6 – that it publicly impeded the lawyers who could benefit from the result of the process.

The hearing on Monday came after Baldoni filed a modified complaint against Lively, which included a “time line” of the events of 168 pages in the case. His team also released a website with the new complaint, as well as other publicly available videos and text messages around the case.

Lively’s lawyer raised the website in court on Monday. “Who created the website?” Asked Ga Gottlib. “Who funds it?”

Mr Gottlieb also undertook the startingrs that Baldoni released from a romantic scene in it ends with us, which in his opinion proves that Lively’s allegations of sexual harassment are unfounded.

But Leili replied, saying that the couple’s footage, which shoots a slow dance scene, were “damn” and confirm her claims.

The Lively team on Monday promised to file its own complaint, which will include even more people in the case.

Several other parties are already woven into legal drama. Baldoni is suing the New York Times for slander, claiming that his co-star has granted outlet access to his complaint for civil rights. The Times was the first story she published about her suit last December. The New York Times has denied these claims.

Several public relations companies that worked with Baldon and Liveli during their film are also defendants in the case.

Some of these issues will be addressed in a separate process after Livli and Baldoni, Judge Liman said on Monday.

He also said that Baldoni and Liveli’s legal teams will have to agree to a defense order, a legal document that protects the people involved in the case by another person accused of abuse or harassment.

A similar order is necessary, said Judge Limann because of the “significant number of high -ranking individuals” in the case and the “nature of the accusations”.

During the hearing, the Baldoni lawyer also pressed the judge to stick to the pre-trial schedule that both parties suggested, stating that his client wanted the case to progress “as quickly as possible”.

Judge Liman agreed to the request of Baldoni’s lawyer with a few small changes to the schedule.

“There will come a time when the jurors will talk about this,” Judge Liman told the court.