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Blake Lively claims she's entitled to a mini trial for damages against Justin Baldoni - even though their case is settled.
The actress said that she wanted to call experts to quantify her losses from Baldoni’s failed $400 million defamation lawsuit against her in a hearing in federal court in Manhattan on Monday.
Her lawyers said that the sum she was seeking would be ‘very significant’ because of her reputational harm.
But Baldoni’s lawyers objected and said that it would amount to an ‘alternative trial’.
Even the judge at the court in New York appeared to be pleading with Lively to reconsider, telling her lawyers: ‘Your client does have the ability to end this’.
Lively wants her legal fees paid plus costs, along with triple damages and punitive damages on top.
During the hearing Lively’s lawyer Michael Gottlieb did not put an exact figure on the amount of damages they would be seeking.
However, they would need expert testimony to ‘quantify the reach of the allegation from the complaint [by Baldoni] that branded Miss Lively a lia
