1st Amendment Lawyer Breaks Down Justin Baldoni's Case Against The New York Times & How Strong It Is

[@kimberleyharris2624]

Also we should not forget that the NYT had a copy of this civil complaint long before they published the article. Therefore, they would have had ample time to do due diligence and chose not to. That shows malice.

[@Tracy_Pierce]

Well when all is said and done, any movie Blake and Ryan are in now, I will be boycotting. I cannot abide bullies and those that abuse their power

[@jtrain5615]

Same

[@AlphaSorceror]

I will support because I like Deadpool. Their disagreements are their own. I just like my entertainment

[@coffeemug3009]

Deadpool Yes, Ryan Reynolds in other film projects - NO. He is a one trick pony and without deadpool he is nothing.

[@rr1621]

He was awesome in the rom com " the "proposal"

[@jtrain5615]

@@rr1621 But Ryan's easy-going image is now forever tarnished (IMO.) The curtain has been pulled back and we see the real Ryan. He and Blake should drop all this and settle with Justin privately.

[@ivonneguerinoni3881]

I hope Justin B win all the lawsuits against all this powerful and corrupts

[@sereinserenity2293]

I don't need PR smear campaign from anyone to know that Blake has issues with herself. Seen her interviews so many times when she tried so hard to be quirky but failed. Instead being likable she presenting herself as rude and way over the top. Her co-actors often times looked uncomfortable around her during interviews too. It was clear to see all of that. For so many years people glossing over her nasty behaviours thanks to her hubby, Ryan & her team. But now there's no way to save her public image. And without seeing evidence presented by Justin's lawyer I knew many of her complaints were ridiculous. Someone who took an honest compliment as an insult? Yeah, definitely something is wrong with her. The way she percieve things is way too off.

[@carol-l8u]

Call it like it is. 👍👍👍

[@smakkdat]

Right? When Blake actually had the audacity to take offense with that one interviewer congratulating her on her “baby bump” you can just imagine how she may have falsely perceived Justin’s words or body language as s..x..l harrasment.

[@LittleCreationsETH]

As someone who has followed his career and read his books, like Boys Will Be Human, I was honestly shocked to see the allegations in the NYT article. It’s upsetting to think that such serious accusations of sexual harassment could be published without proper verification, especially when they can destroy someone’s life, family, and reputation. Calumny isn’t just an injustice to one person-it damages trust and the moral fabric of society as a whole. I’m relieved his lawyer stepped in to bring some clarity to the situation. I know legal battles in the USA can be expensive, but I really hope Justin sues the couples and doesn’t settle this out of court.

[@ambercason5100]

Blake wants to release some of the texts. Justin wants to release ALL of the texts. There’s your answer.

[@soniap5708]

Justice for Baldoni

[@AlphaSorceror]

@@soniap5708 how do we know he’s innocent based on videos? I think they are both PR addicts

[@ICU-r4b]

TEAM JUSTIN ❤

[@crystalnavarro8012]

She is seriously evil never Fake Lively so done with her a total narc.

[@moiraohara]

“Fake Lively”😂

[@ZhusiKuqi]

How can she want a movie rights to a book She never read ?! 😂

[@moiraohara]

She doesn’t drink alcohol but owns an alcoholic beverage company.

[@Daniela-Christianson]

😂 Great analogy. She loves to brag that she doesn't drink 🙄 ​@@moiraohara

[@nopeimnotsorry9472]

@@moiraohara quite hypocritical, don’t ya think? How can you say you know your product & say your product is great without drinking it? 😂

[@bananabread7707]

@@moiraohara funny when she talks as if she’s always drunk

[@ColoradoMntn1222]

What stands out to me about this case is the allegedly doctored text messages. The publishing of sensational and often patently false stories about a celebrity or political figure is normal for many publications who seem to get away with posting drivel regularly and without remorse. I could be completely wrong, but I sincerely doubt that NYT is held to different standards under the law than The National Enquirer. Is posting crap information bad journalism? Yeah, it is. But then again, not everything is okay to publish, either. I don't know a lot about those laws, so this is really interesting. While on the subject of The First Amendment, what irked me about Lively's lawsuit was that she referenced so many small and independent journalists/social media content creators, who had organically formed negative opinions about some of Lively's remarks and behaviors during the movie press tour that many found to be hurtful and disrespectful to survivors of DV. Lively's singling-out of content created freely and in response to her own behavior (which was not meant to ruin her life, but rather to inspire a greater level of respect and kindness towards the target audience for the movie she was promoting) really seemed to me like she wanted to stop people from speaking freely about her or her actions. I know there is absolutely no way anyone could legally make this claim, but it's an observation from a civilian about a member of the elite feeling entitled to positive regard from the public. Thanks for the interview, and thank you to everyone who protects The First Amendment!

[@chatnoir60609]

👏👏👏 My feelings exactly. She willingly decided not to address and actually to deny her responsability in her image downfall, worst of starts for a SH lawsuit. She should've never combined both. If she would've shown herself as valuable ally for women I'm sure the public would've listened but her approach has been 100% damaging, for herself and for real victims of DV and SH

[@denlpz81]

Her image was damaged after the interview with Krjiesti Flaa. Everything came down after that. More videos have resurfaced and they are not fake, like blake ‘s texts shown in the NYT

[@Ailenna]

I want the Truth and the Facts on both sides

[@RadiantStar8997]

Yep. Facts from both sides please. Just because BL comes across as rude and entitled in her interviews doesn't mean she doesn't have a case stemming from incidents that really happened from JB.

[@carol-l8u]

@RadiantStar8997 If she had facts, why would she be putting out fake information and altered information? Now everything she says and claims is in question. She puts out texts, we have to assume they are altered and manipulated because if she had real evidence, she would have put that out instead of false stuff. She hasn't just not put anything out, she's put plenty out, it just keeps being shown to be lies and manipulations.

[@RadiantStar8997]

@@carol-l8u Oh! I didn't know it was 'fake.'

[@Rebecca-GLaines]

Yes. Theyre CHERRY PICKED messages slandered his character. Thats malace all in its own. The intent was to harm. It did. Hell, even the TITTLE says malace!

[@mariecontreras8234]

I looked at all of Blake lively interview she was very rude to all reporters all joke about domestic violence.

[@windspiel824]

Thank you for your report. Well explained. BL had all the power on the set. I think NYT hasn‘t done due dilligence. Proof, which is out by now is not in her favour. BL has behaved in several occasions without respect towards others and walked „over them“: condescending jokes about her collegues (she called them monkeys), not validating victims of DV and saying she didn‘t believe Woody Allens daughter, beeing aggressive towards an interviewer. This doesn‘t Look good in the public eye. The rest we‘ll See in court .

[@janet8182]

Blake is entitled to be offended by the said videos or some behaviors from Justin Baldoni and the Wayfarer CEO, but I do not think these complaints from Blake warrant a formal complaint to the California authority or lawsuit to damage Baldwin's career. Hope this serve as a sharp warning to studios and producers in Hollywood and advertisers to avoid working with them in future.

[@coffeemug3009]

Imagine you have baby and Blake lively simply steal it from you because she's so desperate to be more famous than she's already is now.

[@denlpz81]

Blake was the first starting the smear campaign with sony and the rest of the cast

[@anthearichter]

Hope Baldoni win

[@MarcieBarnard]

Look what happened to Amber’s career! Looks like a ditto Blake😢

[@Ideas336]

It is a strong case!

[@Airships]

Mr. Golderg is (surprisingly) incorrect when he states (at 3:38 ) that the Times would lose the case if the Plaintiff can show that the Times "should have known that what they were writing was wrong." That is a negligence standard, but the applicable Times v. Sullivan standard is not negligence but recklessness, specifically: "reckless disregard of whether it was false or not." New York Times Co. v. Sullivan, 376 U.S. 254 (1964). Later in the interview though he does mention recklessness ( 5:36).

[@denlpz81]

Wouldn’t they write an errata once shown they made a mistake? If they are not doing that, then they stand by those words so they should be punished for it.

[@susy590]

Intent and negligence have taken a beating in frivolous lawsuits recently. But the New York Times has been less than honorable in their reporting for some time now. Competing with Internet news has caused them to compromise their principles. And that's the quickest way to hit rock bottom.

[@Daniela-Christianson]

​@@denlpz81That would make no one trust the NYT again, but it doesn't help the injured party much

[@qigoddess339]

My question is, why would the NYT put a misleading, cherry-picked article out? What do they have to gain?

[@snsmystic]

Because they want clout and power behind them. Their ego got in the way of truth.

[@tammilee4840]

Blake knows her power…. Her and her PR team reached out to NYT. The same journalist who broke the Harvey Weinstein article on the “me too” movement is the same person who wrote the very biased unverified cherry-picked article, hoping to create a narrative to destroy Justin. I also think the journalist did it for a personal gain for her resume and recognition.

[@sukanya662]

They wanted to be 1st to get out there breaking news.

[@qigoddess339]

@ is it worth being sued for $250 million? That’s a risky move, I’d imagine they spoke to their attorneys before they published to make sure the they covered themselves.

[@9395gb]

Allegedly Blake's pr reps are friends with some of the journalists at the NY Times. Again thats alleged and the word on the street. Also suing a paper for defamation isn't easy so maybe they didn't expect a lawsuit or are not concerned about one and planning on it getting dismissed.

[@talliecanspeak]

Unless she publishes a retraction and apology that she made up this whole thing, his career may be over. Sadly.

[@adelaferreira4575]

I don’t think so ,he didn’t do anything wrong he didn’t smear her reputation,she did,she hijacked his movie ,she is known to be a difficult actress to work with,she is hiding behind her husband power and money,but she is known to be a bully her career maybe the one that’s over ,but we know how corrupted the system is !

[@MsKathiJo]

I don’t think so. No one is buying her crap.

[@liannghawrthawnthute]

Team Justin Baldoni #JusticeforJustinBaldoni

[@carol-l8u]

Since the NYT was working on this so called story for a long time and they purposely manipulated a situation where it would be likely he wouldn't see it at all before their unreasonable deadline, or if he did see it, he wouldn't have time to respond properly and when they did get a response making it clear the allegations were false, they jumped and published it without looking further into it. It's clear they had no intention of doing anything but publishing a false and biased story, everything else was going through the motions. The also altered text, or Blake Lively altered text, and if they had all this info, pages and pages like they said, they would see it was out of context if they really had checked it out. The only other alternative is Blake Lively gave them manufactured messages and they didn't bother checking out the validity of that material. Its very clear they intended to put out the false information no matter what and they did it purposely. They want to call themselves journalists, they need to do the work of journalists. Totally immoral.

[@michellebjork5521]

The news paper itself seems horribly biased.

[@elfe441]

They are always of the side of power

[@treasuretrovel3816]

The bias is deep and the toxic feminists who work there love nothing better than a me-too story that can ruin a man's reputation and career-- There is a certain type of woman who thrives on this.

[@OneONoneShowcase-zx2vg]

Justice for Justin

[@MB-ng9ci]

Well well who likes Blake lively and Ryan R? Not Me

[@Fernando-fr5cu]

I cancelled my NYT subscription because of this.

[@Trenchant468]

I wonder how much legal traction Baldoni‘s lawyers can get from the fact that they disputed the facts, but we were deprived of an opportunity to provide contrary information because the request for a response was made late on a Friday night and then went to publication two hours prior to the deadline.

[@Kay73849]

I feel like the malice also comes because they posted the article before deadline for Justin’s team to actually reply. They posted at 10 AM but gave, Justin’s team until noon to reply.

[@joyous99999]

Timeline is wrong. He filled suit against nyt was before hers in nyc

[@HawaiianSkies]

Lol. No. He had to respond to her civil suit. She filed first.

[@9395gb]

​@HawaiianSkies no. The poster is correct. She filed a labor complaint in the civil rights dept of California. A labor complaint is not a lawsuit. About a week later he filed a lawsuit against the NY Times and then 3 hours later on the same day, she filed a formal lawsuit against him in federal court.

[@sereinserenity2293]

​@@9395gb Correct

[@ltcharma]

Ill sign a boycott petition of BL

[@JnTmarie]

I want to see Justin’s edited version of the film without Blake taking over!!!!!! It was his project. Even though the writer cowed to the power play of Sony and big Hollywood hijacking the project. The proof is in the end treatment of Justin Can’t imagine losing a project you worked on for years and you don’t get to edit and present it yourself. Looks like malice on Blake’s side by the insensitive way she just took over and felt right to be so dismissive and Sony fell for it. They are at fault too. Let’s not leave them out. This looks like a power play from big Hollywood Blake and Ryan over Justin. I am an advocate for women because so many times women are mistreated but this time looks like Blake mistreated Justin. Disgusting.

[@priyadsh]

These guys put him up as first amendment lawyer and the first thing he says is my expertise isnt first amendment law 😂😂

[@tod3msn]

Very poor explanation and a lot of waffling.

[@oohlalaa2390]

He said NOTHING 🥲

[@ChrissyCAGirl]

The first thing this lawyer says is - I’m not a First Amendment lawyer. Doesn’t match the title.

[@homladove]

I'm glad NYT is being held to account!

[@amclairmont]

According to legal documents, the NYT received a response from the Baldoni camp around 2am, which is why they ran the story at 10am.

[@meaghan492]

I agree with Kevin Goldberg - it’s less about what the Times included in their article about Justin legally, as much as it’s about what they DIDN’T include. The text messages between PR people that were the crux of the NYT narrative - made zero mention of Blake’s PR person (Leslie Sloane) or Stephanie Jones, whose PR firm was bleeding clients, one of whom was Justin Baldoni, who was going to be represented by a new firm founded by her former employee Jennifer Abel. She confiscated Abel’s phone for the purpose of finding damaging info on there, and worked with Blake Lively’s PR and the NYT to tell a story that says they reviewed “thousands of pages of documents” but never mentions their names, or their existence at all. Did Jones provide the Times with only pre cherry picked and partially excised exchanges to deliberately paint a misleading picture that would tell a story that would be headline bombshell piece for the Times, revive Lively’s reputation that was suffering due to her flippant approach to press for a movie about DV, and Baldoni’s former jilted P.R. rep who just lost Jeff Bezos and Tom Brady as clients and wanted to take her former employee down with him? I think the Times could have pieced that together…. not rocket science, especially for the Times who know exactly how the PR game is played. If only for the purpose of getting his side of things out there, I think it’s good Baldoni brought this suit - and I actually think he may have a case (though the bar for a defamation of a public figure is very high). Lively’s harassment suit reads like a workaround to tell us about how she’s been the victim of a PR smear campaign, and that it’s not about the harassment itself, which doesn’t hold up.

[@zandersmiranda9256]

So how can Justin defend himself when she made the accusations first. This isn't justice for him when his career is over

[@ysteinfjr7529]

Justin Baldoni & co are absolutely defending himself with the lawsuit against NYT, and more is to come.

[@vickyaugust1598]

He needs to win

[@ChristopherPama-z3y]

Most legal people are saying it has little chance of winning

[@denlpz81]

Maybe the whole 250 mill but he certainly win some, out of court of course.

[@LuchoVega68]

It’s not about winning the case against the NYT, its intended to bring out all facts which will help Baldoni against Lively. The NYT will be forced to release all communications with Lively and Reynolds and their process of how they got the scoop.

[@tyoung9170]

Johnny Depp

[@e.a.6988]

Would anyone dare to talk about SLAPP suit in this case?

[@brendamahlangu4443]

The new York times was 💯 wrong 🚮🚮

[@MsKathiJo]

When Blake Lively says “Me too” I imagine she’s saying she’s another Amber Heard.

[@gemxi8033]

Honestly, if they dont sue BL nothing makes sense...its like you robed a bank, the bank reports you, you go to jail and then you sue the news outlets that reported about you and not the bank that alerted the police. The only flaw I see on Times is that Ive seen them introduce corrections at the bottom, they state the date and add a note or something saying "on such date/such time, Baldoni spoke to the Times and said blahblah", they didnt do that for this article. They couldve done a separate article just for Justin and put it out the next day...they didnt do that either. However, how much can you tell a news publication how to do their job? And what kind of precedent does it sets for matters more important than two celebrities angry at eachother? To me JB and co. acted like creeps to BL and then she turned around and weaponized that against them to extort them for more power in the production; none of their ways of acting was right. This isnt about safety or womens right.

[@lilianaprina5991]

What exactly had The New York Times done, it's not clear. It was an article written about him or it was just questions giving during a reporter actor interview???? I do understand the lawsuit.

[@adrienneclarke3953]

The interview with GossipGirl about Monkeys... that's not the worst. It is Blakes comment about cages since Leighton was born in a prison hospital.

[@ivonneguerinoni3881]

A lot of chat and he don t answer

[@Kriner917]

If you read the article, you definitely think he is a monster.

[@FlavioMarceloSousa35]

Terrible, unethical journalism, shame on the NYT.

[@ryanhau1073]

If Baldoni was defamed, think better time, money, and effort to sue specifically Lively, mostly because Lively would have Actual Malice that is provable when compared to the NYT writers

[@phuongthaolee4100]

I think if he sued her before she sued him, the public might hound him for retaliation..so strategically suing the nyt is his way of being to get his pov out..then when bl filed her lawsuit, he can now countersue.

[@melaniehayes1387]

I don't think it's defamation, just bad on journalism. No surprise, Times should have gotten a statement from baldoni. But that wouldn't have helped push their bs believe all women.

[@ltcharma]

Sounds just like Johnny Depp

[@Gun4Hire888]

blake and ryan are both mean girls *and scabs* ? Can you look into that rumor abt him re-writing lines during the writers strike?

[@mikawest1234]

This lawyer has a crush on Lively. Or hasn’t read a line from the documents.

[@donnyscallz]

I always knew Ryan Reynolds was a douche. Blake Too , but that was easy.

[@MariadoRosárioLima-o7q]

🙏💙💙😇🇱🇷🌏👍

[@yiansaechao2251]

JUSTIN HAVE PROOFS against Blake...!! he will WIN THE CASE AGAINST THE BULLIES BLAKE & RR..& i bet there will be marriage troubles between RR & Blake😅😅 RR will blame Blake for his downfall😅😅😅😅 #TEAMJUSTIN😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊

[@RKasi]

Phony Baloney Baldoni 💯😂

[@sukanya662]

Damaged control for a fake American sweetheart couple.

[@robintay1449]

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[@RKasi]

The guy is a creep. His own hired goons said the same thing !! 🤣

[@adelaferreira4575]

No he is not ,but she is a known bully in Hollywood for quite a while now !

[@thecommonrue1405]

Blake the homewreker....

[@KO-im6sm]

Team Blake. He is a perp