Originally appeared on E! Online

Justin Baldoni ’s legal journey has experienced a major setback.

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Judge Lewis J. Liman granted a motion on June 9 to dismiss the $400 million countersuit filed by the "It Ends With Us" director and star — as well as Wayfarer Studios and several of its staff — against Blake Lively , Ryan Reynolds and their publicist Leslie Sloane, per documents obtained by E! News. Baldoni’s $250 million lawsuit against The New York Times has also been dismissed.

In his decision, Liman addresses two of the main arguments in Baldoni’s suit: first, “that Lively, assisted by Reynolds and Sloane, stole the film from Baldoni and Wayfarer, threatening to refuse to promote the film and att

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