Back in January, it took Justin Baldoni several weeks to file any kind of response to Blake Lively’s civil rights complaint and lawsuit. On January 16th, Baldoni filed a $400 million lawsuit against Blake, Ryan Reynolds, Blake’s publicist Leslie Sloane, and Sloane’s PR firm. Separately, and weeks earlier, Baldoni and his publicists sued the New York Times for defamation for their exclusive reporting, reporting entirely based on Blake and Leslie Sloane’s narratives. In the past three months or so, we’ve seen an enormous amount of public jockeying and narrative-building from both sides, as well as a slew of pre-trial legal filings. Well, something shocking has happened. Judge Lewis Liman has thrown out both of Baldoni’s lawsuits – the lawsuit against Blake & Ryan, and the lawsuit against

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