Judge Warns Justin Baldoni, Blake Lively Lawyers About Out-of-Court Statements

(Left) Actor/filmmaker Justin Baldoni speaks onstage at the Vital Voices 12th Annual Voices of Solidarity Awards at IAC Building in New York on Dec. 9, 2024. (Right) Blake Lively attends the "It Ends With Us" photocall at IET Building: Savoy Place in London on Aug. 8, 2024. Bryan Bedder/Getty Images for Vital Voices Global Partnership; Jeff Spicer/Getty Images for Sony Pictures

NEW YORK—A U.S. judge on Monday admonished lawyers for Justin Baldoni and Blake Lively not to publicly discuss the actors’ competing civil lawsuits stemming from Lively’s claim that Baldoni sexually harassed her while filming the movie “It Ends With Us.”

Lively’s lawyer Michael Gottlieb complained to U.S. District Judge Lewis Liman at a hearing in Manhattan federal court that Baldoni’s lawyer Bryan Freedman violated professional ethics rules for lawyers by accusing Lively of “bullying.”