Will Blake Lively vs. Justin Baldoni trial be televised? A legal expert weighs in as court date is set [Video]

20:51 EST 27 Jan 2025, updated 21:05 EST 27 Jan 2025

A legal expert has weighed in on the possibility of the Blake Lively vs. Justin Baldoni trial being televised.

Lively, 37, filed a complaint with California‘s Civil Rights Department, accusing her It Ends With Us co-star and director, Baldoni, 41, of sexual harassment and a subsequent smear campaign against her. 

The complaint has since escalated into a complex legal battle, after Baldoni has sued The New York Times in a $250 million defamation case, for publishing Lively’s allegations.

Lively then filed a lawsuit against Baldoni, two colleagues at his Wayfarer production company, and his publicists. Baldoni then sued Lively, her husband Ryan Reynolds, and their publicist, Leslie Sloane, alleging a smear campaign orchestrated by Lively to seize control of the film.

A pretrial court date has been set for February 12. Both cases in Lively v. Wayfarer Studios et al. will proceed to trial on March 9, …