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Judge orders Justin Baldoni to pay Blake Lively approximately $400,000 of $8 million in requested legal fees
Federal Judge Lewis J. Liman ordered Justin Baldoni and Wayfarer Studios to pay Blake Lively approximately $400,000 in legal fees, a fraction of the $8 million she sought. The judge ruled that a California law protecting sexual harassment survivors from retaliatory lawsuits only covered fees related to defending against defamation claims, not all of Baldoni's counterclaims. Lively and Baldoni had settled their dispute in early May 2026, weeks before a scheduled trial.
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4 outlets covered it, splitting into 3 framing camps across 3 bias groups.
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3 bias groups
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Wall Street Journal
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Widest split · the two outlets furthest apart, and who published first
Furthest apart on this story
ABC News
Justin Baldoni ordered to pay Blake Lively nearly $400K in legal fees
brief factual report on payment order · neutral
NY Post
Blake Lively dealt humiliating blow after requesting $8M payout from Justin Baldoni
Lively's loss emphasized as humiliation · negative
By each outlet's earliest publish time in this story. Feeds that index slowly can appear later than they printed.
The split, in one line
AP and ABC frame the ruling as a straightforward partial award; the Post leads with humiliating blow, emphasizing how little Lively received versus what she sought.
How each outlet covered it
Lightly covered so far
Too few outlets to map a left-right split. Here is each take as it stands.
Sparse coverage · 3 outlets
APAP NewsCENTER
“Judge grants Blake Lively $400,000 of $8M in legal fees she sought in film fight with Justin Baldoni”
ABCABC NewsLEFT-CENTER17d ago
“Justin Baldoni ordered to pay Blake Lively nearly $400K in legal fees”
NYPNY PostRIGHT17d ago
“Blake Lively dealt humiliating blow after requesting $8M payout from Justin Baldoni”
6 tracked claims across 4 outlets
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Claimed
The judge ruled Lively was only entitled to fees for defending against defamation claims, not all of Baldoni's counterclaims
