Blake Lively Vs. Justin Baldoni's 'It Ends With Us' Trial Timeline

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Ever since It Ends With Us premiered in the fall of 2024, the movie’s cast has been embroiled in drama. And it sounds like the public dispute won’t be ending anytime soon. After co-stars Justin Baldoni and Blake Lively filed damning lawsuits against one another, a judge set their court date for mid-2026.

On Jan. 27, 2025, New York federal judge Lewis J. Liman ruled that Baldoni and Lively’s case will be taken to court. But a lot has developed in the year and change that’s passed since that initial ruling. At the very beginning of this legal battle, Lively’s team requested a gag order on Baldoni’s lawyer, who had been making several public comments and leaking footage from It Ends With Us. Most recently, Judg...