Originally appeared on E! Online

Justin Baldoni ’s legal journey has experienced a major setback.

Judge Lewis J. Liman granted a motion on June 9 to dismiss the $400 million countersuit filed by the "It Ends With Us" director and star — as well as Wayfarer Studios and several of its staff — against Blake Lively , Ryan Reynolds and their publicist Leslie Sloane, per documents obtained by E! News. Baldoni’s $250 million lawsuit against The New York Times has also been dismissed.

In his decision, Liman addresses two of the main arguments in Baldoni’s suit: first, “that Lively, assisted by Reynolds and Sloane, stole the film from Baldoni and Wayfarer, threatening to refuse to promote the film and attack Baldoni and Wayfarer in the press if the Wayfarer Parties did not agre

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