Blake Lively wants Justin Baldoni to pay millions of dollars for filing a frivolous defamation suit against her, in a test of a California law aimed at protecting sexual harassment victims who speak out.

Lively has accused Baldoni, her director and co-star, of sexually harassing her on the set of “It Ends With Us” and of retaliating against her for complaining about it by launching an online smear campaign. Baldoni responded with a $400 million defamation lawsuit in which he accused Lively of attempting to destroy his career with false allegations.

Judge Lewis Liman handed Lively a significant victory in June, when he dismissed Baldoni’s lawsuit. A trial on her allegations is on track for next spring in federal court in New York.

In a motion filed on Monday, Lively’s attorneys ar

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