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All right, now back to the story.

And this is what I've been looking forward to all day.

I am so excited.

Let's go through all of the reasons why Judge Lehman says that Blake Lively's claims will not hold up in court.

All right, so in regards to the uncomfortable circumcision conversation that allegedly happened between Blake and Justin that she claimed was so uncomfortable and perverse, Judge Lehman said...

that when Lively first met with Baldoni in December of 2022 to discuss possibly participating in the film, Baldoni told Lively, who was pregnant with her first boy at the time, that he was circumcised.

Lively found the disclosure uncomfortable and unnecessary, but it occurred in the context of a discussion about the, quote, "...different medical decisions people make these days, including circumcision for male babies."

A topic that Lively herself might have introduced.

More importantly, it occurred before she started working on the film.

It therefore could not have created a hostile work environment.

Any incidents giving rise to the hostile work environment claim must have occurred during the plaintiff's employment.

Now again, it is totally fine and fair to call this a technicality if you want, but that technicality is important because it was before they even started working together.

Sie hatten diese Konversation, bevor sie sich eingeladen hat.

Sie hätte diese Konversation gehabt, wenn es so seltsam war, so furchtbar, so pervers.

Sie sollte weggegangen sein.

Aber stattdessen hat sie sich mit ihm eingeladen.

Und jetzt ist sie zurücktrittend und sagt, oh, ich war so unangenehm.

Dann warum hast du mit ihm zu machen, um einen Film mit ihm zu machen?

Entschuldige, ich bin schon überrascht.