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Chanler

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343: BLAKE LIVELY VS. JUSTIN BALDONI PART 10! Judge Liman Guts Blake’s Case… So Why Is She Celebrating?

And I think these reasons are fascinating.

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343: BLAKE LIVELY VS. JUSTIN BALDONI PART 10! Judge Liman Guts Blake’s Case… So Why Is She Celebrating?

So I think the biggest thing here, one of the biggest things, is that she was an independent contractor.

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343: BLAKE LIVELY VS. JUSTIN BALDONI PART 10! Judge Liman Guts Blake’s Case… So Why Is She Celebrating?

Yes.

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343: BLAKE LIVELY VS. JUSTIN BALDONI PART 10! Judge Liman Guts Blake’s Case… So Why Is She Celebrating?

So apparently for sexual harassment to take place, you have to have someone you have to be a subordinate to an actual employer because an employer has a lot of power over their employees.

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343: BLAKE LIVELY VS. JUSTIN BALDONI PART 10! Judge Liman Guts Blake’s Case… So Why Is She Celebrating?

Employees depend on their employer to

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343: BLAKE LIVELY VS. JUSTIN BALDONI PART 10! Judge Liman Guts Blake’s Case… So Why Is She Celebrating?

basically live, right?

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343: BLAKE LIVELY VS. JUSTIN BALDONI PART 10! Judge Liman Guts Blake’s Case… So Why Is She Celebrating?

That's their livelihood is working for their employer.

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343: BLAKE LIVELY VS. JUSTIN BALDONI PART 10! Judge Liman Guts Blake’s Case… So Why Is She Celebrating?

So there is a very real power imbalance.

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343: BLAKE LIVELY VS. JUSTIN BALDONI PART 10! Judge Liman Guts Blake’s Case… So Why Is She Celebrating?

The power dynamic has to be there.

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343: BLAKE LIVELY VS. JUSTIN BALDONI PART 10! Judge Liman Guts Blake’s Case… So Why Is She Celebrating?

And if the power imbalance is not there, you don't get these protections under the law because the law is set out

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343: BLAKE LIVELY VS. JUSTIN BALDONI PART 10! Judge Liman Guts Blake’s Case… So Why Is She Celebrating?

To protect the vulnerable.

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343: BLAKE LIVELY VS. JUSTIN BALDONI PART 10! Judge Liman Guts Blake’s Case… So Why Is She Celebrating?

Right.

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343: BLAKE LIVELY VS. JUSTIN BALDONI PART 10! Judge Liman Guts Blake’s Case… So Why Is She Celebrating?

And so – and I think one thing that I heard – I listened to several podcasts on this.

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343: BLAKE LIVELY VS. JUSTIN BALDONI PART 10! Judge Liman Guts Blake’s Case… So Why Is She Celebrating?

I watched a lot of videos.

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343: BLAKE LIVELY VS. JUSTIN BALDONI PART 10! Judge Liman Guts Blake’s Case… So Why Is She Celebrating?

I read a lot of, like, posts from lawyers and everything.

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343: BLAKE LIVELY VS. JUSTIN BALDONI PART 10! Judge Liman Guts Blake’s Case… So Why Is She Celebrating?

I really tried to, like, let this information percolate.

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343: BLAKE LIVELY VS. JUSTIN BALDONI PART 10! Judge Liman Guts Blake’s Case… So Why Is She Celebrating?

One of the things, you know, one of these experts said is that the sexual harassment law is not really to, like –

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343: BLAKE LIVELY VS. JUSTIN BALDONI PART 10! Judge Liman Guts Blake’s Case… So Why Is She Celebrating?

It's not for people to litigate like, you know, just like disputes between themselves about if one person felt uncomfortable, if that makes sense.

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343: BLAKE LIVELY VS. JUSTIN BALDONI PART 10! Judge Liman Guts Blake’s Case… So Why Is She Celebrating?

It's about like somebody who is in a position of less power than another person and how they are protected by the law.

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343: BLAKE LIVELY VS. JUSTIN BALDONI PART 10! Judge Liman Guts Blake’s Case… So Why Is She Celebrating?

Yeah.