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You can't actually be suing in this jurisdiction.

So that's another problem with this case is that they're suing in a jurisdiction which has protections for independent contractors.

But it was, you know, the sexual harassment that took place happened in New Jersey.

And what I understand is that you can't pick and choose which jurisdiction you want to apply to your claims, obviously.

And then there really wasn't even enough evidence there to kind of justify that.

like her trying to switch the jurisdiction or saying, well, some things did happen in California, so the law should apply.

It just wasn't strong enough from the get-go to have California law cover it or any part of it.

And there isn't the same law in New Jersey in order to protect independent contractors.

And the judge also says, I think what's important about the summary judgment is that he really gets into kind of all of it, right?

So he talks about all of the micro moments.

It's pretty interesting to read, especially on page 111, because he gets into the dancing scene.

He literally says what he thinks about the dancing scene.

Yeah, which he thinks that they were acting, like they were within their creative spaces as their characters.

Yeah.

And that, you know, that they were not that Justin Baldoni was not acting in an inappropriate way towards Blake Lively personally.

Yeah.

He basically says, you know, that actors need to be able to feel that they have the creative license to work within the bounds of an agreed upon script and everything he did in that scene.

it was absolutely within what was written in the description on the script, right?

That they were lost in their own world.

It was a romantic moment.