Chanler

Yes.

So, Alexandra Shapiro and Jonathan Bach, two of his attorneys, said they were pleased Judge Lehman dismissed the sexual harassment claims.

They say they were...

These were very serious allegations and we're grateful to the court for its careful review of the facts, law, and voluminous evidence that was provided.

What's left is a significantly narrowed case and we look forward to presenting our defense to the remaining claims in court.

Brian Friedman is also weighed in, saying that the defense in this case are not afraid of the truth.

The plan is not only to speak the truth, but also to show...

that same truth over and over again through the presentation of actual evidence it is gratifying to see the court's ruling confirms what the legal team believed from day one so we know that they had a settlement conference i believe yesterday after this ruling came out um i think the magistrate judge kind of said okay now that you know the dust is settled and these are the claims that are actually going forward in the trial

You know, let's come together and see if you can settle again, because this is a very different trial than it was before this ruling came out.

I don't think they reached anything.

You know, we didn't hear back.

And the trial is still set to move forward May 18th based on these three claims that are still left.

Yeah.

And I think what's going to be difficult for Blake is that.

you know her case really rests on the idea that they concocted this full smear campaign and i do think he has the very credible defense that he saw that she was going to try to paint him as an abuser and a harasser based on the implicit threats in the list of demands to go back to set and he hired

crisis PR.

When he saw the entire cast siding with Blake Lively, when he was in the basement during the premiere, he knew what was happening.

What was coming down the pipeline.

Yeah, he knew that people were going to deduce that they were not on good terms.

And so...