Laura Brodnick

So that all happened.

Everyone's like, okay, it's over.

It's done.

Everyone's moving on.

But a week later, Blake Lively is back in the headlines for the same case, and apparently there's an angry judge involved, according to TMZ, who has unearthed a bunch of documents from the case.

Yeah.

So according to TMZ, who has, through a Freedom of Information Act, got these legal documents from the case, they say the federal judge who is presiding over Blake Lively and Justin Baldoni, like the last part of their settlement, has told Blake Lively that she doesn't need to supply any additional briefs before he makes a final decision on any fees or damages that are outstanding.

Okay.

Now, that doesn't sound like a big deal.

It sounds like just a tiny little legal thing of saying like, but the way it's been framed in the public eye is that the tired judge, nowhere in these court documents, which I've had a look at too, it doesn't say the judge is tired, frustrated, angry.

That's all been added in the headlines.

I was reading a lot of them like, oh, interesting.

The poor judge who was in tears.

Exactly, is saying that Blake Lively, apparently her team is like trying to put forward more information to the judges so they don't need any more.

So what's happened is Blake Lively is still claiming under Californian law that she's entitled to receive damages and legal fees as the winning party against Justin Baldoni's defamation suit, which she insists was filed in retaliation to her sexual harassment lawsuit.

So that was at the time where she sued him and then he sued her and that was later dismissed.

And her legal team is saying that she has owed the fees and damages under a Californian law, which was created to protect sexual abuse accusers from retaliatory claims.

So basically that if you put forward a claim like this that is about sexual assault or abuse or anything like that in the workplace or any other circumstance, that if the case is dismissed or you're found not guilty, then you are able to get those legal fees back.

So that means that people who put forward claims or who someone countersues them aren't then hit with huge legal fees, if that makes sense.

It's basically to protect people from coming forward with accusations like this.