Meltdown Over Patriotic UFC at White House, with Glenn Greenwald, and Justin Baldoni's Attorney Bryan Freedman Gives Exclusive Details of Settlement | Ep. 1339

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Hey, everyone, I'm Megyn Kelly. Welcome to The Megyn Kelly Show. Happy Monday on another very busy news day. Some incredible sports stories over the weekend. They even made their way into my lane, so you know they were big. From UFC Fight Night at the White House to the New York Knicks winning the NBA Championship. It's unbelievable. It's like, it's been almost, well, it's been over 50 years, incredibly. But we begin today with an exclusive here on The MK Show, and that is some breaking news and an exclusive document to reveal in the Justin Baldoni, Blake Lively saga. As we reported Friday, Judge Louis Lyman granting Blake Lively's request for attorneys fees on the defamation claim that was filed by Justin Baldoni against her. She sued him for sexual harassment. He counterclaimed for defamation. And she got that counterclaim dismissed before virtually all of her claims were dismissed. And under this weird California law, that entitles her potentially to attorneys fees. All right. It sounded like a like a victory, right? But remember that Baldoni's and the judge said, yes, you can have the fees to Blake Lively. But Baldoni's defamation claim was only active for less than five months. So that's just a small part of the 18 months of high price litigation between the parties. Justin Baldoni, on the other hand, got himself a major win on Friday when Judge Lyman denied Blake Lively's request for punitive damages against him. Damages meant to punish him or for a tripling of damages that she also argued she was entitled to when it comes to her actual sustained damages. So she had a couple of other categories of damages that she wanted him to pay her outside of her attorney's fees. And this judge said, it's a no.
Now as we've been reporting, Blake Lively's request, all of those requests for attorney's fees and these other damages was rooted in this California Civil Code 47.1, which is a law passed to protect victims of sexual harassment from being deterred to go public with their stories thanks to a powerful defendant who sues them for defamation. It's basically like you work for a man, you're going to claim sexual harassment by said man. The law is trying to discourage said man from trying to bully you out of filing that litigation with a defamation case against you. I mean, the whole thinking behind this provision, and we spoke with the woman who dreamed it up and architected it, was to protect less powerful women from more powerful men, or you could reverse the genders, depending on the situation, but the less powerful from the more powerful who use defamation in an effort to silence and make the whole process impossible. You tell me, who's more powerful, who's richer, who's better connected between Justin Baldoni, whose name you probably never heard of, unless you watched, was it Jane the Virgin, and Blake Lively, married to Ryan Reynolds, and at that time, best friends with Taylor Swift. Okay, so she misused this entire thing, but that's where we were, okay? This was never meant to protect multi-millionaire movie stars like Blake Lively, but she saw an opportunity, we heard that from the architect of the law herself, who came on this program and said, Blake's people came to her, the architect, and said, she wants to be the face of it. She wants to partner with you to take your law national, and she's going to show the world how she's an advocate for MeToo victims nationwide. And this woman said, stay the hell away from me and my law.
It's actually working out okay for some plaintiff or some women here in California, and I've gotten it passed in a couple of other states, and I don't want your help. You'll only draw negative attention to it. No one sees you as a MeToo victim. And she said, I didn't want her to Met Gala my law.