Blake Lively wins motion to strike Taylor Swift text threat allegations in Justin Baldoni legal war

Blake Lively just scored a small victory in her ongoing battle with Justin Baldoni.Judge Lewis J.Liman has signed off on the actress’ motion to strike the claims that her lead attorney, Mike Gottlieb, allegedly threatened to release Taylor Swift’s private text messages if the singer didn’t publicly support Lively in the “It Ends With Us” legal war, The Post can confirm.

Her motion was granted on Thursday, May 15, just hours after Gottlieb shot down the accusations, which Baldoni’s attorney, Bryan Freedman, claimed came from an anonymous source.“It took the court less than 24 hours to see through Mr.Freedman’s irrelevant, improper and inflammatory accusations, strike them, remove them from the court and warn Mr.

Freedman that further misconduct may be met with sanctions,” a spokesperson for Lively told The Post.On Wednesday, the “A Simple Favor” star’s legal team filed a motion demanding that Freedman’s letter to the judge with the damning allegations be stricken from the court.Judge Liman agreed, calling the legal filing “improper” and “irrelevant” to the case in the document obtained by The Post.

“The motion is made pursuant to the Court’s inherent power to prevent abusive or improperuse of its docket,” the doc read.The order found that the sole purpose of the letter was to “promote public scandal by advancing inflammatory accusations, on information and belief, against Lively and her counsel,” adding the document invited a “press uproar by suggesting that Lively and her counsel attempted to ‘extort’ a well-known celebrity.” Judge Liman made it clear that “retaining the Letter on the docket would be of no use to the Court and would allow the Court’s docket to serve as a ‘reservoir[] of libelous statements for press consumption.'”The Post reached out to Freedman for comment.

Baldoni’s attorney made waves when he claimed that not only did Gottlieb allegedly threaten to expose Swift’s texts if the ...