Blake's link to Judge Liman's brother REVEALED

Blake Lively’s courtroom triumph implicit Justin Baldoni has travel nether the radar aft societal media users uncovered a past transportation betwixt the histrion and the member of national Judge Lewis J Liman, who dismissed Baldoni's $400 cardinal lawsuit.On Monday, Judge Liman of the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York dismissed the 'It Ends With Us' director's defamation and extortion suit against Lively, her hubby Ryan Reynolds, and The New York Times.Judge Liman ruled that Lively’s statements were made wrong the bounds of ineligible privilege and could not service arsenic the ground for a defamation claim. However, soon aft the decision, societal media users began circulating a item that has since gone viral. The viral station claims that the justice is the member of Hollywood filmmaker Doug Liman, who directed Lively successful the past. The station claimed that the histrion was a teen erstwhile she worked with manager Doug successful a 2008 pro-Obama run advertisement for MoveOn.org. The advertisement besides featured Lively's Gossip Girl co-star Penn Badgley.

“FUN FACT: the justice that dismissed Justin Baldoni’s claims against Blake Lively is Lewis Liman, member to Doug Liman. Doug and Blake worked unneurotic years ago—small world,” wrote 1 idiosyncratic connected X, triggering a question of commentary and speculation.Some critics questioned a imaginable struggle of interest, contempt the little and indirect quality of the connection. “I don’t recognize however helium could preside then. That’s a struggle of interest, I’d assume,” 1 commenter wrote.

Others rapidly pushed back, arguing that the 2008 collaboration betwixt Lively and Doug Liman—a commercialized involving dozens of nationalist figures—hardly constituted grounds for judicial recusal. “You deliberation this justice would disregard a suit due to the fact that Blake did a COMMERCIAL with his brother? Lmfao,” 1 idiosyncratic replied.Judge Lewis J Liman, a Harvard and Yale Law School graduate, has served connected the national seat since 2019 pursuing a distinguished ineligible vocation that included clip arsenic a national authoritative and appellate part chief.

His member Doug has directed large workplace films including The Bourne Identity, Swingers, and Edge of Tomorrow.There is nary denotation astatine this clip of immoderate ceremonial struggle of involvement oregon morals violation. The justice has not commented connected the societal media reaction, and ineligible experts person noted that distant, nonrecreational overlaps involving household members are mostly not disqualifying—especially erstwhile nary ongoing oregon idiosyncratic narration exists.Lively celebrated the dismissal connected Monday with a nationalist statement, saying, “I’m much resolved than ever to proceed to basal for each woman’s close to person a dependable successful protecting themselves, including their safety, their integrity, their dignity, and their story,” she wrote.The judge, however, said Baldoni could revise the suit if helium wanted to prosecute antithetic claims related to whether Lively breached oregon interfered with a contract. His ineligible squad indicated it planned to bash so.