Overview
- The notice of settlement, filed Wednesday in Manhattan federal court, preserves Lively’s motion under California Civil Code §47.1, a 2023 law that can award attorneys’ fees and treble and punitive damages to people sued after reporting harassment.
- Lively and Baldoni settled Monday less than two weeks before a May 18 trial, and multiple outlets report no money changed hands in the deal.
- Both sides waived any appeal in the settlement, leaving U.S. District Judge Lewis J. Liman to decide whether Lively recovers fees and enhanced damages.
- Lively’s request ties to her status as the prevailing defendant on Baldoni’s $400 million defamation countersuit, which Judge Liman dismissed in June 2025.
- Judge Liman’s April order cut 10 of Lively’s 13 claims and removed Baldoni as an individual defendant, narrowing the case that the late settlement kept from going to a public jury trial.