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District Judge Lewis J. Liman rejected those theories in full, granting the motion to dismiss both the $400 million countersuit against Lively, Reynolds and others and the $250 million defamation claim against the Times.

Judge Lewis Liman on Monday dismissed Baldoni's countersuit, which alleged extortion, defamation and other allegations.

Most recently, Lively sought to dismiss a defamation countersuit from Baldoni.

After the settlement, Hill claimed on social media that Bauer “handed back an insurance sum to me that was meant for him in order for me to drop my countersuit.”

In a March 4 filing in federal court in New York, Lively’s attorneys argued that Baldoni’s countersuit is precisely the kind of retaliation that California’s new law was meant to prevent.