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After nearly a year of multiple lawsuits filed against one another, part of Blake Lively and Justin Baldoni’s post-It Ends With Us legal battle has come to an end.

As first reported by PEOPLE, Baldoni’s $400 million defamation countersuit against Lively and Ryan Reynolds was ended by U.S. District Court Judge Lewis Liman. The ruling ended up in favor of the latter after the It Ends With Us director and his production company, Wayfarer Studios, failed to file any further amended complaints before the deadline set by the judge after the case was dismissed in June.

In the lawsuit document, Lively was reportedly the only one to respond to the judge’s request to both parties to close the case completely. In addition to the director losing the legal battle, the judge agreed to Lively’s request for Baldoni to cover her legal fees which, as of the time of writing, the It Ends With Us filmmaker has not exercised his right to appeal the judgment.

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