Lively v. Baldoni 7 - Who’s Afraid of Stephanie Jones? Well, Abel et al. Probably Should Be...
Release Date: 03/21/2025
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Gavelheads, it's here! Stephanie Jones's lawyers - Kristin Tahler and Maaren Shah - join us to discuss what Jones v Abel is really about! While we have them, we get their take on the utilization of Doe lawsuits in litigation, and dive deep into third-party subpoenas. After filing a couple third-party subpoenas meant to illuminate information related to who created the allegedly defamatory website and various social media accounts associated, an unexpected objection entered the docket. What might that mean? Support the show, get rid of ads, and get bonus stuff over on
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It's our final catch up on the Jones v. Abel docket before we have Stephanie Jones's lawyers on! MJ is back to break down this one. It's very business-y and contract-y and that's just what MJ Morley probably knows best! Does Wayfarer have any chance at these counterclaims against Jones and Jonesworks? Find out!
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There's lot of copy and paste in this one, but also some realllly interesting stuff. How is Wayfarer going to defend themselves against Stephanie Jones' incredibly straightforward and coherent case?
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This will conclude Jen Abel's countercomplaint. Next, we'll be onto Wayfarer's countercomplaint!
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We're so lucky to have MJ Morley () back on the show, this time to give us the legal breakdown of Jen Abel's counterclaims against Stephanie Jones and Jonesworks!
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It's part 3 of Jen Abel's countercomplaint against Jones and Jonesworks!
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We're in our alternate timeline to catch up on the bustling Jones v. Abel docket! It's part 2 of Jen Abel's Countersuit against Jones and Jonesworks.
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*RECORD SCRATCH* Hey folks. We had to do a bit of a pivot for a really cool reason. That reason is, we're going to be interviewing Stephanie Jones' lawyers. But in order to do that, we need to catch you up on the Jones v. Abel docket. But that's still also good news, because this docket is really fascinating and honestly pretty fun to analyze. We tell you more about it in the outro to this episode, but expect chunks and chunks coming your way! So this is us jumping into an alternate timeline to catch up on the bustling Jones v. Abel docket! We've already broken down Stephanie Jones's side of...
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GG22 - We're taking a slight detour from our docket order to bring you a very interesting resolution to the subpoena mystery. MJ Morley was kind enough to take us through it, AND give us some breaking news that possibly no one else has discovered!
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GG21 - Part 21 of LvB is Part 11 of Wayfarer et al v The New York Times The FINAL part of Baldoni et al v. NYT! FINALLLY. Attorney Anne Linder takes us through the final 3 causes of action.
info_outlineWhile the It Ends with Us controversy carried out in front of the world, there was significant drama behind-the-scenes in the PR world, culminating in a breach of contract lawsuit filed against Jennifer Abel, Melissa Nathan, Justin Baldoni, and Wayfarer Studios. Lydia kicks off the episode with some background on the Plaintiffs in that suit - Stephanie Jones and Jonesworks - before we dive head first into the complaint that honestly not enough people are talking about that could have tremendous implications for the other lawsuits in this ordeal: Jones et al. v Abel et al.
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