Phil Holloway

You know, Megan, in law school, there's a class titled Annoying Cases and Annoying Litigants Should Just Go Away.

And I think that's where this case is now.

This is now in the realm of utter ridiculousness.

Lively is, as others have said, in my opinion, on a fake basis.

victory tour.

This whole thing about this treble damages statute, as Ashley kind of pointed out, it can overcomplicate things.

And sometimes people commit sexual harassment, and sometimes people falsely accuse others of it.

And anytime you have these treble damages statutes, you just invite this kind of weaponization.

But let me just say this about the

what I thought was a settlement.

I heard our friends Matt Murphy and Mark Garagos doing a great segment on their program on the MK True Crime channel about this settlement.

And I thought, great, this case is over.

But apparently it's not.

Apparently we're going to have to have another trial about the settlement.

i was always taught that when you negotiate and draft a settlement you're supposed to settle everything it should be complete you should have complete releases of all of these things so that these kinds of complicated questions would not remain because you don't really get the benefit of having a settlement if you still have to keep going back to court over and over again and even as the trial judge has recently said

to Lively's attorneys, you know, they've said, look, he said, look, your client just has the power to just make this go away.

And I think even the judge, quite frankly, is getting a little bit sick of this case.

And I think we all are just ready for it to be over with.

Maybe they can reach some kind of secondary compromise and this time get the settlement done right, sign a complete release and just have these people who clearly hate each other just go their separate ways.

Yeah, well, the defendant in this case started setting up his defense pretty much immediately because the police reports quote him as saying things like, quote, I was protecting myself.