Justin Baldoni "wants to be vindicated, and that's all that he cares about," said his lawyer Bryan Freedman in an interview with TMZ after the judge dismissed his lawsuit against Blake Lively. "He knows what he hasn't done.

A judge on Monday dismissed Justin Baldoni’s $400 million defamation lawsuit against Hollywood power couple Blake Lively and Ryan Reynolds, a major development in the ongoing civil litigation between former co-stars Lively and Baldoni.

A judge granting Lively’s motion to dismiss Baldoni’s countersuit “is undoubtedly a blow,” Gregory Doll, an attorney not involved in the case, tells PEOPLE