One big early milestone that you see in a lot of these legal grudge matches—including, tonight, the defamation case Justin Baldoni is bringing against Blake Lively and Ryan Reynolds—is the part where the defendants try to get the case against them dismissed outright,

With the first actual hearing in the multi-million dollar lawsuits between It Ends With Us co-stars Blake Lively and Justin Baldoni coming up early next week, the Gossip Girl alum and spouse Ryan Reynolds have finally said the quiet part out loud.

Blake Lively and husband Ryan Reynolds told a federal judge Thursday that they will seek to dismiss Justin Baldoni’s defamation lawsuit. Attorneys for the two sides are due in court Monday for the first hearing on the megafeud between the two “It Ends With Us” co-stars.