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,

Blake Lively and Ryan Reynolds are hoping the defamation lawsuit from Justin Baldoni ends with dismissal. Variety reports that the couple told a federal judge on January 30 that they will file a dismissal against Baldoni’s defamation lawsuit.

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.