By Jen Heger - Breaking Celebrity News Legal Editor

The Notebook director, Nick Cassavetes, wants a lawsuit against him in connection with the Hollywood poker scandal thrown out, and is gearing up for a legal fight, Breaking Celebrity News is exclusively reporting.

Cassavetes is being sued for almost $74k in earnings by a bankruptcy trustee who is trying to recoup losses that were suffered by former clients that invested with Brad Ruderman, who was convicted in a Ponzi scheme.

EXCLUSIVE DOCUMENTS: Nick Cassavetes Files Motion To Get Poker Lawsuit Dismissed

The trustee, Howard Ehrenberg, is opposing Cassavetes motion to have the lawsuit dismissed. In court docs obtained by Breaking Celebrity News, Cassavetes' attorney, Ronald Richards, says: "The trustees' opposition shows the legal lunacy that is occurring here. Many law abiding, notably well known and successful Americans, played in a friendly home poker game, table stakes.

"No credit by any of the players to Ruderman and the trustees' complaint relies upon one illogical, unsupported, and misinformed theory... there can never be a lawsuit to enforce