Eric Mabius — a veteran television actor — has been arrested in Florida for battery … TMZ has learned.

The star was arrested Thursday morning and booked into the Nassau County Jail and Detention Center just before 6 AM.

He was booked on two charges … battery and resisting an officer without violence. They are both misdemeanor charges. He’s not smiling in his mug shot — and, it appears he may have a cut by his right eye.

Eric’s big break came on “Ugly Betty,” where he played Daniel Meade — editor of “Mode,” the prestigious fashion magazine America Ferrera‘s Betty works at — in 85 episodes of the show.

His other credits include … “The O.C.,” “Signed, Sealed, Delivered,” “Blue Bloods,” “Franklin & Bash,” “Chicago Fire,” “Outcasts” and more.

We’ve reached out to cops and Mabius’ team … so far, no word back.

Kim Kardashian is being dragged to court over a social media screw-up … she’s being sued by a guy she mistakenly identified as a death row inmate.

According to a new lawsuit, obtained by TMZ, Kim is being sued by Ivan Cantu … a project manager from New York who Kim identified as a man awaiting the death penalty in a Texas prison cell.

Kim posted a photo of the wrong Ivan Cantu on her social media in February 2024 when she was trying to bring awareness to the case of an inmate by the same name … and Ivan says the mix-up subjected him to public embarrassment, shame, hatred, ridicule, disgrace, contempt and aversion.

He says Kim’s post made him lose sleep, get headaches, have nightmares and experience PTSD … and he says she’s hurt his reputation and made him need medical care and emotional counseling.

As we first reported … Ivan blasted Kim at the time, saying some “idiot” who runs her social media accounts used his picture instead of death row inmate Ivan “Abner” Cantu. That inmate was executed on schedule, BTW.

The SKIMS founder took down the post in question but Ivan says the damage was already done because she has hundreds of millions of followers … and he’s going after her for money.

Blake Lively‘s publicist says she shouldn’t be a defendant in Justin Baldoni‘s lawsuit against Blake because, despite Baldoni’s claims to the contrary, she didn’t start this public relations war.

Leslie Sloane — owner of Vision PR — filed a motion to dismiss herself and her company from the civil lawsuit JB’s team filed against Lively and her husband, Ryan Reynolds, Thursday … claiming there’s no factual basis that she started a PR war against Baldoni.

Sloane claims Baldoni’s amended complaint provides no evidence to back up this claim. In addition, she points to text messages Blake obtained last year … in which Jennifer Abel — part of the Baldoni PR machine — allegedly wrote she wanted to “plant pieces this week of how horrible Blake is to work with.”

Sloane says she told the reporter “That is 1000 percent untrue” and “Your info is totally off” before adding … “The whole cast doesn’t like Justin nothing to do with Blake” and “I’m telling you she’s a liar. They are panicking as the whole cast hates him.”

Sloane’s asking the judge to dismiss the case against her and Vision PR with prejudice, and she’s asking a judge to order Baldoni’s side to pay their attorneys’ fees.

It’s been a hectic week in this case … ’cause Blake Lively’s side filed an amended complaint Tuesday claiming multiple women on set were made uncomfortable by
Justin Baldoni — and saying at least two of them will testify to that effect.

Baldoni’s lawyer, Bryan Freedman, called the new allegations hearsay … calling out these alleged witnesses for not coming forward to support the lawsuit’s claims.