Blake Lively suffered a small mishap in court after a judge deny his effort to obtain communications sent by Justin Baldoni‘SEAM Legal to content creators or in the press about it, Use weekly can confirm.
On Monday, August 4, a federal Judge of New York ruled the motion filed by Baldoni’s lawyer sign Liner Freedman’s Folding Cooley. Baldoni’s main lawyer, Bryan FreedmanHe is a member of the firm.
Freedman’s law firm asked the court to close a 37 -year -old quotation Lively, issued demanding that they convey communications and information on various problems.
Lively sued Baldoni, 41, accusing him of sexual harassment on the set of his 2024 movie, Ends with us. Baldoni denies claims. The actress believes that she hired a crisis PR team to search -in the press in retaliation to talk about her behavior. Baldoni denied that he would go after Lively publicly, but accused him of taking control of his film after the wrapped production.
Lively believes that the Baldoni team may have used content creators to drive negative narratives about it. Baldoni’s team argued that the negative press was organic and not an orchestrated plan against Lively.
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AEON/GC picturesIn the recent order, the judge said, “Lively claims that the aim of the campaign was to spread unpleasant content about her on social media and the press.”
The judge said that Lively also claims that the defendants “continued to perpetrate the undisputed digital campaign and continued to” promote negative and derogatory content about his “.
Blake Lively calls for a “protection order” against Justin Baldoni’s legal team about his “continuous demands” for his communications with Taylor Swift, US Weekly can confirm. Lively, 37, filed a letter to Judge Lewis J. Liman on Friday, June 13, and seen by us, claiming that Baldoni’s Wayfarer parties have “pursued” their communications with Swift, (…)
The order was said: “(Lively) states that the defendants’ lawyer has threatened witnesses, journalists, media organizations and others if they publish unfavorable information on Baldoni or other defendants.”
Lively’s summons at the law firm demanding the agreements they signed with content creators to represent them, any invoice on or related to content creators on the case, the account bank information where any payment to the creators and all Freedman communications were sent about their public statements of August 1, 2024, until the present day. He also requested that all telephone records show Freedman’s call with any source about the public statements he made about Lively, which he considers to be defamatory.
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Images of Jose Perez/Bauer-Griffin/GCThe court said the law firm opposite Most applications. The firm also said that he had no agreement to represent any creator or document on payments between the firm to creators.
“The court grants the motion to (close the appointments) insofar as Lively seeks agreements in which (the law firm) has entered for the purpose of representing content creators in unrelated issues.
Blake Lively left the appointments that his legal team fired demanding information on three small-time content creators who covered his legal battle with Justin Baldoni, US Weekly informing exclusively. According to the court documents obtained by us, on July 26, Lively, 37, informed the court of his decision days after the YouTube creators requested (…)
The judge said: “But in this phase, this statement is speculative, of tangential relevance and can be tested by the discovery of other sources.”
The company’s communications application was denied with journalists.
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Cindy Ord/Getty pictures“Lively has not shown at this time the need to obtain these Liner documents and there is a potential risk that applications will be achieved in the privilege of lawyer-client, the doctrine of the lawyers’ work product or the list of lawyers-cliently generally,” said the judge.
The court also denied Lively’s request for information on his public statements about it.
The court said Lively could obtain information from the law firm using alternative methods and not a quotation.
The word war between Justin Baldoni and Blake Lively shows no sign of stopping. Baldoni’s lawyer, Bryan Freedman, issued a burning response to Lively’s claims that he is trying to stain the jury’s pool in his next trial, especially leaking information to try to reject the side of the actress in the story. (…)
The judge stated: “Freedman’s allegedly defamatory statements have the effect that Lively is a liar and that his complaint’s complaints are not true. A obvious source of information that constitutes the foundations of Freedman’s statements would be the communications made to his clients in Freedman in the course of requesting legal advice. These communications would be privileged.”
As Us previously reported, Lively was deposed as part of the legal battle July 31 in New York. Sources said Us that Baldoni was present in the room While Lively was questioned by his lawyers.
Animated and Baldoni is expected to face the trial again scheduled to start March 9, 2026.
