A judge has issued this Justin Baldoni You can now get text messages between Blake Lively and Taylor Swift – But only belonging to your movie, Ends with us.
“A motion or request may be, and in this case it has often been, both a legitimate tactic of litigation and an attempt to maneuver in the broader public opinion court,” Judge Lewis Liman write On a Wednesday, June 18, the sentence seen by Use weekly.
Swift, 35, previously moved to drop the appointments presented by the Baldoni team, which they finally retired. (Said a source close to the matter Us At the moment Swift’s summons dropped “because the information was voluntarily provided” to the legal team of Baldoni.)
Animated, 37, then requested a “arrangement“Against Baldoni’s team for their” continued demands “for their communications with Swift earlier this month, claiming that the messages were” irrelevant “for the case.
Judge Liman, however, disagreed in his Wednesday sentence, writing: “Given that has represented this fast He was aware of complaints or discussions about the movie’s work environment, among other things, requests for Swift messages about the film, and this action reasonably adapts to discover information that would show or reject Lively’s harassment and retaliation claims. “”
A Lively spokesman responded to the sentence in a statement to UsWriting, “the court directly denied the motion of the parts of Wayfarer to force Ms. Lively, which has produced much more documents in this case than the combined Wayfarer parties. In addition, the judgment of the court’s protection order rests on the parts of Wayfarer who did not receive anything from Taylor Swift, which is exactly the opposite of his” installation ” “.
The statement continued: “As for the rest, Justin Baldoni and the Wayfarer parties demanded access to the private communications of Taylor Swift, despite being quoted and then withdrawing this summons. Baldoni’s desire to drag Taylor Swift has been a constant dating in August 2024 Melissa Nathan He included it in his stage planning document (Animated Modified Complaint, Exposure D), referred to it as a bully and requested a strategy to influence the “Fanbase TS” (Modified Modified Complaint, 214 (B)). We will continue to call Baldoni’s relentless efforts to exploit the popularity of Ms. Swift, who has only been a distraction from the serious accusations of sexual harassment and retaliation from the first day, and the parts of Wayfarer. “
Use weekly He has contacted the Swift team to comment.
Blake Lively, Justin Baldoni
Images of Jose Perez/Bauer-Griffin/GCAnimated legal battle and Baldoni Started in December 2024 When the actress accused her Ends with us Cost and director of sexual harassment, creating a hostile work environment for the film as a whole and orchestrating a suspected frotis campaign against it.
Baldoni denied complaints and counted animated, her husband, Ryan Reynoldsand publicist Leslie Sloane For $ 400 million, accusing them of civil extortion, defamation and much more, which they denied.
Baldoni’s demand against Lively, Reynolds and Sloane were dismissed earlier this month, but the judge allowed Baldoni and his legal team to modify his claims for breaching the implicit pact and torçosa interference with the contract. They were given a term of June 23.
“Ms. Lively and the predictable victory statement of her team is false, so let’s be clear about the last sentence,” said Baldoni’s prosecutor Bryan Freedman Us In a statement On June 10, “while the court dismissed the complaint related to the defamation, the court has invited us to modify four of the seven claims against Ms. Lively, which will show additional evidence and refined complaints. This case deals with false accusations of sexual harassment and retaliation and a non -existent Freat campaign, which Mrs. Lively Lively’s own team is described as” not ” they can ever demonstrate. ”
In the meantime animated, He addressed the sentence Through his Instagram stories on June 9, writing: “I was proud of 19 organizations united in the defense of women’s rights to talk about their safety. Like so many others, I have felt the pain of a demand for retaliation, including the manufactured shame that tries to break us.”
