Justin Baldoni can access Blake Lively, Taylor Swift Texts for Film

A judge has ruled that Justin Baldoni can now get text messages between Blake lively and Taylor Swift – but only related to their film, It ends with us.

“An offer or application can be, and in this case it has often been, a legal litigation tactic and an attempt to move in the wider court of public opinion,” Judge Lewis Liman writing In Wednesday, June 18, a judgment seen by Weekly US.

Previously, Swift, 35, moved to drop the subpoenas filed by the Baldoni team, eventually withdrawn. (A source close to the reported issue Us At the time the summons for Swift was dropped “because information was provided voluntarily” to Baldoni’s legal team.)

Lively, 37, then asked for “a defensive order”Against Baldoni’s team for their” ongoing requirements “for her communications with Swift earlier this month, claiming the messages were” irrelevant “to the case.

Judge Liman, however, disagreed in his verdict Wednesday, writing, “Given that lively has represented that quickly Having information about complaints or discussions about the work environment on the film, among other issues, the requests for messages with Swift about the film and this action are reasonably tailored to find out information that would prove or disprove harassment and vibrant revenge claims. “

A spokesman for a lively behalf responded to the judgment in a statement to UsWriting, “The court completely denied the parties offering to enforce documents from Ms. Lively, who has produced many more documents in this case than the Wayfarer parties combined. Further, the court’s defensive order judgment depends on the admission of the Wayfarer parties that no one received back exactly.

The statement continued, “For the rest, Justin Baldoni and the Wayfarer parties demanded access to Taylor Swift private communications – although they have already subpoenaed and then withdrawn that subpoena. Baldoni’s desire to drag Taylor Swift into this Melissa Nathan Included in their document ‘Planning a scenario’ (a lively revised complaint, an exhibit d), he referred to it as a bully, and called for a strategy to influence the ‘TS Fanbase’ (Lively’s revised complaint, 214 (b)). We will continue to call Baldoni’s endless efforts out to exploit the popularity of Ms Swift, which from day one has been nothing more than distracted from the serious sexual harassment and revenge accusations that and the road parties face. “

Weekly US reached out to the Swift team for comments.

Lively legal battle and baldoni Began in December 2024 When the actress accused her It ends with us Costar and director of sexual harassment, creating a hostile work environment on the set of the film and organizing an alleged cervical campaign against it.

Baldoni denied the allegations and counteracted lively, her husband, Ryan Reynoldsand publisher Leslie Sloane For $ 400 million, accusing them of civil extortion, defamation and more, they denied.

Baldoni’s legal case against Lively, Reynolds and Sloane was rejected earlier this month, but the judge and his legal team allowed to change their claims for breach of an implicit covenant and a contractual torture intervention. They had a deadline of June 23.

“Ms. Lively and her team’s victory statement is fake, so let’s be clear about the latest ruling,” said Baldoni Attorney Bryan Freedman Us In a statement “While the court dismissed the defamation-related claims, Retaliation and a nonexistent Smear Campaign, which Ms. Lively’s Own team conveniently describes as ‘untraceable’ because they cannot be whatever happened. ”

Lively, meanwhile, have addressed the judgment Through his Instagram stories on June 9, writing, “I stood proudly alongside 19 united organizations to protect women’s rights to speak out for their safety. Like so many others, I have felt the pain of a vengeful legal cause, including the manufactured shame that is trying to break us.”