Both sides react to Blake Lively’s subpoena for Justin Baldoni’s phone records, which is deemed overly intrusive
Lively may make specific discovery requests of the ‘It Ends With Us’ collaborators she already identified in the alleged negative media campaign against her
A federal judge has shut down part of Blake Lively’s subpoena for phone records amid her ongoing legal conflict with It Ends With Us director-costar Justin Baldoni.
In court documents released Friday, Feb. 28, Judge Lewis J. Liman issued a mixed ruling, saying that the subpoena from Lively’s legal team for communications from Baldoni and his production company Wayfarer Studios dating back to 2022 was “overly intrusive and disproportionate to the needs of the case.»
“Lively has identified no means to segregate those numbers that may have some relevance to her case from those numbers that would have no relevance and would reveal sensitive personal information,” reads the judge’s ruling,
which notes that in Lively’s initial complaint against Baldoni alleging sexual harassment and a retaliatory smear campaign, she claimed the negative campaign began in August 2024.
However, attorneys for Baldoni — who has denied the allegations and responded in January by countersuing Lively, her husband Ryan Reynolds, their publicist and The New York Times in a suit that alleged defamation and extortion —
“have not provided any basis for asserting an interest in the communications of non-parties.” This means that «Lively may make discovery requests tailored to those» she already identified in the alleged negative media campaign.
