Ryan Reynolds & Blake Lively's Lawyer Responds After Justin Baldoni & His Team React to Gag Order Request, Says They Are Continuing Smear Campaign
There’s a new update in the legal battle between Blake Lively and husband Ryan Reynolds and her It Ends With Us director/co-star Justin Baldoni.
Earlier this week, the 37-year-old actress’ team filed documents requesting Justin‘s lawyer stop making statements in the press that could prejudice a potential jury.
Then, Justin and his team reacted, arguing “there’s an exception to the rule that permits statements necessary to protect clients from fallout over negative publicity that they didn’t instigate.”
Now, Blake and Ryan‘s lawyer has hit back with a letter to a judge, furthering that the so-called gag order is needed.
Keep reading to find out more…
“Requiring counsel to heed the ethical rules that bind them is not a gag order; it is a mechanism that would ensure the proceedings in this Court are are not prejudiced by counsel’s conduct outside of the courtroom,” Blake and Ryan‘s lawyer Esra Hudson said in the letter on behalf of them on Friday evening (January 24) to Judge Lewis J. Liman, via Deadline.
“The Wayfarer Parties are attempting to draw a dangerous false equivalence that may have profound consequences not just for this case, but for other women who are sexually harassed in the workplace given the high profile of this matter,” the lawyer continued.
In the letter, Esra Hudson claims the smear campaign against Blake and Ryan is still going on, and even named names.
“Even more troubling, however, is that the retaliation campaign that Ms. Lively alleged in her Complaint, with substantial supporting documentation, includes highly destructive behind-the-scenes elements, including the regular engagement of Melissa Nathan with her vast tabloid media sources to influence a steady stream of negative media regarding Ms. Lively, as well as a sophisticated and “untraceable” digital social media manipulation campaign designed to impact social media algorithms against Ms. Lively. The Lively-Reynolds Parties are informed and believe that these efforts have continued unabated since the CRD Complaint was filed, and may have even been accelerated. The administration of justice in this case will be severely compromised if this behavior continues.”
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