Blake Lively Gets Partial Win Over Phone Records Request, Justin Baldoni's Lawyer Reacts to Mixed Ruling
Blake Lively attempted to obtain “call logs, text logs, data logs and cell site location information” from Justin Baldoni as part of their legal battle and now the judge has issued a mixed ruling.
As part of the battle between the It Ends With Us stars, Lively‘s team was seeking Baldoni‘s phone records dating back to 2022 in order to gather evidence to support her case.
The judge issued a mixed ruling that gave Blake a partial win and now Justin‘s legal team is responding.
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U.S. District Judge Lewis Liman rejected part of Blake‘s request as it was “overly broad and invasive.”
The judge wrote, “This request implicates legitimate privacy interests. Even though Lively has narrowed her request to exclude the content of calls or messages, the phone records themselves would still contain sensitive information regarding doctors, psychologists or even acquaintances the Wayfarer parties spoke to, and when. Lively has not provided a basis to believe that the broad discovery she seeks will reveal information regarding unknown participants in the negative media campaign proportionate to the burden of the Wayfarer Parties’ privacy interests.”
The judge will Blake to “more narrowly” tailor the requests and the judge also ruled that Justin‘s team has not shown why she can’t seek records of people who are “non-parties” to the lawsuit.
“The Wayfarer Parties may assert a privacy interest in their own phone records, but they have not provided any basis for asserting an interest in the communications of non-parties,” the judge said in the ruling.
Justin‘s lawyer Bryan Freedman supported the ruling.
“The Court put a stop to Ms. Lively’s egregious attempt to invade our clients’ privacy. This is a big win. No matter how the Lively Parties may try to spin this decision, the Court saw their efforts for what they really are: a desperate fishing expedition intended to salvage their debunked claims long after they already savaged our clients’ reputations in the New York Times,” he told Variety.
Earlier today it was reported that Blake has hired a crisis PR manager.