Overview

• Blake Lively filed for a protective order to bar Justin Baldoni’s legal team from accessing her communications with Taylor Swift.
• Baldoni’s lawyers subpoenaed Swift and her counsel in March and May before withdrawing those requests amid objections.
• Judge Lewis Liman threw out Baldoni’s $400 million defamation and extortion countersuit earlier this month.
• Lively’s attorneys have also subpoenaed Scooter Braun and HYBE America for documents on crisis PR manager Melissa Nathan’s work for Baldoni.
• Her legal team argues that Swift’s messages are irrelevant to Lively’s harassment and retaliation claims and serve only as a tabloid-driven tactic.