Overview

• Lively filed a motion on June 13 requesting that Judge Lewis J. Liman bar Justin Baldoni’s team from accessing her communications with Taylor Swift.
• Her attorneys contend Baldoni’s repeated demands for Swift’s messages serve as a media strategy that distracts from her sexual harassment and retaliation claims.
• Baldoni’s lawyers had subpoenaed Swift and her counsel in May but withdrew the subpoenas after Swift’s attorney objected to an “unwarranted fishing expedition.”
• The motion comes days after Judge Liman dismissed Baldoni’s $400 million defamation and extortion countersuit against Lively, Ryan Reynolds and others.
• Lively’s underlying lawsuit alleging on-set harassment and a smear campaign is scheduled for trial in March 2026.