Blake Lively<\/a> was being given \u201cspecial treatment simply because she\u2019s a celebrity.\u201d<\/p>\n\u2018It\u2019s not helped me\u2019<\/p>\n
Calling it a \u201cserious issue,\u201d Judge Liman stopped Fritz from making such \u201caccusations,\u201d and said that \u201cthrowing around accusations\u201d has not helped.<\/p>\n
\u201cThere are problems that the court is trying to deal with and it\u2019s helpful for me if you frame it in language and words that the court is accustomed to. It does not help me \u2014 and it\u2019s not helped me in this case \u2014 to start throwing around accusations,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
The judge said that he is well aware that Justin Baldoni and Blake Lively are high-profile people, but, \u201cI have told you before, before I came into this case, I didn\u2019t know who your client was, I did not know who the plaintiff was. Their names were unknown to me.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cAs far as I\u2019m concerned, whether they have celebrity at the moment or not is irrelevant. Celebrity, as you know, and everybody knows, can be fleeting. It\u2019s also not relevant to the court.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cSo, your point is well taken that celebrity is irrelevant. Now let\u2019s make it irrelevant. We don\u2019t need to talk about it,\u201d he finished.<\/p>\n
Blake Lively granted protective order<\/p>\n
Judge Liman, however, granted Blake Lively’s request for a protective order requiring Justin Baldoni’s team to identify everyone who would attend her deposition.<\/p>\n
The actress is expected to \u201cmake arrangements for opposing counsel to have a dedicated computer and the ability to print and copy documents in the space chosen by Lively.\u201d<\/p>\n
Justin Baldoni<\/a> and his Wayfarer Studios are now required to notify Blake Lively of the individuals who will attend her upcoming deposition, which is set to occur on July 17, two days prior, reported E! News.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The judge overseeing Blake Lively’s ongoing legal battle with her ‘It Ends With US’ co-star Justin Baldoni reportedly…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":10936,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[10682,49,48,361,10689,10686,75,10688,10684,10683,10687,10690,10685],"class_list":{"0":"post-10935","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-celebrities","8":"tag-blake-lively","9":"tag-ca","10":"tag-canada","11":"tag-celebrities","12":"tag-celebrity-is-fleeting","13":"tag-deposition","14":"tag-entertainment","15":"tag-judge-lewis-liman","16":"tag-judge-liman","17":"tag-justin-baldoni","18":"tag-legal-battle","19":"tag-mariah-carey","20":"tag-protective-order"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10935","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10935"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10935\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10936"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10935"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10935"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10935"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}