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\n\t\t<\/h3>\n<\/p><\/div>\n\n\t\t\tTaylor Swift refuted Justin Baldoni\u2019s claim that she \u201cagreed\u201d to be deposed in his federal lawsuit against Blake Lively, Us Weekly can report. \u201cAs counsel for the parties know, since the inception of this matter we have consistently maintained that my client has no material role in this action,\u201d read a letter filed by Swift\u2019s [\u2026]\t\t<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
In conclusion, Liman decreed, \u201cHaving failed to demonstrate appropriate diligence, the requested extension is denied.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\nUs <\/i>previously reported that\u00a0<\/span>Baldoni\u2019s attorneys submitted a letter on Thursday, September 11 claiming that Swift \u201cagreed\u201d to be deposed<\/a> next month. They stated that the <\/span>deposition would take place between October 20 to October 25, and requested an extension on the deadline to depose third parties to allow them time to speak with the 35-year-old pop star.<\/span><\/p>\nLively\u2019s team responded<\/a> by claiming that Baldoni \u201crepeatedly sought to bring [Swift] into this litigation to fuel their relentless media strategy.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\nThey stated, \u201cIn this respect, [Baldoni and his team\u2019s] lack of diligence, and disrespect for [Swift\u2019s] privacy and schedule, is astounding.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n\t\t\t
\n Related: <\/span>Blake Lively’s Team Reacts After Taylor Swift Agrees to Baldoni Deposition<\/span><\/a>
\n\t\t<\/h3>\n<\/p><\/div>\n\n\t\t\tBlake Lively fired back at Justin Baldoni after he revealed Taylor Swift agreed to sit for a deposition as part of their ongoing legal battle, Us Weekly can exclusively report. In her new filing on Friday, September 12, Lively, 38, claimed Baldoni, 41, and his team have \u201crepeatedly sought to bring [Swift] into this litigation [\u2026]\t\t<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
On Friday, Swift\u2019s lawyer refuted Baldoni\u2019s claim<\/a> that she had agreed to the deposition.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n\u201cAs counsel for the parties know, since the inception of this matter we have consistently maintained that my client has no material role in this action,\u201d Swift\u2019s legal team stated in a letter obtained by Us<\/i>.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n\u201cFurther my client did not agree to a deposition, but if she is forced into a deposition, we advised (after first hearing about the deposition just three days ago) that her schedule would accommodate the time required during the week of October 20 if the parties were able to work out their disputes,\u201d the filing, which was addressed to Liman, continued. \u201cWe take no role in those disputes.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\nSwift\u2019s team previously addressed being named in the Lively\/Baldoni legal feud back in March, when Baldoni rescinded a subpoena against her.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\nThank You!<\/h3>\n
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\n\t\t<\/h3>\n<\/p><\/div>\n\n\t\t\tBlake Lively is requesting a \u201cprotective order\u201d against Justin Baldoni\u2019s legal team over their \u201ccontinuing demands\u201d for her communications with Taylor Swift, Us Weekly can confirm. Lively, 37, submitted a letter to judge Lewis J. Liman on Friday, June 13, and viewed by Us, claiming that Baldoni\u2019s Wayfarer Parties has \u201cpursued\u201d her communications with Swift, [\u2026]\t\t<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
A rep for Swift stated at the time that she had no involvement in the film at the center of the lawsuit \u2014 It Ends With Us<\/i>, which costarred Baldoni and Lively \u2014\u00a0and has no knowledge relevant to the dispute.<\/span><\/p>\n\u201cTaylor Swift never set foot on the set of this movie, she was not involved in any casting or creative decisions, she did not score the film, she never saw an edit or made any notes on the film, she did not even see It Ends With Us<\/i> until weeks after its public release, and was traveling around the globe during 2023 and 2024 headlining the biggest tour in history,\u201d the spokesperson added at the time.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\nLively sued Baldoni in December 2024, alleging sexual harassment on the set of the film that he directed. She also claimed that he coordinated with a crisis PR team to launch a smear campaign against her, which he has denied. Baldoni then sued Lively and her husband Ryan Reynolds<\/strong>, accusing the couple of extortion and defamation, but that lawsuit was dismissed in June<\/span><\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.usmagazine.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A judge has denied Justin Baldoni\u2019s request for an extension to depose Taylor Swift in his federal lawsuit against Blake Lively. Per documents obtained by Us Weekly on Friday, September 12, United States District Judge Lewis Liman ruled that Baldoni, 41, and his legal team had not \u201cdemonstrated good cause for their requested extension. The […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2018326,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25177],"tags":[304753,24003,21741,24386],"class_list":["post-2018325","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-celebrities","tag-celebrity-feuds","tag-celebrity-news","tag-entertainment","tag-entertainment-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Justin-Baldonis-Plea-to-Depose-Taylor-Swift-Rejected-in-Court.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2018325","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2018325"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2018325\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2018326"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2018325"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2018325"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2018325"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
Us <\/i>previously reported that\u00a0<\/span>Baldoni\u2019s attorneys submitted a letter on Thursday, September 11 claiming that Swift \u201cagreed\u201d to be deposed<\/a> next month. They stated that the <\/span>deposition would take place between October 20 to October 25, and requested an extension on the deadline to depose third parties to allow them time to speak with the 35-year-old pop star.<\/span><\/p>\n Lively\u2019s team responded<\/a> by claiming that Baldoni \u201crepeatedly sought to bring [Swift] into this litigation to fuel their relentless media strategy.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n They stated, \u201cIn this respect, [Baldoni and his team\u2019s] lack of diligence, and disrespect for [Swift\u2019s] privacy and schedule, is astounding.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n \n\t\t\tBlake Lively fired back at Justin Baldoni after he revealed Taylor Swift agreed to sit for a deposition as part of their ongoing legal battle, Us Weekly can exclusively report. In her new filing on Friday, September 12, Lively, 38, claimed Baldoni, 41, and his team have \u201crepeatedly sought to bring [Swift] into this litigation [\u2026]\t\t<\/p>\n<\/div>\n On Friday, Swift\u2019s lawyer refuted Baldoni\u2019s claim<\/a> that she had agreed to the deposition.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n \u201cAs counsel for the parties know, since the inception of this matter we have consistently maintained that my client has no material role in this action,\u201d Swift\u2019s legal team stated in a letter obtained by Us<\/i>.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n \u201cFurther my client did not agree to a deposition, but if she is forced into a deposition, we advised (after first hearing about the deposition just three days ago) that her schedule would accommodate the time required during the week of October 20 if the parties were able to work out their disputes,\u201d the filing, which was addressed to Liman, continued. \u201cWe take no role in those disputes.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n Swift\u2019s team previously addressed being named in the Lively\/Baldoni legal feud back in March, when Baldoni rescinded a subpoena against her.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n You have successfully subscribed.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n \n\t\t\tBlake Lively is requesting a \u201cprotective order\u201d against Justin Baldoni\u2019s legal team over their \u201ccontinuing demands\u201d for her communications with Taylor Swift, Us Weekly can confirm. Lively, 37, submitted a letter to judge Lewis J. Liman on Friday, June 13, and viewed by Us, claiming that Baldoni\u2019s Wayfarer Parties has \u201cpursued\u201d her communications with Swift, [\u2026]\t\t<\/p>\n<\/div>\n A rep for Swift stated at the time that she had no involvement in the film at the center of the lawsuit \u2014 It Ends With Us<\/i>, which costarred Baldoni and Lively \u2014\u00a0and has no knowledge relevant to the dispute.<\/span><\/p>\n \u201cTaylor Swift never set foot on the set of this movie, she was not involved in any casting or creative decisions, she did not score the film, she never saw an edit or made any notes on the film, she did not even see It Ends With Us<\/i> until weeks after its public release, and was traveling around the globe during 2023 and 2024 headlining the biggest tour in history,\u201d the spokesperson added at the time.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n Lively sued Baldoni in December 2024, alleging sexual harassment on the set of the film that he directed. She also claimed that he coordinated with a crisis PR team to launch a smear campaign against her, which he has denied. Baldoni then sued Lively and her husband Ryan Reynolds<\/strong>, accusing the couple of extortion and defamation, but that lawsuit was dismissed in June<\/span><\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.usmagazine.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" A judge has denied Justin Baldoni\u2019s request for an extension to depose Taylor Swift in his federal lawsuit against Blake Lively. Per documents obtained by Us Weekly on Friday, September 12, United States District Judge Lewis Liman ruled that Baldoni, 41, and his legal team had not \u201cdemonstrated good cause for their requested extension. 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\n Related: <\/span>Blake Lively’s Team Reacts After Taylor Swift Agrees to Baldoni Deposition<\/span><\/a>
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