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Judge Lewis Liman ruled on Friday that Baldoni\u2019s lawyers waited too long to schedule Swift\u2019s deposition and won\u2019t be extending the deadline beyond 30 September.<\/p>\n
\u201cHaving failed to demonstrate appropriate diligence, the requested extension is denied,\u201d said Liman.<\/p>\n
In December 2024, Lively filed a lawsuit claiming Baldoni sexually harassed her on the set of the Coleen Hoover adaptation, in which Baldoni played her character\u2019s abusive partner.<\/p>\n
In a defamation lawsuit, which has since been rejected, Baldoni alleged that Lively and her husband, Ryan Reynolds, tried to destroy his career using false allegations of sexual harassment.<\/p>\n
On Friday, Swift\u2019s lawyer rejected claims that she has agreed to hand over evidence as part of the legal dispute.<\/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 read a letter submitted Friday by Swift\u2019s legal team and obtained by US Weekly<\/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 added. \u201cWe take no role in those disputes.\u201d<\/p>\n The denial comes in direct response to court documents filed by Baldoni\u2019s legal team on Thursday, asking for an extension on the discovery period to accommodate Swift\u2019s deposition the week of 20 October \u201cdue to Ms Swift\u2019s pre-existing professional obligations”.<\/p>\n Swift, whose new album The Life of a Showgirl<\/span> will be released on 3 October, has \u201cagreed to appear for deposition but is unable to do so before October 20, 2025,\u201d they claimed.<\/p>\n The Gossip Girl <\/span>star\u2019s lawyer also disputed Baldoni\u2019s team\u2019s assertions that Swift has \u201cagreed\u201d to sit for a deposition, saying they are \u201cwithout evidence\u201d.<\/p>\n \u201cEven if one were to take the Wayfarer Defendants\u2019 representation at face value, they have not come close to establishing good cause for their requested relief,\u201d they said in documents filed Friday.<\/p>\n Baldoni\u2019s team was said to be interested in text messages that Lively may have exchanged with Swift about the working conditions on the set of It Ends With Us<\/span>.<\/p>\n As part of the discovery process, Baldoni\u2019s legal team had subpoenaed Swift for her communications with Lively.<\/p>\n That subpoena was dropped in May, after Swift\u2019s representative hit back by saying it had been \u201cdesigned to use Taylor Swift\u2019s name to draw public interest by creating tabloid clickbait instead of focusing on the facts of the case.\u201d<\/p>\n In addition, Lively\u2019s team were unsuccessful in their attempts to exclude Swift from the case entirely.<\/p>\n Swift was dragged into the legal battle early on, when Baldoni claimed he was invited to Lively\u2019s house in 2023 to discuss script changes, where both Lively\u2019s husband, Ryan Reynolds, and Swift were present to serve as her \u201cdragons.\u201d<\/p>\n They denied that Swift had any involvement in the movie\u2019s production, telling The UK Independent<\/span> that her only connection to the project was her song \u201cMy Tears Ricochet\u201d, which was used in the soundtrack.<\/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,\u201d the spokesperson said.<\/p>\n \u201cShe did not even see It Ends With Us<\/span> until weeks after its public release, and was traveling around the globe during 2023 and 2024 headlining the biggest tour in history.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/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.independent.ie \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Judge Lewis Liman ruled on Friday that Baldoni\u2019s lawyers waited too long to schedule Swift\u2019s deposition and won\u2019t be extending the deadline beyond 30 September. \u201cHaving failed to demonstrate appropriate diligence, the requested extension is denied,\u201d said Liman. 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