Blake Lively Wins This Round! Claim She Threatened Taylor Swift TOSSED OUT By Court!

We guess Blake Lively won this round in court… but maybe not the court of public opinion?? OK, just to catch everyone up…

Taylor Swift was subpoenaed this week. Not just her, but the communications between her attorney and Michael Gottlieb — Blake and Ryan Reynolds‘ attorney. Why? Well, Justin Baldoni‘s lawyer Bryan Freedman made that clear in on Wednesday. He claimed in a letter that Blake tried to extort Taylor Swift! He said Blake’s legal team reached out to Tay’s — asking for a public statement of support, and intimating they’d release her private texts. We later found out in a subsequent filing the extent of the alleged threat — she supposedly intended to flood the internet with 10 YEARS of texts between them! Terrible, if true.

Blake’s team — led by Gottlieb — filed a motion to strike Freedman’s letter. And the court… sided with Blake this time. Judge Lewis J. Liman ruled on Thursday:

“The Letter is improper and must be stricken. It is irrelevant to any issue before this Court and does not request any action from this Court.”

Why? He says of the letter:

“It concerns a subpoena proceeding in the District of Columbia over which this Court has no authority. The sole purpose of the Letter is to ‘promote public scandal’ by advancing inflammatory accusations, on information and belief, against Lively and her counsel. It transparently invites a press uproar by suggesting that Lively and her counsel attempted to ‘extort’ a well-known celebrity. Retaining the Letter on the docket would be of no use to the Court and would allow the Court’s docket to serve as a ‘reservoir of libelous statements for press consumption.’”

What about Freedman’s sworn affidavit? Yep, that’s stricken from the record, too — with a warning:

“The same is true for the Wayfarer Parties’ subsequent submission, which the Court will strike sua sponte for the same reasons. Counsel is advised that future misuse of the Court’s docket may be met with sanctions.”

Damn. We’re no lawyers, but we know you don’t want to be threatened by the judge!

We also know… he’s right about that letter promoting public scandal! It sure as hell has done that much! Because you can strike the accusation from the record, but you can’t strike it from the public’s memory. And we all read these allegations against Blake as reported by various big time, legitimate media outlets. And if they’re true, it really is unforgivable stuff. We mean… you wouldn’t be able to strike it from Taylor’s memory either.

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