Blake Lively granted stronger protective order as Justin Baldoni legal war continues

nypost.com:

a modified protective order she requested to keep sensitive communications and documents out of the public eye and deemed as for “Attorneys’ Eyes Only” during the pretrial phase of her sexual harassment and defamation lawsuit against her “It Ends With Us” co-star and director.However, the actress — along with fellow plaintiffs Reynolds and her p.r.

representatives (the “Moving” parties) — did not get a victory outright, as the request was “granted in part and denied in part.”The team for Baldoni and his Wayfarer Studios — who have countersued Lively and previously opposed her request for the strengthened protective order — welcomed the decision.“The Court has narrowed the provision to stated that information may be marked AEO only if its disclosure is ‘highly likely to cause a significant business, commercial, financial, or privacy injury,’ ” Judge Lewis Liman wrote in his memorandum obtained by The Post.“The parties have levelled [sic] accusations of theft of trade secrets and the disclosure of confidential sensitive information against one another,” he declared.“The Court’s model protective order is not sufficient for the needs of these cases,” he also stated.“These cases involve both business competitors and allegations of sexual harm.

Discovery will necessarily include confidential and sensitive business and personal information. The risk of disclosure is great.“Both the Moving Parties and the Wayfarer Parties have accused opposing parties of providing private, sensitive, or confidential information to the media for their own business and personal advantage in ways that cannot easily be traced.