Justin Baldoni’s Team Squabble With Blake Lively & Ryan Reynolds’ Lawyers Over Subpoenas As Filing Deadline Approaches

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Amid a very public weekend for Blake Lively and Ryan Reynolds, attorneys for Justin Baldoni are doing everything they can to quash a series of subpoenas to telecom companies and others from the power couple to look at calls, texts, emails and maybe anything else they can get their eyes on in the sprawling hostility between the It Ends With Us stars.

Efforts that the Gossip Girl vet, the Deadpool lead and their lawyers want to give no quarter to in this very 21st century version of who-said-what-when?

In a case(s) that seems to spin out of control culturally and sometimes legally ever since Lively submitted her sexual harassment and alleged “astroturfing” retaliation compliant with California’s Civil Rights department on December 20 and the subsequent multi-million dollar lawsuits, Lively and Reynolds’ legal team issued subpoenas on February 12 to the likes of AT&T, Verizon and T-Mobile, as well as AOL, Cloudflare, Inc., and one-time self-declared “hired gun” Jed Wallace.

Over a year out from a scheduled trial start date of March 29, 2026 and with some of the digital aspects of the PR Dark Arts now in the spotlight, the point of the paperwork is to get records for Baldoni, his Wayfarer Studios, CEO Jamey Heath, financier Steve Sarowitz, publicists Melissa Nathan (of Depp vs Heard trial fame) and Jennifer Abel, and others connected to those individuals to try to paint a complete picture of who was talking to whom and what were they saying, especially about Lively.