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Blake Lively Wants to Protect Conversations With Famous Friends Amid Justin Baldoni Lawsuit

Blake Lively and Ryan Reynolds want discovery material placed under "attorneys eyes only" designation, citing privacy concerns for third parties.

Blake Lively and Ryan Reynolds want to ensure that information about their celebrity friends who might inadvertently pop up in their ongoing litigation against Justin Baldoni will stay private amid the contentious and high-profile legal battle over the ill-fated It Ends with Us production. During a heated hour-and-a-half long virtual court hearing on Thursday, the numerous parties that have been roped into the multi-pronged case — including The New York Times and two separate publicity firms — made their arguments over designating certain discovery material “attorney eyes only.” “There is a significant chance of irreparable harm if marginal conversations with high profile individuals with no relevance to the case were to fall into wrong hands,” McCawley said at the hearing in front of Judge Lewis Liman in Manhattan federal court.

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