Now, perhaps the courts are even more corrupted than I think, but this attempt to control who the other side uses to conduct their depositions strikes me as completely insane.
Blake Lively wants Justin Baldoni’s powerful celebrity attorney Bryan Freedman barred from taking her deposition, DailyMail.com can reveal. The actress’s lawyers have told their counterparts representing Baldoni and his production company Wayfarer that they object to veteran litigator Freedman conducting the under-oath grilling.
The shock demand is revealed in a new letter from Baldoni’s team to the New York judge overseeing the It Ends with Us co-stars’ $400million defamation suit. They say the 37-year-old Gossip Girl alum and wife of Hollywood megastar Ryan Reynolds, 48, has no right to dictate who questions her.
‘Specifically, the Lively Parties’ counsel indicated that they object to Bryan J. Freedman personally, taking Ms. Lively’s deposition, based upon unspecified statements made by Mr. Freedman. When asked to elaborate on the grounds for their objection, counsel for the Lively Parties declined to do so.’
It would appear that the Lively Parties’ counsel not only are not powerful celebrity attorneys, but are not even lawyers at all. Everything they file or say doesn’t appear to just be counterproductive, but genuinely crazy.