Blake Vigorous requested a choose Friday to shut the door on discovery associated to Taylor Swift in her ongoing authorized battle together with her “It Finish With Us” co-star and director Justin Baldoni.

In a brand new movement, Vigorous’s attorneys requested the choose to dam Baldoni’s legal professionals from acquiring communications between Vigorous and Swift, saying they’re irrelevant to the case.

Baldoni’s legal professionals beforehand subpoenaed Swift and her legal professionals. They dropped the subpoenas final month after Swift’s legal professional objected to an “unwarranted fishing expedition.”

Vigorous’s facet is now searching for to exclude Swift from the dispute as soon as and for all, arguing that Baldoni’s crew has merely used Swift’s title to generate tabloid fodder and not using a professional authorized objective.

Baldoni was hit with a significant setback on Monday, when Choose Lewis Liman dismissed his defamation and extortion swimsuit towards Vigorous and the New York Instances. That swimsuit included some references to Swift, alleging that the pop star had taken Vigorous’s facet in a inventive dispute concerning the film and that Vigorous had as soon as known as the famous person certainly one of her “dragons.”

What’s left of the case is Vigorous’s harassment and retaliation swimsuit towards Baldoni and others at Wayfarer Studios. Vigorous has alleged that Baldoni and his publicists orchestrated a smear marketing campaign towards her after she complained about sexual misconduct on the set of the movie.

“The one allegations on this motion that have been ever remotely related to Ms. Swift have been within the Wayfarer Events’ now dismissed criticism,” wrote Vigorous’s legal professional, Esra Hudson, on Friday. “Ms. Swift isn’t talked about a single time in Ms. Vigorous’s amended criticism.”

Baldoni’s lawyer, Bryan Freedman, beforehand alleged that he had heard from an unnamed supply that Vigorous urged Swift to delete their textual content messages. That allegation was included in a submitting that has since been stricken from the court docket file, after the choose mentioned it was irrelevant to the case.

When Baldoni’s crew dropped the subpoenas of Swift and her lawyer, it was reported that that they had “acquired precisely what they have been searching for” and subsequently didn’t have to pursue the subpoenas.

Vigorous’s facet printed an electronic mail from Swift’s legal professional that appeared to contradict that.

“No paperwork are being produced and no deposition is being scheduled,” wrote the legal professional, Doug Baldridge, in an electronic mail to the legal professionals on the Baldoni-Vigorous case. Baldridge had filed a movement to quash the subpoena, however agreed to drop it as soon as the subpoenas have been withdrawn.

Vigorous’s legal professionals word that if Baldoni’s facet did in truth obtain one thing from Swift’s crew, it hasn’t been turned over to their very own facet.

“The continuing makes an attempt to as soon as once more try to use the world’s largest star as a PR tactic on this matter displays a public unraveling of epic proportions,” a Vigorous spokesperson mentioned, “and serves solely to distract from the truth that Justin Baldoni’s lawsuits towards Ms. Vigorous, Ryan Reynolds, their publicist, and the New York Instances have been completely dismissed.”