Docket Intel
- Ferrer’s Aug. 17 court filing calls Baldoni’s subpoena bid “harassment” and asks for sanctions.
- Filing alleges Baldoni’s side cited a “phony” case—an apparent AI hallucination—to justify leverage over her subpoena response.
- Judge has recently struck filings in this case for inviting “public speculation and scandal,” underscoring the court’s sensitivity to PR-driven tactics. Justia Law
By Samuel Lopez – USA Herald
An up-and-coming actress pulled into one of Hollywood’s most closely watched legal battles is pushing back. In an Aug. 17 filing, It Ends With Us actor Isabela Ferrer asks a federal judge to reject director-producer Justin Baldoni’s request to serve her by “alternative service” and to sanction him for allegedly using court process as a pressure tactic. In crisp terms, Ferrer calls the motion “yet another attempt … to harass” her and to drag a non-party “deeper into litigation” she has tried to avoid (pg.1).
Why this matters now
The fight over a non-party subpoena sits inside the larger Lively v. Wayfarer war, where Blake Lively accuses Baldoni and Wayfarer allies of sexual harassment and a retaliatory smear campaign—allegations they deny. The court has already shown a willingness to police media-facing tactics: on Aug. 8, the judge struck a filing, finding it served “no proper purpose” and was designed to invite public speculation. Justia Law
Meanwhile, the Wayfarer parties’ $400 million countersuit was dismissed in June (leave to amend only in narrow respects), shaping the terrain on which discovery squabbles now play out. Courthouse News
