If anyone was under the misimpression that Blake had any factual information connecting these cc to Tag, WF, or Wallace, the withdrawal of apparently every contested subpoena should disabuse them of that notion.

Anonymous wrote:I have been half paying attention to the CC debacle. What do you guys think happened with Hudson here: Ryan and Blake strong-armed her into issuing this subpoeanas, and then realized the backlash wasn't worth it? At the same time, these two are shameless, so I'm surprised they backtracked and I'm wondering what specifically would have caused them to backtrack.

I wonder too. I have always been skeptical of those who think Blake and Ryan (or sometimes just Ryan) run the show and bulldoze the prestigious attorneys, but this is so dumb strategically that I'm like... maybe they were right.

You can sort of see how the attorneys seem embarrassed and try to run away from it and dance around with words. In the email to the creators they say "Please note that the Subpoena seeks subscriber information and does not seek content such as emails, messages, or related information" which really downplays the fact that they are asking for some very intrusive stuff (and it took them 4 days to come up with that verbiage, lol, and after giving people the runaround on the phone).

Then when specifically asked, they default to "blah blah blah untraceable smear campaign" in both the emails and the Hudson letter, never providing any reason why those creators specifically were targeted or why they need such specific information from google. The attorneys have to know this was baseless.

I don't blame Blake for thinking there is an untraceable campaign. Those are Melissa Nathan's words. It's just, I expect the lawyers would have explained "we can't just subpoena every person in the world who spoke badly about you" lol. So I'm really curious how they even came up with the list, if like an intern or someone from Shapiro's office compiled it or what. I had been giving the benefit of the doubt that this was from information unearthed during discovery but they failed to identify anything.

I guess they didn't expect them to fight back?! Which is dumb because these people literally read filings and comment on them as their hobby so of course they would respond.

https://archive.is/U3lLR Blake Lively Fights Back: Exposing Bots, Smears, and the People Hiding Behind Fake Accounts

This random article popped up a few days ago from a weird website I've never heard of (hence using archive link). I imagine this was planted by Blake's PR as a test balloon for bigger articles in bigger outlets but they seem to have reversed course and decided to drop the subpoenas on anyone who protests. Which is really dumb too. They withdrew 5 so there's like 38 left that can still trickle onto the docket and Hudson is going to have to keep posting the same letter mooting it, lmao. They should have quit while they were behind and quietly withdrawn all 3 subpoenas. I am concerned no one has moved to quash the TikTok one yet as apparently TikTok did not send notification emails to the account holders.

Anonymous wrote:Flaa has posted that her subpoena was withdrawn as well. She stated she received an email from her attorney informing her of this.

That is significant, because she's one of the few I thought may have been legitimate given she was referenced in the NYT article.

Another for BL attorneys to tell RE great news! we are right on track!

Did JB attorney file anything to say the Vanzan subpoena never should have happened or is that a trial item and not before?

Flaa has posted that her subpoena was withdrawn as well. She stated she received an email from her attorney informing her of this.

That is significant, because she's one of the few I thought may have been legitimate given she was referenced in the NYT article.

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Anonymous wrote:That Popcorn Planet video where he claims the Manatt secretary "lied" to him was incredibly dumb though.

Also, that woman is just a lowly receptionist being rudely grilled by some guy about stuff she could not possibly know, having it recorded, and then posted to YouTube where she is described as a liar and made fun of. That's not okay. To me, that is as bad as subpoenaing some tiny Tik Toker with 20 followers.

I feel bad for her too, for having a terrible boss who didn't prepare her staff for inevitable and reasonable questions.

Nope. I've worked in a law firm as staff. He was demanding answers to questions that she legally cannot answer. And recording it and spreading it on YouTube. That has nothing to do with he firm failing to "prepare" her for some celeb gossip YouTube personality to use her as a punching bag and then share it all over the internet. He was being an a$$hole.

The whole thing was a stunt and he used someone who makes an hourly wage doing an honest days work to get views online. That's gross. It's like a morning drive talk show calling a school teacher to humiliate her on the radio for kicks. It's punching down.

lol, the Lively bot has lost the plot.

I'm not a "Lively bot." I think people who are defending people like Popcorn Planet, Perez Hilton, and Candace Owens have lost the plot. These people are gross. It's one thing when they are going after Lively, who is wealthy and powerful. This secretary is neither. If you can't see what is wrong with that, I don't know what to tell you. Candace has a theory about Jews and lasers to sell you on, I guess.

Not a bot, but let’s summarize the various professions you’ve claimed: attorney, office staff, intimacy coordinator, fact checker, was there a screen writing claim as well? I’ve lost track.

Isn’t she also Arlington mom? And at one point she worked in news too.

So well rounded!!!

And what do you all do for a living? Still zero responses from anyone on team Baldoni here, dishing it out but not taking it, classy as always. 🤣

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Anonymous wrote:That Popcorn Planet video where he claims the Manatt secretary "lied" to him was incredibly dumb though.

Also, that woman is just a lowly receptionist being rudely grilled by some guy about stuff she could not possibly know, having it recorded, and then posted to YouTube where she is described as a liar and made fun of. That's not okay. To me, that is as bad as subpoenaing some tiny Tik Toker with 20 followers.

I feel bad for her too, for having a terrible boss who didn't prepare her staff for inevitable and reasonable questions.

Nope. I've worked in a law firm as staff. He was demanding answers to questions that she legally cannot answer. And recording it and spreading it on YouTube. That has nothing to do with he firm failing to "prepare" her for some celeb gossip YouTube personality to use her as a punching bag and then share it all over the internet. He was being an a$$hole.

The whole thing was a stunt and he used someone who makes an hourly wage doing an honest days work to get views online. That's gross. It's like a morning drive talk show calling a school teacher to humiliate her on the radio for kicks. It's punching down.

lol, the Lively bot has lost the plot.

I'm not a "Lively bot." I think people who are defending people like Popcorn Planet, Perez Hilton, and Candace Owens have lost the plot. These people are gross. It's one thing when they are going after Lively, who is wealthy and powerful. This secretary is neither. If you can't see what is wrong with that, I don't know what to tell you. Candace has a theory about Jews and lasers to sell you on, I guess.

Not a bot, but let’s summarize the various professions you’ve claimed: attorney, office staff, intimacy coordinator, fact checker, was there a screen writing claim as well? I’ve lost track.

Isn’t she also Arlington mom? And at one point she worked in news too.

So well rounded!!!

It’s really rich how some of you come on and talk about Perez Hilton being “gross” and a grifter when I can show you tons of renowned journalists like Barbara Walters and others who in the early 2000s had absolutely disgusting interview after interview slut shaming young female popstars and actresses asking about their sexual escapades, body shaming them, but for some reason that’s journalism because it’s done on more “respectable” shows.

Newsflash, celebs depend on folks like Perez Hilton and other so-called grifters. They’re in on the grift. Sorry, but to be a celebrity doesn’t mean we just get to read pablum publicist controlled mind numbing articles about how you are over the moon on your pregnancy or tips for date night with your celebrity husband Blake. It also means you are going to get exposed with what a horrible person you are, affairs with married men, your failed, poorly run companies with a history of sexual harassment and mistreatment and your abuse of the crew of pretty much every set you’ve been on.

But to act like Perez Hilton is some bully and the rest of mainstream journalism is not means you’re not a very smart consumer of media.

But either way, I read that Blake is subpoenaing something like 47 content creators. And yet for some reason, only people want single out Candace Owens and Perez Hilton. That’s not the full story, and you know it.

Regardless, this has been a horrible new cycle for Blake.

Imagining BL lawyers at conference table giving case update to BL/RR. If they were to say good news! 3 MTQ from CC are DENIED by judge and separately update withdrew 3 subpoenas after getting what they needed, do people think BL/RR would get they are connected?

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Anonymous wrote:I guess posters on both sides prefer debating who is a bot and what they do IRL, but another content creator has been withdrawn from the subpoena to X, if anyone is interested in this news: https://x.com/kiarajade2001/status/1949196317248376887

Lethal Lauren tweeted that hers has been withdrawn as well but she is still seeking a protective order. It really seems there was no basis for the vast majority of the subpoenas.

Lauren attached some of her emails with Manatt to her motion, she asked some pretty pointed questions and apparently scared them off. https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.nysd.634304/gov.uscourts.nysd.634304.484.0.pdf (starts at pg 53).

(Cue posters saying she is probably withholding Manatt's very credible answers, which is obviously not the case based on Hudson withdrawing the subpoena on anyone who filed a motion).

Is Lauren a lawyer? If that was written without a lawyer… wow! She should just skip law school and take bar!

Anonymous wrote:One content creator is saying Manatt withdrew her subpoena (Astrology with Janessa). She had a lawyer who met with Lively's counsel.

So, yikes, if true, I think they didn't actually have reasons to subpoena these people that would hold up before the court.

(This is based on a YouTube video from the creator, there is nothing in writing confirming).

Doesn't matter if they had reasons or not, it's Liman we're talking about, so they actually would've held up in his court. He would've come up with a roadmap to present to Gottlieb before giving him a nice foot rub.

Blake's team shouldn't have withdrawn the subpoenas. Liman would've found a way to help them get what they need.

I'm glad the CCs are going to fight for sanctions, because it's important on a symbolic level, but Liman isn't going to grant them anything. In fact, he will probably file sanctions against them on Gottlieb's behalf.

I have been half paying attention to the CC debacle. What do you guys think happened with Hudson here: Ryan and Blake strong-armed her into issuing this subpoeanas, and then realized the backlash wasn't worth it? At the same time, these two are shameless, so I'm surprised they backtracked and I'm wondering what specifically would have caused them to backtrack.

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Anonymous wrote:That Popcorn Planet video where he claims the Manatt secretary "lied" to him was incredibly dumb though.

Also, that woman is just a lowly receptionist being rudely grilled by some guy about stuff she could not possibly know, having it recorded, and then posted to YouTube where she is described as a liar and made fun of. That's not okay. To me, that is as bad as subpoenaing some tiny Tik Toker with 20 followers.

I feel bad for her too, for having a terrible boss who didn't prepare her staff for inevitable and reasonable questions.

Nope. I've worked in a law firm as staff. He was demanding answers to questions that she legally cannot answer. And recording it and spreading it on YouTube. That has nothing to do with he firm failing to "prepare" her for some celeb gossip YouTube personality to use her as a punching bag and then share it all over the internet. He was being an a$$hole.

The whole thing was a stunt and he used someone who makes an hourly wage doing an honest days work to get views online. That's gross. It's like a morning drive talk show calling a school teacher to humiliate her on the radio for kicks. It's punching down.

lol, the Lively bot has lost the plot.

I'm not a "Lively bot." I think people who are defending people like Popcorn Planet, Perez Hilton, and Candace Owens have lost the plot. These people are gross. It's one thing when they are going after Lively, who is wealthy and powerful. This secretary is neither. If you can't see what is wrong with that, I don't know what to tell you. Candace has a theory about Jews and lasers to sell you on, I guess.

Not a bot, but let’s summarize the various professions you’ve claimed: attorney, office staff, intimacy coordinator, fact checker, was there a screen writing claim as well? I’ve lost track.

Isn’t she also Arlington mom? And at one point she worked in news too.

Please respond with what you do for a living or shut up on this topic, as requested by multiple posters. Original Baldoni supporter poster of this comment is still hiding instead of responding. Classy.

In reaction to Hudson's letter asking to moot their MTQs entirely, several of the CCs are now planning to file motions for sanctions.

And I'm not saying they will succeed, but good for them not making it easy for Hudson, who keeps digging a deeper and deeper hole that calls more attention to how dumb this was. It would be a mercy to BL's team to just quash the subpoenas in their entirety and let this die (they can re-issue one just for Popcorn Planet if needed).

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Anonymous wrote:That Popcorn Planet video where he claims the Manatt secretary "lied" to him was incredibly dumb though.

Also, that woman is just a lowly receptionist being rudely grilled by some guy about stuff she could not possibly know, having it recorded, and then posted to YouTube where she is described as a liar and made fun of. That's not okay. To me, that is as bad as subpoenaing some tiny Tik Toker with 20 followers.

I feel bad for her too, for having a terrible boss who didn't prepare her staff for inevitable and reasonable questions.

Nope. I've worked in a law firm as staff. He was demanding answers to questions that she legally cannot answer. And recording it and spreading it on YouTube. That has nothing to do with he firm failing to "prepare" her for some celeb gossip YouTube personality to use her as a punching bag and then share it all over the internet. He was being an a$$hole.

The whole thing was a stunt and he used someone who makes an hourly wage doing an honest days work to get views online. That's gross. It's like a morning drive talk show calling a school teacher to humiliate her on the radio for kicks. It's punching down.

lol, the Lively bot has lost the plot.

I'm not a "Lively bot." I think people who are defending people like Popcorn Planet, Perez Hilton, and Candace Owens have lost the plot. These people are gross. It's one thing when they are going after Lively, who is wealthy and powerful. This secretary is neither. If you can't see what is wrong with that, I don't know what to tell you. Candace has a theory about Jews and lasers to sell you on, I guess.

Not a bot, but let’s summarize the various professions you’ve claimed: attorney, office staff, intimacy coordinator, fact checker, was there a screen writing claim as well? I’ve lost track.

Isn’t she also Arlington mom? And at one point she worked in news too.