False alarm!

A New York judge has declined Justin Baldoni’s attempt to depose Taylor Swift late next month amid his enduring legal saga with her former best friend, Blake Lively.

On Friday, Judge Lewis J. Liman approved Lively’s bid to extend discovery to Oct. 10, but denied Baldoni’s attempt to push it a month past the initial Sept. 30 deadline, according to documents obtained by People.

Baldoni’s request, if approved, would have allowed his lawyers to depose the Grammy winner, who allegedly “agreed to appear for deposition,” but only after Oct. 20 due to “preexisting professional obligations,” according to a letter submitted by Baldoni’s team on Thursday.

Per People, a lawyer for the “Bad Blood” singer said in their own letter that day that Swift “did not agree to a deposition,

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