Washington, Feb. 22 -- Actress Blake Lively has asked for "additional protections" in her ongoing legal battle with Justin Baldoni. As both sides agreed to a protective order (PO), attorneys for the actress and her husband, Ryan Reynolds, submitted a letter to Judge Lewis J. Liman in the Southern District of New York, requesting a stronger PO than the court's "model" one, reported People.

Among their requests for the proposed PO, which they also filed in a separate document, are "an Attorney's Eyes Only ('AEO') category, which applies to 'Confidential Discovery Material of such a highly confidential and personal, sensitive, or proprietary nature that the revelation of such is likely to cause a competitive, business, commercial, financial...