United Kingdom, Sept. 13 -- Taylor Swift will not be deposed by Justin Baldoni's legal team.

The It Ends With Us filmmaker had called on the Karma hitmaker to sit for a legal meeting with the Karma singer as part of his ongoing legal battle with Blake Lively - who is suing him and his production company Wayferer Studios for sexual harassment and retaliation - but now the federal judge overseeing the case has declined a request to extend a deadline so that Taylor can sit for a deposition after the release of her The Life of a Showgirl album.

Judge Lewis Liman wrote in a four-page order obtained by Deadline: "The Wayfarer Parties contend that their requested extension is necessary because Swift's preexisting professional obligations now p...