Privacy appeal in Britney custody battle
Britney Spears’ lawyer wants to shut off access to documents on her custody battle with ex-husband Kevin Federline over their two young children.
US lawyer Laura Wasser filed a motion last night asking a court in LA to make permanent a conditional July 30 order to make all documents dealing with custody private.
It was filed in response to a motion by a magazine and TV station to release some of the papers.
“This is the perfect instance to stop the madness,” Ms Wasser said in court.
“No one could have contemplated the plethora of media activity.” Commissioner Scott Gordon heard arguments last night, but put off ruling on the issue until a scheduled hearing on Monday.
Representing People magazine and KNBC-TV, lawyer Alonzo Wickers sought to release some documents in the case. He cited a pair of cases that he said show not all family law documents, even those involving child custody, need be kept entirely private.
“No statute says custody-related documents should be broadly sealed,” Wickers said.
Messages left last night for Wasser and Wickers were not immediately returned.
